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

...f journalists are on strike, columnists should also remove their labour. Mike Carlton did no more than would have been done by any of the undersigned, had our deadline coincided with industrial acti...

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

...he past 12 months. For months, management has been stonewalling over a new collective agreement that would recognise the hard work that staff has put in to make the group’s newspapers among the ...

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

...eer until recently. I loved every minute of it. It was a heady atmosphere and no one ever wondered if it would all end one day. Some at the seminar foresaw the demise of the mass-market papers, whic...

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

...s little to challenge that idea. The market initially reacted favourably to the news that the company would wipe $50million off its wages bill. Shares rose 5 per cent on the back of chief executive...

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

...no point was any editorial executive able to explain how this redundancy round and rostering restructure would affect plans for an integrated, digital newsroom that combines The Sydney Morning Herald ...

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

...s. What the company presented at the meeting was an ultimatum. The company told us that they would not allow staff members who are currently on strike to return to work on Monday unless we...

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

...ship in June 2008. His scoop threw a spotlight on an important story that many people in power had hoped would be ignored. He has also played a pivotal role in The Age’s coverage of the September 11 t...

8. Citizen McCarthy swings Fairfax axe
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ness Improvement Program," Fairfax chief executive David Kirk and deputy Brian McCarthy said they would cut 550 jobs to save $50 million a year. Almost a third of these staff losses, or 165 job...

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

...aturday edition, because of the current strike by journalists and editorial staff. He was told that he would no longer be writing for the newspaper as a result. On the 702 Drive show, Richard Glov...

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

...as accidentally put up on the Fairfax intranet, two days ahead of the official announcement, that FFX NZ would be restructuring its sub-editing teams - cutting jobs at its mastheads and creating &quot...

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

...Wednesday August 26, Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk and Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy announced that 550 staff would be cut. The staff reductions would take place in both Australia and New Zealand, with the...

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

Journalists at the Fairfax 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 Fin

13. Media Watch finds 'churnalism' at Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ess, which merged with Fairfax Media last year. Its former CEO, Brian McCarthy, who's famous for what he would call "rigorous cost-control", is now deputy CEO of Fairfax. I wonder if, as st...

14. Chairman Walker takes to the air - first class
(The Campaign/In The News)

...no problems, albeit he was one of 14 people privileged enough to sit in first class. Stretching out, he would have had enough room in his personalised cabin to fit another person. Read more Unl...

15. The human cost of newspaper redundancies
(The Campaign/In The News)

...re than 23 minutes. If you were to create a similar tribute for the 550 jobs at Fairfax Media, the video would run for three hours. See the clip here ...

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

...d indeed issue a diktat on August 26. Their e-mail told staff, and sharemarket analysts, that 550 people would have to lose their jobs in order to cut $50 million in costs. Neither Kirk nor McCarthy c...

17. Fairfax increases cuts, bosses earn record pay
(The Campaign/In The News)

Nearly a month after the Aussie news giant announced it would cut 550 jobs across its corporate and publishing units, Fairfax has increased cuts at Sydney Morning Herald from 60 to 70, while its boss

18. Deputy PM concerned
(The Campaign/In The News)

...tainly the Fairfax newspapers are part of our quality and diversity across the system. And anything that would lead to a reduction, either in the quality of those newspapers, or in the diversity of vi...

19. Former Fairfax director praises Walkley awards
(The Campaign/In The News)

...dia decided to cease its sponsorship of the Walkley Awards at the same time that it announced 550 people would lose their jobs. Fairfax had sponsored the award named in honour of two of its own journa...

20. $3.4 million Kirk talks of belt-tightening
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ore than 10 Australian prime ministers. And on August 26 he and Brian McCarthy announced that 550 people would lose their jobs. But check out this line from Kirk's speech to The Sydney Institute: &quo...

21. Kirk: Former Fairfax editors 'poisonous' and 'Chicken Littles'
(The Campaign/In The News)

... 1997 and 2004 and sharply criticised Fairfax management last week, was running the company "there would be many more staff cuts". In August Mr Kirk announced 550 redundancies from Fairfax ...

22. It's wrong to sacrifice content
(The Campaign/In The News)

... chief executive David Kirk last week said that the loss of about 100 journalists at the two newspapers would not affect editorial quality.) Read more ...

23. Kirk insults staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...  So imagine the insult to Fairfax employees when Kirk spoke to them this afternoon. Asked if he would consider having a journalist on the board of directors, someone who could even be a non-v...

24. Fairfax cutbacks chilling: ex-editor
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ally stood for was a recipe for disaster. And, less than two months after the announcement that 550 jobs would go across the company's Australian and New Zealand operations under a "business im...

25. Fairfax gets 'volunteers' for job cuts
(The Campaign/In The News)

The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) said it seemed likely Fairfax editorial staff would face forced redundancies as part of a "business improvement plan" to cut 550 jobs acros

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

...n to the new CEO”.   Those two payments (just shy of the pay of two Australian prime ministers) would buy the equivalent of at least six top quality journalists - but instead Fairfax made 55...

27. John B Fairfax silent
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ng 452 Capital and Perpetual Investments, called for a dividend reduction on Friday, saying the company would be better off using some of its earnings to lower its $2.5 billion in debt than keep up...

28. Fairfax family values
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ng cheaper than a copy of its flagship Sydney newspaper. But there's no doubt another set of numbers would have been exercising the 66-year-old's mind - the $600million he'd blown on his stake in...

29. Oakley "steps down" as SMH editor
(The Campaign/In The News)

... the Herald, The Australian Financial Review and The Age in Melbourne. Fairfax announced in August it would slash 550 jobs in Australia and New Zealand, including 165 editorial jobs. Age editor A...

30. Dividends, Debt Remain Key Issues For Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

... of action, as comments at the company's annual general meeting suggested the current 80% payout ratio would be maintained. Read more ...