1. Sign our Petition
(The Campaign/Actions)

...x are able to keep Australians informed without fear of retribution from their corporate managers. Fairfax management must discard its anti-union, WorkChoices agenda and engage with its journalist...

2. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

...ring more than 1500 journalists’ pay and conditions have stalled, leaving their future uncertain. Fairfax management is attempting to silence its journalists by pursuing an old-hat, anti-union age...

3. Richard Glover's Pledge
(The Campaign/Actions)

We, the undersigned, believe the sacking of Mike Carlton is an unjustified and provocative act by Fairfax management. It has long been accepted practice that when staff journalists are on strike, c

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

...k pays himself (and less than what the chief financial officer, Sankar Narayan, pays himself). But Fairfax management’s “plan” for the future is nothing more than a means of stripping value out of ...

5. Email Julia Gillard
(The Campaign/Actions)

... to the Federal Industrial Relations Minister, Julia Gillard and tell her that you think that  Fairfax management is attempting to silence its journalists by pursuing an old-hat, anti-union a...

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

...am slows to a trickle. Many theories were put forward but an emerging consensus was that survival depended on management holding their nerve on quality. To be a player in the future you will have to...

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

...advertising have dried up during the past few years. We've noticed a very different approach among Fairfax management since the merger with Rural Press in 2006. A low cost, low-quality approach app...

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

Fairfax management announced today it had increased the minimum number of staff to be made redundant by 50 per cent and admitted that it is targeting all staff, including subeditors, reporters, design

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

Dear Fairfax member, Members of your union’s negotiating team met with Fairfax management earlier today, following a request from the company. Ruth Pollard, Gerard Noonan, Chris Warren

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

...ses alone - from $1.5 million in 2006 to $2.2 million in 2007. Ms Burrow said it was disturbing that senior management of Australian corporations like Fairfax, Qantas and Telstra were pushing for bi...

11. Holding Fire On Picket Lines At Printers
(The Campaign/Actions)

...and Wollongong are ongoing. There have been two significant developments today that again illustrate Fairfax management’s attempt to intimidate staff fighting to uphold quality journalism. First, ...

12. Australian staffers express their support
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

The Alliance chapter at The Australian offices in Sydney deeply regrets the management action at Fairfax Media that has left so many journalists in distress. Media Alliance members at The Australian

13. British Journalists: Be Strong. Be Proud. Be Victorious
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...ou we are facing an industry that puts the interests of shareholders before those of its readers and axes not management waste but frontline journalists. You have our full and active support. Please l...

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

...rough the PR barrier to get to the real story. We particularly note and condemn the lack of respect Fairfax management has shown for experience and the skills of sub-editors, indicating a basic lack...

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

...age was done. Members here are appalled to have learned of the jobs cuts from other media. We're appalled our management has not yet held staff meetings. When I challenged our GM as to why the company...

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

...b down” the newspapers and make complex, edgy, political stories harder to publish. The failure of Fairfax management to present a decent, revised offer for the editorial staff’s collective agreeme...

17. Fairfax directors’ $22 million dividend
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... 90% from $2.1 million to $4 million. In those same years, the board has watched the remuneration of its “key management personnel” jump 234% from $1.35 million to $4.51 million. Inflation in that tim...

18. Media Report: The axe falls at Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

Five hundred and fifty staff at Fairfax are to go in a major restructure. Management said they were largely immune from the global newspaper downturn, but has the reality of falling circulation and ad

19. SMH owner Fairfax Media to cut 550 jobs
(The Campaign/In The News)

...a cost-cutting programme to reduce its workforce by 5%. Shocked journalists held a stop-work meeting after management told staff via email of the cuts, which will see 180 journalists lose their jo...

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

...ll do my best!   We are working in times of tremendous economic uncertainty.  Therefore, our management ability and judgement need to maximise every opportunity presented at all our ...

21. Papers must return to core business
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax was not the only newspaper company - at which senior management and the company board, invariably, contained not a single person with newspaper experience - to junk the history and the tradi

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

...and support with our colleagues at Fairfax in their fight for jobs and journalists' rights.  The Fairfax management, like many others faced with the challenges of change in our industry, are adop...

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

...evel of journalism resources"? How will Kirk, McCarthy and co. demonstrate that Fairfax Media's senior management understands what is at stake, given that former editor of The Age Michael Gawen...

24. The axe falls at Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

Five hundred and fifty staff at Fairfax are to go in a major restructure. Management said they were largely immune from the global newspaper downturn, but has the reality of falling circulation and

25. Kirk: Former Fairfax editors 'poisonous' and 'Chicken Littles'
(The Campaign/In The News)

...r Kirk said that if Michael Gawenda, who edited The Age between 1997 and 2004 and sharply criticised Fairfax management last week, was running the company "there would be many more staff cuts&q...

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

SPECULATION is growing that likely new Fairfax Media chief executive Brian McCarthy could restructure senior management. It is likely he will elevate more former key Rural Press executives to top po

27. Ex-Fairfax editor lashes old bosses
(The Campaign/In The News)

...e in Fairfax Media's newspaper. In a speech last week, Gawenda talked of a dysfunctional relationship between management and journalists. Read more ...

28. Former editor decries 'chilling' job cuts
(The Campaign/In The News)

A FORMER editor-in-chief of The Age, Michael Gawenda, has criticised the newspaper's management for a "slash and burn" response to declining advertising revenue and described cuts to edito

29. 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

30. B-grade managers and trash content
(The Campaign/In The News)

...dly avoid lamenting the present and the past before moving on to the future. Thus it was that media company management, and the management of Fairfax in particular, came in for a kicking. Ivor Ri...