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

...n. We hope this matter will be sensibly resolved, so that we can all continue working for Australia’s best newspapers. Yours truly, Richard Glover Columnist Spectrum The Sydney Morning Her...

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

... to be better. Here’s what Philip Meyer, Knight Professor of Journalism and author of The Vanishing Newspaper has to say about the economics of quality journalism: A newspaper produces...

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

...y Foundation organised a two-day seminar on the future of journalism. Much of the time was spent asking, “Do newspapers have a future?” Clearly, conference-goers, not unaware of the burgeoning influen...

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

...e's The Age. He believes, as I do, that the job cuts inevitably will lead to a loss of quality at Fairfax newspapers when quality has never been so important. Until now, Australia largely has be...

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

...550 jobs just a week after it announced a 47% increase in profit to a record $387 million. “Staff at these newspapers work hard to inform the public and report Australia's news.  “Quality jou...

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

...ction. Entries from these members will be accepted until 5pm on Wednesday, September 3. Fairfax Community Newspapers are circulating a petition in support of their metropolitan colleagues who are o...

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

...onsultation regarding the redundancies and the impact they stand to have on staff and the quality of Fairfax newspapers, websites and magazines. We believe it is vital for the company and the Allia...

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

... current strike by journalists and editorial staff. He was told that he would no longer be writing for the newspaper as a result. On the 702 Drive show, Richard Glover spoke to Alan Oakley Editor ...

9. We're right behind you say Murdoch journos
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...has shown for experience and the skills of sub-editors, indicating a basic lack of understanding on how good newspapers operate. We also condemn the public talking down of the quality and profitabil...

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

...at our workplace last year, we've been awaiting the axe or at least the pruning shears. On June 30 Fairfax newspapers around NZ held emergency staff meetings after a story was accidentally put up on...

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

...helmingly to stop work immediately until Monday. The strike will affect the company's two biggest-selling newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Melbourne. Media Entertainment and A...

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

...se legal team at the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald is seen as a deliberate attempt to “dumb down” the newspapers and make complex, edgy, political stories harder to publish. The failure of F...

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

...rfax 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 Financial Review. The jou...

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

... rebuild their lives, how to pay the mortgage and other bills. And their colleagues who remain at Fairfax newspapers like The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will be fighting to produce quality j...

15. Media Report: The axe falls at Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

... staff at Fairfax are to go in a major restructure. Management said they were largely immune from the global newspaper downturn, but has the reality of falling circulation and advertising income final...

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

...as 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 program for 165 local...

17. 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

18. Planned Action Today
(The Campaign/Actions)

...darity and meet your favourite writers. Wollongong - Illawarra Mercury journalists will rally outside the newspaper building at 9.00am on Sunday following the success of today's protest. Watch this...

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

... writes that Fairfax had indicated that "the staff cuts in editorial will not affect the quality of its newspapers" and "the staff cuts in its Australian metro newspapers will not affec...

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)

...sp; $11.67 million.    Meanwhile, 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 Syd...

22. Fairfax pushed to reinstate Mike Carlton
(The Campaign/In The News)

...dney today at which Carlton's dismissal will be raised during a review of industrial action at the company's newspapers. Read full story. ...

23. PM wants quality journalism to continue
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...increasingly digitalised media landscape. Media bosses met on the Gold Coast for the PANPA08 (Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association) conference on Tuesday, to discuss ways forward in the c...

24. 300 plus - readers demand Carlton's reinstatement
(The Campaign/In The News)

PRESSURE is building inside Fairfax Media to reinstate high-profile columnist Mike Carlton as its flagship newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald is flooded with letters from readers protesting about his

25. Sackings could kill papers, expert warns
(The Campaign/In The News)

NEWSPAPER companies risk dying "a death of a thousand cuts" if they fire staff en masse without drastically reinventing their businesses, a leading international media consultant warned A

26. 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

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

Since their August 26 e-mail to staff announcing 550 redundancies, Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk (who is paid $3.41 million) and Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy (who is paid $2.43 million) have refused to me

28. Fairfax attacks rival over bad news
(The Campaign/In The News)

...an for special attack over his company's sacking of 550 staff and a strike by angry journalists, blaming the newspaper for "a lot of bad PR". Asked if he accepted any responsibility for the...

29. Fairfax's finest line up to leave SMH
(The Campaign/In The News)

SOME of the longest-serving reporters at Fairfax Media's Sydney flagship newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald, will be told from today whether their applications to be made redundant have been appr

30. Low-quality journalism erodes the Fairfax brands
(The Campaign/In The News)

...crutiny and lower quality information, which in turn could lead to a loss of trust in the integrity of the newspapers. The ripple effects of that loss of trust have the potential to affect every as...