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

...t matter, the value of advertising in the SMH, Age, Canberra Times, the AFR and all Fairfax’s other superb mastheads is enhanced by the fact that advertisers know they are getting more bang for the...

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

...e-goers, not unaware of the burgeoning influence of the 24-hour online news services, many of them under the mastheads of existing newspapers, saw that traditional media was at a watershed. Unfortun...

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

... I shall work tirelessly to make the company even more successful. As you all know, Fairfax Media has great mastheads, websites, printing centres, radio stations, events and market strength – and mos...

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

...the company's rostering plans announced today, subeditors will bear an unfair burden of having to staff both mastheads with less people and being forced to work five out of every six weekends, destroy...

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

... - about 5 per cent of the workforce - including more than 120 journalists from the group's most prestigious mastheads, The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's The Age. He believes, as I do, that...

6. 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

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

...ping expose corruption and holding the powerful to account  “Fairfax staff are passionate about their mastheads and their readers, and it’s disappointing that the company’s managers want to sac...

8. Media Alliance alert: Company threat to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ted by this. Consider how a major media company locking out its own professional staff on its flagship metro mastheads will play out in the public arena. All members are to meet outside their wo...

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

...of the official announcement, that FFX NZ would be restructuring its sub-editing teams - cutting jobs at its mastheads and creating "centres of expertise" - sub hubs to produce world, busine...

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

...s the actions of journalists at Fairfax who are fighting to retain adequate staffing and conditions at their mastheads. Alliance members at HWT recognise that professional journalism and healthy com...

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

...been outstanding.  I leave with the strongest pride in the quality and integrity of journalism and our mastheads and media assets, in print, online and on-air, throughout Australia and New Ze...

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

...ld, etc). So the impact of the personnel cuts and resulting questions and perceptions mostly affects those mastheads rather hitting Fairfax Media directly. However, given that the market value of F...

13. Fairfax papers suffer ad loss
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ian Guerra released research yesterday that showed classified page volumes across all Fairfax metropolitan mastheads were down 13 per cent in July on the same time last year, followed by a 19 per c...

14. Fairfax ruined by incompetence - mastheads trashed
(The Campaign/In The News)

...running a newspaper company. Editors with no control over their papers' websites who have allowed their own mastheads to be "trashed" online." Read more ...

15. Fairfax cutbacks chilling: ex-editor
(The Campaign/In The News)

...n path". Mr Gawenda also said that Fairfax's practice of having the websites of its main metropolitan mastheads at odds with what those newspapers have traditionally stood for was a recipe for...

16. 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

17. Interim CEO McCarthy's message to staff
(The Campaign/In The News)

... I want you to know you have my full support in this period of transition.  Fairfax Media has great mastheads, websites, printing centres, radio stations – and most importantly, a committed ...

18. Ad downturn continues to hit Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

The holiday period has taken its toll on publisher Fairfax Media Ltd's metropolitan mastheads over December, with advertising volumes falling. Fairfax, like all newspaper publishers, is feeling the