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. 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

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. 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

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

...rfax has outsourced some of its sections to a Pagemasters production hub in Brisbane after cutting about 70 editorial jobs from the Sydney Morning Herald since August, mostly in the subediting area....

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

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

...e to lose their jobs in order to cut $50 million in costs. Neither Kirk nor McCarthy could identify specific editorial areas where jobs would be lost.   Also on August 26 Don Churchill, chi...

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

...f at least six top quality journalists - but instead Fairfax made 550 people redundant, including 15% of the editorial staff of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. This time around will any Fa...

17. 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

18. 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...

19. Future of Journalism summit in Melbourne
(The Campaign/Editorial)

A host of local and international speakers - including the Pulitzer Prize-winning executive director of Washington’s J-Lab Institute, Jan Shaffer; Stephen Brook, formerly of The Australian, now assi

20. 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...

21. 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

22. 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? ...

23. 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...

24. 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

25. $3.4 million Kirk talks of belt-tightening
(The Campaign/Editorial)

David Kirk, Fairfax Media's $3.4 million man, saw his pay jump 23.8% in 2008. He is now paid more than 10 Australian prime ministers. And on August 26 he and Brian McCarthy announced that 550 people w

26. 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

27. 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

28. Kirk of 1138 Days
(The Campaign/Editorial)

It's common management practice these days for senior executives to "walk the floor". Essentially, that means being visible in the business, literally walking around the office, speaking to

29. 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...

30. 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