1. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

...eliver information to the public free from interference by big business. Fair Go Fairfax is the official campaign site for working journalists and editorial staff at print publications and websites...

2. Sign our Petition
(The Campaign/Actions)

I support the working journalists at Fairfax publications and websites, who are threatened by the big business agenda of its corporate managers. It is fundamentally unfair that Fairfax reporters,

3. Campaign Contacts
(The Campaign/About Us)

Campaign Claire O'Rourke Industrial Organiser, Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance Em: claire.orourke@alliance.org.au Ph: 02 9333 0935 Mb: 0412 984 925 Media Inquiries Mike Do

4. Richard Glover's Pledge
(The Campaign/Actions)

We, the undersigned, believe the sacking of Mike Carlton is an unjustified and provocative act by Fairfax management. It has long been accepted practice that when staff journalists are on strike, c

5. Executive Salaries: A study
(The Campaign/Editorial)

The cost of maintaining the real wages of the top quarter of their journalists, who are currently not being offered any pay rise, is currently less than half what Fairfax CEO David Kirk pays himself (

6. Fair Go, Fairfax: Don't discount journalism
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... part of the Fairfax stable, The Age had its own proud history. Under the ownership of David Syme, it was a campaigner for self-government, a fairer distribution of land and encouragement of local ind...

7. New CEO's message to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Good Afternoon. Yesterday, I was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Media Limited.  It is an honour to lead such an outstanding media company, and I shall work tirelessly to make

8. Fairfax journos quiz Kirk's pay rise
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media journalists took the fight for quality journalism up to CEO David Kirk yesterday, asking why he was rewarding himself with a 23.8% pay rise to $3.41 million - the equivalent of 10 prime

9. Mike Carlton sacked for refusing to file column
(The Campaign/In The News)

RADIO broadcaster and Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton has been sacked for refusing to write his weekly column during a strike. Read more.

10. Fairfax cuts spell decline of excellence
(The Campaign/Editorial)

"Influential journalism requires an investment." These words, published in this paper yesterday by former editor and long-time media watcher Mark Day, have never rung more true than in the p

11. The Thin Black Line
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

Saturday 30th August is the ninth anniversary of the independence ballot in East Timor. Fairfax journalists were at the forefront of covering the events of those turbulent, dangerous and unforgettable

12. Who is Brian McCarthy?
(The Campaign/Editorial)

"Brian McCarthy detests publicity... Perched on a smallish table in front of an 1879 portrait of David Syme in the Spencer Street building that houses (The Age), McCarthy adjusted his tie as if

13. Richard Glover interviews Alan Oakley
(The Campaign/In The News)

Sources have told the ABC that Mr Carlton refused to write his regular column for the paper's Saturday edition, because of the current strike by journalists and editorial staff. He was told that he

14. Sunrise Ruth Pollard interview
(The Campaign/In The News)

Media Alliance president, Ruth Pollard, made an appearance on behalf of members on the popular breakfast program, Sunrise. View the full version by clicking read more. 

15. ACTU: Fairfax job cuts go too far
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

 This week’s announcement of plans to cut 550 jobs at Fairfax Media is another worrying case of a short-sighted push for profits by bonus-driven executives at the expense of people’s livelihoods

16. Media Alliance alert: Company threat to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... people’s homes threatening to lock out. This is an attempt by the company to intimidate you and weaken our campaign. Remember the sort of lock out threatened is unlawful action and we have set ...

17. Richard Glover: I won't cross electronic picket line
(The Campaign/In The News)

Stalwart Alliance member and SMH columnist, Richard Glover, yesterday invited Herald editor, Alan Oakley on to his drivetime radio show on Sydney’s 2BL 702. Oakley was silly enough to agree. He got

18. Pagemasters grabs UK Telegraph pages
(The Campaign/In The News)

LONDON newspaper The Daily Telegraph has outsourced some of its production work to the other end of the world, with several of its weekly sections to be processed in suburban Sydney. The move comes

19. Australian staffers express their support
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

The Alliance chapter at The Australian offices in Sydney deeply regrets the management action at Fairfax Media that has left so many journalists in distress. Media Alliance members at The Australian

20. NZ EPMU: Letter of Support
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

I'm lead delegate at the Taranaki Daily News in Fairfax's New Zealand stable. I learned of the job cuts on the midday news and had them confirmed by reading an AAP story on Fairfax's own NZ Stuff webs

21. Holding Fire On Picket Lines At Printers
(The Campaign/Actions)

...ent and the corporate sector in the interests of democracy”. Tell your friends, and colleagues about the campaign – remember it’s easy for them to join your union at www.alliance.org.au or by phoni...

22. Enterprise Agreement Breakthrough
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...he King Street entrance for the 9am starters. Meanwhile the “Fair Go, Fairfax – Don’t discount journalism” campaign continues. ...

23. Fairfax Members Vote To Strike
(The Campaign/Actions)

... the latter country bearing the brunts of the cuts, with 160 full-time employees losing their jobs. A new campaign, Fair Go, Fairfax: Don't discount journalism, was launched by the Media Alliance&nb...

24. Fairfax newspaper production to be outsourced
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media will outsource much of its editorial production function for its flagship Sydney and Melbourne newspapers to an offshoot of news agency Australian Associated Press, as part of a radical

25. Fairfax flack Bruce Wolpe turns up in Denver
(The Campaign/In The News)

As Fairfax Media faced its biggest crisis since the disastrous takeover of the company by Warwick Fairfax two decades ago, its corporate affairs chief Bruce Wolpe was thousands of kilometres away in D

26. Kirk's diktat versus a bottom-up process
(The Campaign/Editorial)

In his speech to the Sydney Institute tonight, Fairfax Media's $3.4 million CEO David Kirk underlines why he does not understand that quality journalism at Fairfax Media is threatened. "The publi

27. Media mayhem likely
(The Campaign/In The News)

AUSTRALIAN media companies may be poised to follow the lead of their foreign counterparts and begin slashing the value of assets such as broadcast licences and newspapers. With traditional media bei

28. ABC PM: Fairfax standing ground over journalist strike
(The Campaign/In The News)

Journalists at the Fairfax Group face an uncertain future after the company maintained it would use strike-breakers to publish its newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Fin

29. More golden handcuffs?
(The Campaign/Editorial)

According to the Fairfax Media remuneration report, when David Kirk was appointed CEO in 2005 (just after the board had paid a $4.5 million bonus to see his predecessor Fred Hilmer out the door), bo

30. Kirk insults staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk, like his fellow McKinsey consultancy predecessor Fred Hilmer, walked into the job with no experience in the media industry. But then, virtually no one on the Fairfax boar