1. Sign our Petition
(The Campaign/Actions)

...s, sub-editors, photographers, artists, designers and web producers have had their wages frozen soon after executive managers were rewarded with a 45 per cent increase in bonuses alone - from $1.5 ...

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

... for all their staff (they are currently offering between 4% and 4.5%) is less than the pay rise the top 7 executives got in the 2006-07 financial year – based on reasonable assumptions drawn from ...

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

...ality journalism to flourish. With some exceptions, the bland, faceless management types who infested the executive hall did not come in to work fired up by the news of the day or the big story unf...

4. 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

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

...f cost-cutting. It now says 60 to 70 positions are to be made redundant, contrary to claims by Fairfax chief executive officer David Kirk that these cuts will not affect the quality of the Sydney Morn...

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

... news that the company would wipe $50million off its wages bill. Shares rose 5 per cent on the back of chief executive David Kirk's announcement. But, as I write this, the price is back in the dumps: ...

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

...o 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 and the company’s long-term viability, sa...

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

...rld, with several of its weekly sections to be processed in suburban Sydney. The move comes after Telegraph executives visited the headquarters of Fairfax Media, publisher of the Herald, last year. ...

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

...ntify specific editorial areas where jobs would be lost.   Also on August 26 Don Churchill, chief executive and publisher - Victorian metropolitan and community publishing, told Media Alli...

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

... the editorial staff of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. This time around will any Fairfax senior executives be paid golden handcuffs to help the new CEO settle in at Fairfax? ...

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

...on Speakers Bureau) will again avoid speaking to Fairfax employees. "Next Tuesday, David Kirk, chief executive of Fairfax Media, owner of The Age, will give a speech at the Sydney Institute e...

13. Crikey: Secret Fairfax share scheme key to slash and burn
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... exposed at Fairfax and sheds new light on the recent frenzy of cost cutting at the company. While Fairfax executives have claimed that the sacking of 550 staff is unavoidable, due to a decline in ...

14. 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

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

...in February. Insiders said the board meeting yesterday afternoon was convened to allow the company's non-executive directors to discuss the operational performance of Fairfax, which owns The Sydn...

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

...d Melbourne's The Age newspapers struggling under a $2.5 billion debt burden clocked up under former chief executive David Kirk. Read more ...

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

...es his abrupt sacking during a strike by journalists last week. The Workplace Ombudsman has summoned Fairfax executives to a meeting in Sydney today at which Carlton's dismissal will be raised during ...

18. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...is earning $1.4 million (and that's up from $1.25 million in 2007). Indeed, the five highest paid Fairfax executives received $6.3 million in 2008. At board level, the story is the same. Fa...

19. Citizen McCarthy swings Fairfax axe
(The Campaign/In The News)

On Tuesday, using the Orwellian title "Business Improvement Program," Fairfax chief executive David Kirk and deputy Brian McCarthy said they would cut 550 jobs to save $50 million a year.

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

...ccounts, approving the remuneration report (which saw the Fairfax directors and just five of the company's executives receive  $11.67 million in the year to June 30), and re-electing director ...

21. 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

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

... administration - who came together to protest against the staff cuts announced earlier in the week. Fairfax executives are pursuing a vicious cycle of cuts that risks doing serious long-term damage t...

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

...ording to the company web site (http://fairfaxjustthefacts.com.au/justthefacts/) David Kirk and other senior executives have made at least 12 public guarantees that the 550 redundancies announced by t...

24. New Fairfax CEO to be decided next week
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media chairman Ron Walker says that former Rural Press executive Brian McCarthy is interim CEO of the media group "until the Board meets next Wednesday, 10 December 2008".

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

...ically reinventing their businesses, a leading international media consultant warned Australian publishing executives this week. The admonition comes a fortnight after Fairfax Media announced it in...

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

...ing Herald and The Age, according to staff who yesterday rejected a company plan to shed 550 jobs. Chief executive David Kirk and his deputy, Brian McCarthy, told the Australian Stock Exchange an...

27. Kirk resigns
(The Campaign/Editorial)

David Kirk has stepped down as chief executive of Fairfax Media, effective immediately. "During his more than three years in the role, David has been an outstanding CEO of Fairfax Media,&quot

28. Ron Walker's message to Fairfax staff
(The Campaign/In The News)

...sitioning of Fairfax Media for continued success in the future. I express my sincere appreciation to my executive management team, who have been outstanding.  I leave with the strongest prid...

29. Kirk departs, victim of troubled times
(The Campaign/Editorial)

EIGHT days ago Fairfax Media's chief executive, David Kirk, flew to Melbourne to reassure staff that despite a plummeting share price and shuddering global economy, his plans for the company were wo

30. Kirk finally talks to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Three months after the editorial staff first called on Fairfax Media chief executive officer David Kirk to address employees on the tumultuous changes at the company, the Fairfax senior management tea