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

...es got in the 2006-07 financial year – based on reasonable assumptions drawn from the Fairfax and Rural Press annual reports. Fairfax has offered a pay rise below inflation. The cost of paying in...

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

...uragement of local industries. Fairfax journalists have always been at the forefront of campaigns for press freedom and, for nearly two decades, have fought for diversity, calling for more, not few...

3. Fairfax journos quiz Kirk's pay rise
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...nce targets (Fairfax shares hit a low of $1.59 while he was saying this - when Fairfax merged with Rural Press in may last year they were trading above $5.40). Kirk added that senior salaries had been...

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

...w years. We've noticed a very different approach among Fairfax management since the merger with Rural Press in 2006. A low cost, low-quality approach appears to be holding sway in the boardroom, an...

5. 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

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

... Illawarra: Illawarra Mercury headquarters, Auburn Street, Wollongong. Canberra: Canberra Press Gallery. Be prepared for a likely scenario. In earlier disputes, the company delive...

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

... 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 fun at...

8. 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

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

...are under threat again. Also, as members of the EPMU, we have union colleagues in many other depts - pre-press, press, distribution, classified call centre, advertising and front office staff. Altho...

10. Fairfax newspaper production to be outsourced
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ion for its flagship Sydney and Melbourne newspapers to an offshoot of news agency Australian Associated Press, as part of a radical new experiment in Australian journalism. Read more. ...

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

...made redundant already, but whatever they may feel, the question of how journalism will survive is more pressing as it indirectly affects society as a whole." Read more ...

12. SMH owner Fairfax Media to cut 550 jobs
(The Campaign/In The News)

Fairfax Media, the owner of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age, has today announced that it will axe 550 jobs as part of a cost-cutting programme to reduce its workforce by 5%. Shocke

13. 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

14. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...when in 2007 (when he was paid $2.75 million) he was worth just 8 PMs. And Kirk’s deputy, former Rural Press boss Brian McCarthy, is paid the equivalent of more than seven Australian prime minister...

15. Australian Nursing Federation
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...deration, the industrial and professional organisation for nurses and midwives in Australia, wishes to express our solidarity and support to the Media Alliance in the current Fair Go Fairfax campaign ...

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

...the Fairfax Media will not lead to a decline in quality journalism. The guarantees have been made in the press, on radio, to the stockbroking community, on the internet. But neither Kirk nor his colle...

17. New Fairfax CEO to be decided next week
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media chairman Ron Walker says that former Rural Press executive Brian McCarthy is interim CEO of the media group "until the Board meets next Wednesday, 10 December 2008".

18. Ron Walker's message to Fairfax staff
(The Campaign/In The News)

... include: the diversification of publishing revenue achieved largely through the merger with Rural Press, which will stand the company in good stead during this economic downturn the very r...

19. Kirk finally talks to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... staff while the share price has plunged from a high of about $5.44 at the time of the merger with Rural Press in May last year to be trading as low as $1.18 this week.  Among the many issues ...

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

...Brian McCarthy could restructure senior management. It is likely he will elevate more former key Rural Press executives to top positions in the Fairfax group. It is understood Mr McCarthy will be ...

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

David Kirk, Fairfax Media's $3.4 million man, failed to impress with his speech to The Sydney Institute last night. The Fairfax share price was hammered to another record low in trade today - just $2.

22. 300 plus - readers demand Carlton's reinstatement
(The Campaign/In The News)

PRESSURE is building inside Fairfax Media to reinstate high-profile columnist Mike Carlton as its flagship newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald is flooded with letters from readers protesting about his

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

...ountry Life for a comment. We got no response. QCL is one of more than two hundred papers owned by Rural Press, which merged with Fairfax Media last year. Its former CEO, Brian McCarthy, who's famous ...

24. Sunday information meetings
(The Campaign/Actions)

... Illawarra: Illawarra Mercury headquarters, Auburn Street, Wollongong. Canberra: Canberra Press Gallery.  ...

25. Fairfax shares hit new 12-month low
(The Campaign/In The News)

... shares have fallen by 45% over the past year. It's worth recalling that on April 18 2007, the day Rural Press shareholders gave their approval to the merger, Fairfax shares were trading at $5.18. A...

26. John B Fairfax on quality
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...dia's second largest shareholder John B Fairfax says a lot about quality in this speech to the Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards - including "benching" (i.e. making redundant) journalists an...

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

...The number was about 70 percent above the $1.43 million he earned in 2005-06 at his final year at Rural Press, which Fairfax bought last year. Kirk recently said classified ad revs have been “leaki...

28. Fairfax sacks lawyers, 'timid journalism' fear
(The Campaign/In The News)

...he ruthless cost-cutting mentality of deputy chief executive Brian McCarthy, whose past record at Rural Press is well known. Read more ...

29. Fairfax Media journalists on strike
(The Campaign/In The News)

Journalists at the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review and the Melbourne Age walked out on strike today in protest at owner Fairfax Media's plan to cut 550 jobs. Read full story.

30. Fairfax Media journalists in Australia stage four-day strike
(The Campaign/In The News)

Journalists working for Australia's second largest press group, Fairfax Media, on Thursday launched a four-day day strike to protest at plans to axe 550 jobs, staff and their union said. Read full sto