ABC News Director Justin Stevens has taken the extraordinary move to attempt to kill off journalism critical of his organisation in a letter to his media rivals.

Mr Stevens, who received a taxpayer-funded salary of over $500,000 a year in the last financial year, spent time in his official role writing a lengthy letter attacking a critic of his organisation.

In a letter to News Corp Australia Executive Chair Michael Miller, Sky News Australia CEO Paul Whittaker and Editor in Chief of The Australian Michelle Gunn, Mr Stevens said the recent journalism of Sky News host Chris Kenny had been a "disgrace."

Kenny had written in The Australian last week, and spoke on Sky News Australia, about ABC correspondent Matthew Doran.

Mr Doran was the subject of a video by Rebel News' Avi Yemini, who a

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