1. Sign our Petition
(The Campaign/Actions)

...ith a 45 per cent increase in bonuses alone - from $1.5 million in 2006 to $2.2 million in 2007. Quality journalism matters. It is important that working journalists at Fairfax are able to keep ...

2. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

...fax Media is trying to drive down journalists’ wages and create a company that produces low-cost, low-quality journalism – a clear threat to keeping you informed. Fairfax management is not listenin...

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

...eir industry and do whatever is necessary to be better. Here’s what Philip Meyer, Knight Professor of Journalism and author of The Vanishing Newspaper has to say about the economics of quali...

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

In May this year , the Media Alliance and The Walkley Foundation organised a two-day seminar on the future of journalism. Much of the time was spent asking, “Do newspapers have a future?” Clearly, con

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

"Influential journalism requires an investment." These words, published in this paper yesterday by former editor and long-time media watcher Mark Day, have never rung more true than in the p

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

...any experienced, dedicated and talented staff from Fairfax editorial without cutting deep into the quality of journalism. This goes well beyond the company’s claim that it is simply targeting back-off...

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

...y hurt the workers affected, but will do long-term damage to the company’s reputation as a bastion of quality journalism. The extent of the proposed sackings also poses a serious threat to the Austr...

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

...ments today that again illustrate Fairfax management’s attempt to intimidate staff fighting to uphold quality journalism. First, the Workplace Ombudsman is investigating potential unlawful action b...

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

...tion to withdraw $15,000 in sponsorship assistance to the Walkley Awards program, which rewards excellence in journalism. We thank the Fairfax staff for taking a stand in defence of journalistic sta...

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

On behalf of 39,000 members of the National Union of Journalists in the UK and Ireland we send you solidarity and support for your fight to defend the editorial integrity and quality of your papers.

11. Enterprise Agreement Breakthrough
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...will meet in the King Street entrance for the 9am starters. Meanwhile the “Fair Go, Fairfax – Don’t discount journalism” campaign continues. ...

12. Welcome back to work!
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... vital for the company and the Alliance to work together constructively to seek ways to maintain high quality journalism at Fairfax Media in order to forge a strong future for the company and its tale...

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

...in adequate staffing and conditions at their mastheads. Alliance members at HWT recognise that professional journalism and healthy competition in the media are vital to applying scrutiny to governme...

14. Our Facebook group hits 2000 members
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...friends who have recruited more than 2000 members - it's been a staggering response. Your support for quality journalism at Fairfax Media has been tremendous. But this campaign is far from over. ...

15. Fairfax Members Vote To Strike
(The Campaign/Actions)

... the cuts, with 160 full-time employees losing their jobs. A new campaign, Fair Go, Fairfax: Don't discount journalism, was launched by the Media Alliance in protest to the cuts arguing that th...

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

...o remain at Fairfax newspapers like The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will be fighting to produce quality journalism after 14% of their editorial staff have been sacked. So what could the direct...

17. Fairfax newspaper production to be outsourced
(The Campaign/In The News)

... to an offshoot of news agency Australian Associated Press, as part of a radical new experiment in Australian journalism. Read more. ...

18. Age Independence Committee writes to Kirk, Walker
(The Campaign/Editorial)

"Your business is balancing the books; ours is good journalism. One cannot exist without the other. You maintain the cuts won’t affect quality. How can any disruption to proper editorial balanc

19. Fairfax journos quiz Kirk's pay rise
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media journalists took the fight for quality journalism up to CEO David Kirk yesterday, asking why he was rewarding himself with a 23.8% pay rise to $3.41 million - the equivalent of 10 prime

20. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...of the editorial staff of those papers. Kirk and McCarthy have made hollow promises about somehow maintaining journalism quality at the papers but they never explain how that can be achieved with 14% ...

21. PM wants quality journalism to continue
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called on media companies not to abandon quality journalism as they wrestle with an increasingly digitalised media landscape. Media bosses met on the Gold Coast for the

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

... Fairfax journalists is that less and less of their work will be checked by lawyers, at a cost of more timid journalism, by a company now transfixed by the ruthless cost-cutting mentality of deputy ...

23. Online media can't bridge quality gap, says Beecher
(The Campaign/In The News)

THE future of quality journalism in Australia is so precarious that politicians may soon be forced to consider whether governments should support alternative media outlets in the interests of protecti

24. 14% staff cut 'increased commitment to quality'
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ff. But the Fairfax Diggital boss says: "Far from resulting in a lessening of our commitment to quality journalism, they are, in fact, exactly the opposite." He just doesn't say how. Read ...

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

...the Sydney Institute entitled: 'The public good, public companies, and the future of print media and quality journalism'. Kirk's speech is being advertised as follows: 'The internet, blogs, 24-hour ...

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

The Fairfax Media brand does have a somewhat unique situation. As a “parent” brand, the bulk of general awareness and connection lies with its masthead brands (The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, etc)

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

...United States.  I believe firmly in the company and its future.   We produce first-class journalism in print, online and on the air.  We have innovative sales people.  W...

28. Media Watch finds 'churnalism' at Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

"It's a poor substitute for journalism. But the paper's staff is apparently so lean that this sort of thing is now a common occurrence. We asked the Editor of Queensland Country Life for a comm

29. Australian Nursing Federation
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

... calling on our members and the public of Australia to support the campaign’s online petition. We see quality journalism as a significant contributor to maintenance of a free and fair democracy in Aus...

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

...ed not a single person with newspaper experience - to junk the history and the traditions of newspapers and journalism, but it was one of the first to do so, certainly in Australia.  Read more...