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

...means enhanced revenue and a better bottom line all round. But that takes guts. It takes vision. And those are in short supply in the top echelons of Fairfax these days. Instead of investing in t...

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

...their management, which goes beyond a mere pay dispute. That battle is coming to a head. It is one of those seminal moments in the history of Fairfax where the company's future is up for grabs. At ...

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

...t he also appears to realise that, as the competition for people's attention becomes more intense, it is those companies that hold their nerve and investin quality that will flourish in the long term....

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

...e’s livelihoods and the company’s long-term viability, says the 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 Ag...

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

...e independence ballot in East Timor. Fairfax journalists were at the forefront of covering the events of those turbulent, dangerous and unforgettable times. At the height of the crisis, with the Indon...

6. British Journalists: Be Strong. Be Proud. Be Victorious
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

... false economy.  Like you we are facing an industry that puts the interests of shareholders before those of its readers and axes not management waste but frontline journalists. You have our full...

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

...ving final dividend cheques worth more than $22 million thanks to their shareholdings in the company. Those cheques are in addition to the $4 million they already receive in directors fees*. At th...

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

...y newspapers. One of the affected papers, The Sunday Age, notes that sub-editors' jobs are among some of those to be lost in the short-sighted approach to cost-cutting. In its editorial it hopes the c...

9. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... culled from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and The Age - up to 14% of the editorial staff of those papers. Kirk and McCarthy have made hollow promises about somehow maintaining journalism ...

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

...ssing members of a think tank rather than speaking personally to Fairfax employees has not been lost on those editorial staff considering taking redundancy, or those from other departments who have...

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

...rald, etc). So the impact of the personnel cuts and resulting questions and perceptions mostly affects those mastheads rather hitting Fairfax Media directly. However, given that the market value of...

12. Fairfax issues vouchers and bonuses
(The Campaign/In The News)

"Now we hear those exempt from the industrial action received a rather more serious monetary reward: a $2000 bonus in their pay packets and a nice thankyou letter from chief David Kirk. Sources

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

"Quality journalism matters to everyone, not just those working in the industry. The media plays a vital role in society – providing citizens with the information necessary on which to make a r

14. Downsized to fit
(The Campaign/In The News)

... in the media. It's a particularly exciting time to be at The Age." Very exciting indeed with all those redundancies on offer. Read more ...

15. News is core business
(The Campaign/In The News)

... lifestyle supplements redundant. In tough times, enterprises that succeed for the long term are those that stick to their core business and excel. A metropolitan newspaper, staffed by more ...

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

...y 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 views in our media market, is of concern to me." ...

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

... in 2006. But here's what former Fairfax director David Gonski has to say:  "I am one of those bastards who does appreciate what the Walkley awards do," he said. Read more &...

18. Vow to keep up standards a crucial test for Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

"Kirk's pledge is one of those utterances the verity of which can only be revealed, or otherwise, via the passage of time. It may simply come down to who stays and who opts to leave. Others mig

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

...aid that Fairfax's practice of having the websites of its main metropolitan mastheads at odds with what those newspapers have traditionally stood for was a recipe for disaster. And, less than two mo...

20. Fairfax shareholders vote against remuneration report
(The Campaign/In The News)

...mately adopted, with 915.3 million votes for and 69.3 million votes against, a significant majority of those present at the meeting voted against the motion. The vote followed angry comments by ex-s...

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

...o ensure “their retention and successful contribution during the transition to the new CEO”.   Those two payments (just shy of the pay of two Australian prime ministers) would buy the equiva...

22. Dividend cut expected tomorrow
(The Campaign/In The News)

... Fairfax Media board to cut the 20c a share dividend to boost cashflow and the share price and get all those analysts and moaning fund managers off their back. In fact cutting dividend by half to...