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. 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

6. 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 ...

7. 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...

8. 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

9. 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...

10. 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

11. 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...

12. 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...

13. 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

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

...he lead of their foreign counterparts and begin slashing the value of assets such as broadcast licences and newspapers. With traditional media being hit by a collapsing economy and competition from ...

15. 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...

16. 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

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

...now assistant news editor at MediaGuardian.co.uk; and Professor Phillip Meyer, the author of The Vanishing Newspaper -  will be among a stellar line-up of speakers when the Alliance hosts its ...

18. Fairfax board meets... but without Kirk
(The Campaign/In The News)

...al performance of Fairfax, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's The Age and The Sunday Age newspapers. One source said: "Often boards meet without executive directors. It all...

19. Berlusconi picks up Fairfax asset
(The Campaign/In The News)

... of moves by Fairfax to pay down debt, with the owner of The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's The Age newspapers struggling under a $2.5 billion debt burden clocked up under former chief execu...

20. 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...

21. 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. ...

22. 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...

23. 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...

24. 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...

25. 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...

26. Herald Sun takes out newspaper honours
(The Campaign/In The News)

"Yet again, these awards prove newspaper journalism is the best journalism." Read the report in The Age

27. 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...

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

...e 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, McCarthy and co. ensure that quality w...

29. 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

30. Fairfax sheds 550 jobs and quality journalism
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media is abandoning quality journalism at its flagship newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, according to staff who yesterday rejected a company plan to shed 550 jobs. Chief