1. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

...ampaign site for working journalists and editorial staff at print publications and websites including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, The Age/Sunday Age, The Australian Financial Review, Bu...

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

...nue working for Australia’s best newspapers. Yours truly, Richard Glover Columnist Spectrum The Sydney Morning Herald   Alan Davison Alan Kennedy Alan Mo...

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

...ris. Fairfax has long been a benchmark of quality journalism. For many years, the Melbourne Age and The Sydney Morning Herald appeared in the list of the top-20 best newspapers in the world. They we...

4. Mike Carlton sacked for refusing to file column
(The Campaign/In The News)

RADIO broadcaster and Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton has been sacked for refusing to write his weekly column during a strike. Read more.

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

...t 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 the job cuts inev...

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

...o claims by Fairfax chief executive officer David Kirk that these cuts will not affect the quality of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun-Herald. It is impossible to remove so many experienced, dedi...

7. Richard Glover: I won't cross electronic picket line
(The Campaign/In The News)

...columnist, Richard Glover, yesterday invited Herald editor, Alan Oakley on to his drivetime radio show on Sydney’s 2BL 702. Oakley was silly enough to agree. He got a roasting. The SMH editor, clear...

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

... and report any other developments. The meetings will be held in the following locations: Sydney: Unions NSW Auditorium, 377 Sussex Street, use Dixon Street entrance, Sydney. ...

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

...e ACTU. The decision that up to a third of those job cuts will come from the editorial departments of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will not only hurt the workers affected, but will do long-te...

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

...es at Chullora and Tullamarine for the moment. Protest gatherings are being held at One Darling Island in Sydney throughout today and at The Age’s Spencer Street building in Melbourne. Activities in N...

11. The Thin Black Line
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...g on a rampage against the civilians of East Timor, The Age’s Jakarta correspondent, Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald’s Hamish McDonald and Louise Williams, and Indonesian-based journalist Z...

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. Caucus told Fairfax redundancies threaten democracy
(The Campaign/Editorial)

PROPOSED retrenchments at Fairfax are putting in danger the quality of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, a Federal Government parliamentary secretary, John Murphy, says. Mr Murphy, who has a lon

14. Sydney Rally AM Friday
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Footage from the Sydney rally is now available. Media Alliance federal secretary, Christopher Warren, federal president, Patricia Amphlett and Media section president, Ruth Pollard address journalists

15. Enterprise Agreement Breakthrough
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...oposal to vote later this week. There will be a Welcome Back BBQ tomorrow morning from 8.30am at ODI in Sydney before a return en masse at 9.30am.For all other offices please gather outside at 9.15...

16. Richard Glover takes the pledge!
(The Campaign/Actions)

...y in its sacking of popular columnist Mike Carlton after he refused to file his Saturday column for The Sydney Morning Herald. The ABC’s Richard Glover has drafted a letter of support of Mike Carlt...

17. Richard Glover interviews Alan Oakley
(The Campaign/In The News)

...for the newspaper as a result. On the 702 Drive show, Richard Glover spoke to Alan Oakley Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/files/alan_oakley.mp3  ...

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

...rnment and the corporate sector in the interests of democracy. Cutting journalist numbers at The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and other Fairfax publications will affect the overall ability of the me...

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

Thanks to all our Facebook 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 campa

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

Media Alliance members working on Fairfax publications in Sydney, Melbourne, the Illawarra and Newcastle have voted overwhelmingly to stop work immediately until Monday. The strike will affect the

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

...us long-term damage to the company. In particular, the decision to abolish the in-house legal team at the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald is seen as a deliberate attempt to “dumb down” the newspa...

22. ABC PM: Fairfax standing ground over journalist strike
(The Campaign/In The News)

...uncertain future after the company maintained it would use strike-breakers to publish its newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Financial Review. The journalists are on str...

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

...ow to pay the mortgage and other bills. And their colleagues who remain at Fairfax newspapers like The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will be fighting to produce quality journalism after 14% of ...

24. Phil Burgess on Just The Facts
(The Campaign/In The News)

...s outgoing public policy chief Phil Burgess speaking at the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch in Sydney yesterday, doesn’t think much of the Fairfax Media web site Just The Facts http://fairf...

25. Secrecy surrounded establishment of Fairfax 'sub hub'
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media has begun its experiment of outsourcing part of the editorial production of its flagship Sydney and Melbourne newspapers, days after the move was announced as part of a redundancy progra

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

FAIRFAX Media will outsource much of its editorial production function for its flagship Sydney and Melbourne newspapers to an offshoot of news agency Australian Associated Press, as part of a radical

27. Planned Action Today
(The Campaign/Actions)

...public rally will be held at 4.30pm at Civic Park at the corner of Derby and King streets in Newcastle. Sydney - Come and join the rally and picket outside One Darling Island offices in Pyrmont. The...

28. Sunday information meetings
(The Campaign/Actions)

... and report any other developments. The meetings will be held in the following locations: Sydney: Unions NSW Auditorium, 377 Sussex Street, use Dixon Street entrance, Sydney. ...

29. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...t of Fairfax newspapers. Of the 550 jobs to be lost, 120 editorial positions will be culled from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and The Age - up to 14% of the editorial staff of those ...

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

... 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 a review of industrial action ...