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 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...

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. 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

7. 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...

8. 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. ...

9. Sunday information meetings
(The Campaign/Actions)

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

10. 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...

11. 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...

12. 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

13. 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...

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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 ...

17. 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 ...

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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 ...

21. 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 ...

22. 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...

23. 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

24. 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...

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

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard told Paul Bongiorno on Ten Network's Meet The Press: "We want to see quality and diversity - certainly the Fairfax newspapers are part of our quality and diver

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

...ject". Some believed they spied an omen. They interpreted McCarthy, the managing director of Rural Press prior to its $9billion merger with Fairfax, as indicating he'd discovered a low-cost, l...

27. 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 ...

28. Ex-Fairfax editor lashes old bosses
(The Campaign/In The News)

Michael Gawenda, former editor-in-chief of Melbourne's The Age, has painted a bizarre but not totally surprising picture of life in Fairfax Media's newspaper. In a speech last week, Gawenda talked of

29. More cost cutting at Rural Press
(The Campaign/In The News)

... is expected to introduce more cost cutting and restructuring in its regional operations. Former Rural Press CEO, Brian McCarthy, now heads up the group, a year after it merged with Rural Press. Rea...

30. Fairfax may be broken-up and sold
(The Campaign/In The News)

... have been used as cash cows, which has weakened them. But that’s a hindsight judgement. With the bank pressures a bit close, Fairfax will need to cut all the costs it can if its trading revenue st...