1. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

...n 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, Business...

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

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

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

... 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 were gut...

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

...fore Christmas.  I look forward to meeting as many of the staff as possible, starting with The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and The Australian Financial Review today.  I shall be me...

5. 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.

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

...ms 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, dedicated ...

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

...he 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 inevitably...

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

... 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 Zannuba...

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

...e 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  ...

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

.... 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-term dam...

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

...her unprotected action would take place and that staff were prepared to return to work as usual, on Monday morning, and thereafter, with no further bans in place. Your representatives reminded t...

12. Pagemasters grabs UK Telegraph pages
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ctions to a Pagemasters production hub in Brisbane after cutting about 70 editorial jobs from the Sydney Morning Herald since August, mostly in the subediting area. Pagemasters also handles much of...

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

... 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 Carlton – ad...

14. Enterprise Agreement Breakthrough
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...to do. There will be a formal proposal 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 office...

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

...mediately until Monday. The strike will affect the company's two biggest-selling newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Melbourne. Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance federal secr...

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

...McCarthy had come up with. And as late as September 29, the number of editorial redundancies at the Sydney Morning Herald suddenly jumped from 60 to 70.   Kirk now claims: "Because of ...

17. More golden handcuffs?
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...alists - but instead Fairfax made 550 people redundant, including 15% of the editorial staff of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. This time around will any Fairfax senior executives be paid ...

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

...ain 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 strike un...

19. 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

20. Fairfax board meets... but without Kirk
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ompany's non-executive directors to discuss the operational performance of Fairfax, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's The Age and The Sunday Age newspapers. One source said: &q...

21. Berlusconi picks up Fairfax asset
(The Campaign/In The News)

...le of Southern Star to Endemol is part of moves by Fairfax to pay down debt, with the owner of The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's The Age newspapers struggling under a $2.5 billion debt burde...

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

... 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 media to...

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

Fairfax Media, the owner of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age, has today announced that it will axe 550 jobs as part of a cost-cutting programme to reduce its workforce by 5%. Shocke

24. 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

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

...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 their ...

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

...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 Carlton – a...

27. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... 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 papers...

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

...g-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 newspapers a...

29. 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

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

MESSAGE TO ALL STAFF FROM RONALD WALKER, CHAIRMAN, FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED To All Staff This morning, I must inform you that David Kirk today announced his resignation as CEO of Fairfax