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

We, the undersigned, believe the sacking of Mike Carlton is an unjustified and provocative act by Fairfax management. It has long been accepted practice that when staff journalists are on strike, c

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

...rnalistic quality. If it's valid, then newspapers that sacrifice quality to prop up the bottom line are undermining their business model. In other words, its not just advertising revenues that...

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

...ference-goers, not unaware of the burgeoning influence of the 24-hour online news services, many of them under the mastheads of existing newspapers, saw that traditional media was at a watershed. Un...

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

...indicates an inability to provide accurate and reliable estimates to staff contemplating redundancy. Under the company's rostering plans announced today, subeditors will bear an unfair burden of h...

5. Richard Glover: I won't cross electronic picket line
(The Campaign/In The News)

...gument over the mean-spirited sacking of Mike Carlton for refusing to cross “the electronic picket line”.Under pressure Oakley became a little flustered, but then rallied and decided to poke a little ...

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

...greement offer in its current form. This top-down ultimatum delivered today stands to directly breach undertakings the company made yesterday afternoon in the Australian Industrial Relations Commis...

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

... defend the editorial integrity and quality of your papers. It is not possible to cut 550 jobs and not undermine the quality of the papers produced. It is a false economy.  Like you we are fac...

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

...ct Fairfax management 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 ...

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

... the news about the wider staff cuts - and as we are technically staffed above the masthead requirements under the new work plans - we are waiting to see if our jobs are under threat again. Also, as m...

10. Our Facebook group hits 2000 members
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ght up to Fairfax. You can help by signing our petition, seek Mike Carlton's reinstatement (see our link under the main menu at left), and any other creative ideas you can come up with. Don't forget ...

11. Age Independence Committee writes to Kirk, Walker
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... text of the letter sent to Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk and copied to Fairfax Media chairman Ron Walker under the Latest News tab. ...

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

...t buy it. The analysis responds: "We are a little more circumspect. In our view, the company cannot undertake staff costs of this magnitude without affecting the quality of the product." Gol...

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

...se to be lost in the short-sighted approach to cost-cutting. In its editorial it hopes the company fully understands the implications for quality : "To lose 45-55 people will be painful and dispi...

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

FAIRFAX Media will come under pressure to reinstate high-profile columnist Mike Carlton, as the nation's workplace investigator queries his abrupt sacking during a strike by journalists last week. The

15. Kirk speech fails to impress - Rudd targets exec pay
(The Campaign/In The News)

...% pay increase to $3.4 million. Shareholders, that include John B Fairfax and his family who own just under 15% of the Fairfax Media since the merger, must be wondering what they've done to deserve...

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

...gust 27, the day after chief executive David Kirk announced a "business improvement program". Under that program, between 11% and 14% of the two newspapers' editorial staff will be made re...

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

...sm resources"? How will Kirk, McCarthy and co. demonstrate that Fairfax Media's senior management understands what is at stake, given that former editor of The Age Michael Gawenda says the comp...

18. 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

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

... local newspapers to specialist magazines, from websites to radio and TV, staffing and budget cuts are undermining that crucial role. Without proper investment into journalism, quality journalism wi...

20. Executive pay packets under fire
(The Campaign/In The News)

As the annual general meeting season for Australia’s public companies gets underway, executives and directors are bracing for a barrage of criticism from angry investors over high pay and bonuses. W

21. 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

22. Fairfax to cull 70 journalists from SMH
(The Campaign/In The News)

...fax is also well advanced in plans to outsource half its SMH sections to production company Pagemasters. Under this arrangement, external sub-editors and designers are expected to produce weekly secti...

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

...fter the announcement that 550 jobs would go across the company's Australian and New Zealand operations under a "business improvement plan", he described "the confusion and lack of c...

24. Rural Press faction takes over Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ly he will elevate more former key Rural Press executives to top positions in the Fairfax group. It is understood Mr McCarthy will be formally anointed as CEO of Fairfax at a 9.30am board meeting in...

25. Age readers call for Kirk, Walker to be "unloaded"
(The Campaign/In The News)

A customer-is-always-right blunder by The Age has contributed to calls for Fairfax's biggest shareholder to sack Fairfax CEO David Kirk and chairman of the Fairfax Media board of directors Ron Walker:

26. Kirk's job untenable
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ns, with The Australian Financial Review the only paper reporting to Kirk and it has long been an island under the control of Michael Gill. Fairfax chair Ron Walker has some quick decisions to ma...

27. Does McCarthy "get" the internet?
(The Campaign/In The News)

THERE is one word that underscores the unfolding crisis at Fairfax Media: internet. For the man the group's board has chosen to right the ship, Brian McCarthy, it is his self-confessed weakest suit. R

28. Team Barack enlists Fairfax corporate chief
(The Campaign/In The News)

...er to Henry Waxman, one of the key congressional players in the agenda of Barack Obama. Mr Wolpe served under Mr Waxman for several years as his legislative director and has a long history with the ...