1. 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...

2. 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 ...

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

...ealand and the 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...

6. 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

7. 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...

8. 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

9. 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...

10. 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...

11. 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...

12. 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. ...

13. 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...

14. 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. ...

15. Kirk's diktat versus a bottom-up process
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...itute tonight, Fairfax Media's $3.4 million CEO David Kirk underlines why he does not understand that quality journalism at Fairfax Media is threatened. "The publishers, together with the editors...

16. Kirk insults staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk, like his fellow McKinsey consultancy predecessor Fred Hilmer, walked into the job with no experience in the media industry. But then, virtually no one on the Fairfax boar

17. 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 ...

18. Future of Journalism summit in Melbourne
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ing Newspaper -  will be among a stellar line-up of speakers when the Alliance hosts its next Future of Journalism summit in Melbourne on Wednesday November 26 (the day before the Walkley Award...

19. 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...

20. 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.

21. 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. ...

22. 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...

23. 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...

24. 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% ...

25. 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...

26. Herald Sun takes out newspaper honours
(The Campaign/In The News)

"Yet again, these awards prove newspaper journalism is the best journalism." Read the report in The Age

27. Payback as Fairfax sacks Michael Gawenda
(The Campaign/In The News)

... robust views on Fairfax’s corporate conduct and performance he aired in this year’s A. N. Smith Lecture in journalism at Melbourne University in early October. Gawenda is a former Age editor, l...

28. 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

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

...lic guarantees that the 550 redundancies announced by the Fairfax Media will not lead to a decline in quality journalism. The guarantees have been made in the press, on radio, to the stockbroking comm...

30. Fairfax sheds 550 jobs and quality journalism
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media is abandoning quality journalism at its flagship newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, according to staff who yesterday rejected a company plan to shed 550 jobs. Chief