1. 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...

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

...s floor was whether we could fudge some more pages so that the story could be brought to the readers. For the executives, the tsunami was a disaster for their nice bonuses that relied on cutting costs...

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

...teresting to note there has been no corresponding fall in executive remuneration. Between them, the top seven executives at Fairfax earn more than $4.5million. That's more than the Rudd Government's 3...

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

...to 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, s...

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

...n 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...

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

...d 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 ...

7. 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. F...

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

...ies 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...

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

...ir 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 &quo...

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

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

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

...accounts, 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...

12. New CEO's message to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ead of Australian Publishing and Printing for Fairfax in mid 2007.  I shall meet with the senior executives and discuss the businesses and the operations, and then put in place the organ...

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

...cording 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 ...

14. 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

15. 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

16. Executive pay packets under fire
(The Campaign/In The News)

As the annual general meeting season for Australia’s public companies gets underway, executives and directors are bracing for a barrage of criticism from angry investors over high pay and bonuses. W

17. Mastheads Down
(The Campaign/In The News)

WHEN big companies are hit by economic downturns, the common refrain of executives who run them is that the remedy lies in returning to core business. Ventures outside a company's main interests tha

18. Rural Press faction takes over Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...rian McCarthy could restructure senior management. It is likely he will elevate more former key Rural Press executives to top positions in the Fairfax group. It is understood Mr McCarthy will be f...

19. 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

20. Falloon joins Kirk in pay bonanza
(The Campaign/In The News)

...Nick Falloon, has pocketed a 70 per cent pay increase for 2007-08, making him one of the highest paid media executives, as the broadcaster's earnings fell 25 per cent because of weaker ratings and ...

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

...f 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? ...