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

...on. We hope this matter will be sensibly resolved, so that we can all continue working for Australia’s best newspapers. Yours truly, Richard Glover Columnist Spectrum The Sydney Morning He...

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

...al of this concept is that it provides economic justification for journalistic quality. If it's valid, then newspapers that sacrifice quality to prop up the bottom line are undermining their busine...

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

...ey Foundation organised a two-day seminar on the future of journalism. Much of the time was spent asking, “Do newspapers have a future?” Clearly, conference-goers, not unaware of the burgeoning influe...

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

...ne's The Age. He believes, as I do, that the job cuts inevitably will lead to a loss of quality at Fairfax newspapers when quality has never been so important. Until now, Australia largely has b...

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

... 550 jobs just a week after it announced a 47% increase in profit to a record $387 million. “Staff at these newspapers work hard to inform the public and report Australia's news.  “Quality jo...

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

...action. Entries from these members will be accepted until 5pm on Wednesday, September 3. Fairfax Community Newspapers are circulating a petition in support of their metropolitan colleagues who are ...

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

...consultation regarding the redundancies and the impact they stand to have on staff and the quality of Fairfax newspapers, websites and magazines. We believe it is vital for the company and the Alli...

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

... has shown for experience and the skills of sub-editors, indicating a basic lack of understanding on how good newspapers operate. We also condemn the public talking down of the quality and profitabi...

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

... at our workplace last year, we've been awaiting the axe or at least the pruning shears. On June 30 Fairfax newspapers around NZ held emergency staff meetings after a story was accidentally put up o...

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

...whelmingly to stop work immediately 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 ...

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

...use legal team at the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald is seen as a deliberate attempt to “dumb down” the newspapers and make complex, edgy, political stories harder to publish. The failure of ...

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

...irfax Group face an 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 jo...

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

...o rebuild their lives, how 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 ...

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

...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 program for 165 loca...

15. 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

16. The stockbroker's view
(The Campaign/In The News)

...m writes that Fairfax had indicated that "the staff cuts in editorial will not affect the quality of its newspapers" and "the staff cuts in its Australian metro newspapers will not affe...

17. 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

18. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...bsp; $11.67 million.    Meanwhile, the redundancies are ripping the heart out of Fairfax newspapers. Of the 550 jobs to be lost, 120 editorial positions will be culled from The Sy...

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

...ydney today at which Carlton's dismissal will be raised during a review of industrial action at the company's newspapers. Read full story. ...

20. 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

21. Fairfax's finest line up to leave SMH
(The Campaign/In The News)

... be made redundant have been approved. Yesterday, the chief executive of Fairfax's NSW and ACT metropolitan newspapers, Lloyd Whish-Wilson, said in an internal memo that "more applications tha...

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

...scrutiny and lower quality information, which in turn could lead to a loss of trust in the integrity of the newspapers. The ripple effects of that loss of trust have the potential to affect every a...

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

...riably, contained 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.&...

24. Sacked Age editor says: Take this job and ...
(The Campaign/In The News)

...rk announced a "business improvement program". Under that program, between 11% and 14% of the two newspapers' editorial staff will be made redundant. Read more ...

25. Reports of paper's demise exaggerated
(The Campaign/In The News)

The problem facing newspapers, writes Powers, is that media companies have been slow to appreciate the particular strengths and limitations of different media forms and to work them accordingly. Rea

26. Fairfax ruined by incompetence - mastheads trashed
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ia's premier newspaper publisher was (and largely still is) run by people with no experience of or love for newspapers. People who are "bemused" they are running a newspaper company. Edit...

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

...be a decline in quality journalism when there will be a loss of 14% of the editorial staff of the metro daily newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne? How will Kirk, McCarthy and co. ensure that quality ...

28. Fairfax underperforming
(The Campaign/In The News)

...Another company feeling the downturn was Fairfax Media, publisher of this paper. Advertising on metropolitan newspapers rose 2.1 per cent in the June half. Goldies tipped that Fairfax's metros, incl...

29. Britain's journalists campaigning for quality journalism
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ciety – providing citizens with the information necessary on which to make a range of decisions. From local newspapers to specialist magazines, from websites to radio and TV, staffing and budget cu...

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