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. 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: ...

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. 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...

7. 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.

8. 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 ...

9. 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...

10. 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...

11. 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 ...

12. Fairfax shares hit new 12-month low
(The Campaign/In The News)

...r value of rights to shares" granted to Mr McCarthy came to $280,000, while a number of other Fairfax executives received similar boosts. Fairfax's annual report notes that as part of its &quot...

13. David Kirk's $5 million mix-up
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media's chief executive, David Kirk, has taken more than a year to disclose some share purchases worth millions of dollars following a mix-up in communication over who had to inform the mark

14. Fairfax sacks lawyers, 'timid journalism' fear
(The Campaign/In The News)

... more timid journalism, by a company now transfixed by the ruthless cost-cutting mentality of deputy chief executive Brian McCarthy, whose past record at Rural Press is well known. Read more ...

15. 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...

16. 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...

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

...be told from today whether their applications to be made redundant have been approved. Yesterday, the chief executive of Fairfax's NSW and ACT metropolitan newspapers, Lloyd Whish-Wilson, said in a...

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

FAIRFAX Media chief executive David Kirk has singled out The Australian for special attack over his company's sacking of 550 staff and a strike by angry journalists, blaming the newspaper for "a

19. Kirk speech fails to impress - Rudd targets exec pay
(The Campaign/In The News)

...deserve such a price savaging, a collapse that began long before the current financial crisis. Speaking of executive pay: "Exorbitant executive salaries may get a trim under a Federal Governme...

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. 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

22. IFJ Letter of Support
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

On behalf of the International Federation of Journalists, its Executive Committee and our members all around the world, I am proud to declare our solidarity and support with our colleagues at Fairfax

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

... he was abruptly removed as editor-in-chief of The Age and The Sunday Age on August 27, the day after chief executive David Kirk announced a "business improvement program". Under that prog...

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

...sports journalist Jacqueline Magnay, flagship colour writer Tony Stephens, soccer writer Michael Cockerill, executive editor Sam North, sports managing editor Rod Allen and 35-year Herald science re...

25. Martin hits out at Fairfax cut-backs
(The Campaign/In The News)

...airfax Media, owner of The Age, of abandoning serious journalism... "How does David Kirk (Fairfax chief executive) seriously believe he can get rid of 550 jobs and maintain Fairfax's excellence?...

26. 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...

27. Reality of retrenchments
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ng to look after the shareholders; the personal bonuses are just the icing on the cake. It's not the chief executive's fault that we're heading for recession now, is it? He or she is just trying to...

28. Record pay for Fairfax bosses as jobs axed
(The Campaign/In The News)

THE two top executives at Fairfax Media, David Kirk and Brian McCarthy - the architects of a program to cut 550 jobs - earned record pay for the year to June. Fairfax chief executive officer Mr Ki

29. 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...

30. Chairman Walker takes to the air - first class
(The Campaign/In The News)

The [Qantas A380] plane has also had to pass what Qantas executives called "the Ron Walker test". "Our indigenous Wunala Dreaming plane was one of the first that had the lay-flat bed