1. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

...WorkChoices; laws overwhelmingly rejected by Australians at the last election. Management at Fairfax Media is trying to drive down journalists’ wages and create a company that produces low-cost, l...

2. Campaign Contacts
(The Campaign/About Us)

Campaign Claire O'Rourke Industrial Organiser, Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance Em: claire.orourke@alliance.org.au Ph: 02 9333 0935 Mb: 0412 984 925 Media Inquiries Mike Do

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

... future is nothing more than a means of stripping value out of one of this country’s oldest and proudest media groups. David Kirk, Brian McCarthy and their moneyed mates have a plan for the future ...

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)

Good Afternoon. Yesterday, I was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Media Limited.  It is an honour to lead such an outstanding media company, and I shall work tirelessly to make

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

...uires 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 present climate of uncertainty su...

8. Who is Brian McCarthy?
(The Campaign/Editorial)

"Brian McCarthy detests publicity... Perched on a smallish table in front of an 1879 portrait of David Syme in the Spencer Street building that houses (The Age), McCarthy adjusted his tie as if

9. Sunrise Ruth Pollard interview
(The Campaign/In The News)

Media Alliance president, Ruth Pollard, made an appearance on behalf of members on the popular breakfast program, Sunrise. View the full version by clicking read more. 

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

 This week’s announcement of plans to cut 550 jobs at Fairfax Media is another worrying case of a short-sighted push for profits by bonus-driven executives at the expense of people’s livelihoods

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

... and we have set our legal processes in train. Do not be intimidated by this. Consider how a major media company locking out its own professional staff on its flagship metro mastheads will play ...

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

...cessed in suburban Sydney. The move comes after Telegraph executives visited the headquarters of Fairfax Media, publisher of the Herald, last year. Fairfax has outsourced some of its sections to a Pa...

13. 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

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

...- but by then the damage 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 ...

15. Sunday Age clings to "hope"
(The Campaign/In The News)

Fairfax Media plans to cut up to 14% of the editorial staff from its metro daily newspapers. One of the affected papers, The Sunday Age, notes that sub-editors' jobs are among some of those to be lost

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

...ledged their support, saying in a statement that “professional journalism and healthy competition in the media are vital to applying scrutiny to government and the corporate sector in the interests of...

17. 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

18. 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

19. Fairfax flack Bruce Wolpe turns up in Denver
(The Campaign/In The News)

As Fairfax Media faced its biggest crisis since the disastrous takeover of the company by Warwick Fairfax two decades ago, its corporate affairs chief Bruce Wolpe was thousands of kilometres away in D

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

In his speech to the Sydney Institute 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 publi

21. Media mayhem likely
(The Campaign/In The News)

AUSTRALIAN media companies may be poised to follow the lead of their foreign counterparts and begin slashing the value of assets such as broadcast licences and newspapers. With traditional media bei

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

According to the Fairfax Media remuneration report, when David Kirk was appointed CEO in 2005 (just after the board had paid a $4.5 million bonus to see his predecessor Fred Hilmer out the door), bo

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

...on quality by retrenching too many staff, but Fairfax's response so far has been unbending. http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/audio/pm/200808/20080829-pm09-fairfaxcuts.mp3 ...

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

...l Government parliamentary secretary, John Murphy, says. Mr Murphy, who has a long-standing interest in media diversity issues, raised the matter with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during yesterday's c...

25. 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

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

Since their August 26 e-mail to staff announcing 550 redundancies, Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk (who is paid $3.41 million) and Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy (who is paid $2.43 million) have refused to me

27. Crikey: Secret Fairfax share scheme key to slash and burn
(The Campaign/Editorial)

An astonishing story published by Crikey.com.au today begins; "An extraordinarily generous scheme to reward senior staff based on company performance has been exposed at Fairfax and sheds new li

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

... J-Lab Institute, Jan Shaffer; Stephen Brook, formerly of The Australian, now assistant news editor at MediaGuardian.co.uk; and Professor Phillip Meyer, the author of The Vanishing Newspaper -&nbsp...

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

THE board of Fairfax Media held an unscheduled meeting in Sydney yesterday, without managing director David Kirk. The surprise move came amid growing speculation that supporters of the company's d

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

...stheads. Alliance members at HWT recognise that professional journalism and healthy competition in the media are vital to applying scrutiny to government and the corporate sector in the interests of...