1. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

...m interference by big business. Fair Go Fairfax is the official campaign site for working journalists and editorial staff at print publications and websites including The Sydney Morning Herald, The...

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

...d I think they were in the case of Knight Ridder. There's a tendency over time with public ownership for the editorial presence in the corridors of power to decline.'' Mr. Appert of Goldman Sachs s...

3. 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

4. Redundancies: Full Picture Revealed
(The Campaign/In The News)

...nd the Sun-Herald. It is impossible to remove so many experienced, dedicated and talented staff from Fairfax editorial without cutting deep into the quality of journalism. This goes well beyond the co...

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

Dear Fairfax member, Members of your union’s negotiating team met with Fairfax management earlier today, following a request from the company. Ruth Pollard, Gerard Noonan, Chris Warren

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

...y’s long-term viability, says the ACTU. The decision that up to a third of those job cuts will come from the editorial departments of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will not only hurt the worke...

7. British Journalists: Be Strong. Be Proud. Be Victorious
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...l Union of Journalists in the UK and Ireland we send you solidarity and support for your fight to defend the editorial integrity and quality of your papers. It is not possible to cut 550 jobs and no...

8. Sydney Rally AM Friday
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Footage from the Sydney rally is now available. Media Alliance federal secretary, Christopher Warren, federal president, Patricia Amphlett and Media section president, Ruth Pollard address journalists

9. Enterprise Agreement Breakthrough
(The Campaign/Editorial)

After a significant breakthrough in the enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations we are returning to work tomorrow as we had originally resolved to do. There will be a formal proposal to vote la

10. Welcome back to work!
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Last Thursday you resolved to walk out together. Today, keeping your word, you came back to work together. Congratulations on your solidarity and fortitude over the past four days – it was a mighty

11. Just the facts
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax has launched its own web site to respond to Fair Go Fairfax. Go and read their announcements at http://fairfaxjustthefacts.com.au/justthefacts/ We’ve suggested they link here from their

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

... 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 would no longer be writing for the newspaper as a re...

13. Staff continue the battle
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Meetings of Fairfax staff yesterday involved people from all parts of the business - editorial, advertising, online and administration - who came together to protest against the staff cuts announced e

14. Fairfax directors’ $22 million dividend
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...like The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will be fighting to produce quality journalism after 14% of their editorial staff have been sacked. So what could the directors buy for their $22 million? ...

15. Secrecy surrounded establishment of Fairfax 'sub hub'
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media has begun its experiment of outsourcing part of the editorial production of its flagship Sydney and Melbourne newspapers, days after the move was announced as part of a redundancy progra

16. 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

17. Age Independence Committee writes to Kirk, Walker
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...annot exist without the other. You maintain the cuts won’t affect quality. How can any disruption to proper editorial balance fail to put in jeopardy the vital teamwork and expertise that has, over ...

18. The stockbroker's view
(The Campaign/In The News)

...t The Facts web site. In it, the broking firm writes that Fairfax had indicated that "the staff cuts in editorial will not affect the quality of its newspapers" and "the staff cuts in i...

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

...ce again was unable to explain how he will guarantee that quality journalism can be maintained after cutting editorial staff by 14%. He defended his massive pay rise by saying it was commensurate on h...

20. Sunday Age clings to "hope"
(The Campaign/In The News)

Fairfax Media plans to cut up to 14% of the editorial staff from its metro daily newspapers. One of the affected papers, The Sunday Age, notes that sub-editors' jobs are among some of those to be lost

21. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...hile, the redundancies are ripping the heart out of Fairfax newspapers. Of the 550 jobs to be lost, 120 editorial positions will be culled from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and The A...

22. 14% staff cut 'increased commitment to quality'
(The Campaign/In The News)

The redundancies announced at The Sydney Morning Herald will reduce up to 12% of the newspaper's editorial staff. The redundancies at The Age translate to a loss of up to 14% of editorial staff. But t

23. Fairfax CEO Kirk reluctant to speak to staff
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ng members of a think tank rather than speaking personally to Fairfax employees has not been lost on those editorial staff considering taking redundancy, or those from other departments who have be...

24. The Age has refused to let some senior journos go
(The Campaign/In The News)

... go, but were refused. This was revealed after Fairfax puts away the axe after slashing more than 100 editorial staff from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Read more ...

25. Fairfax annual general meeting - November 13
(The Campaign/Editorial)

The Fairfax Media annual general meeting will be held at 10.30am on Thursday, November 13 at Crown Casino in Melbourne. There are three items to be voted on: adopting the accounts, approving the remun

26. 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 ti

27. Australian Nursing Federation
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...nd support to the Media Alliance in the current Fair Go Fairfax campaign as you lead working journalists and editorial staff in fighting for their rights.We condemn the WorkChoices-style tactics Fairf...

28. Sacked Age editor says: Take this job and ...
(The Campaign/In The News)

...a "business improvement program". Under that program, between 11% and 14% of the two newspapers' editorial staff will be made redundant. Read more ...

29. How, now, David Kirk
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...co. guarantee that there will not be a decline in quality journalism when there will be a loss of 14% of the editorial staff of the metro daily newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne? How will Kirk, McC...

30. Britain's journalists campaigning for quality journalism
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... have already pledged their support for the Fair Go, Fairfax! campaign. See how the NUJ, representing 39,000 editorial workers in the UK and Ireland, has joined the fight for quality journalism and wh...