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

... 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 the honoured Fairfax brand values of quality, accuracy, fl...

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

...s to quality journalism, and the air of inevitability becomes mesmerising. The Greek chorus accompanying these cuts seems to sing the same song. It comes from a management class which has risen over t...

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

"Influential journalism requires an investment." These words, published in this paper yesterday by former editor and long-time media watcher Mark Day, have never rung more true than in the p

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

...ositions are to be made redundant, contrary to claims by Fairfax chief executive officer David Kirk that these cuts will not affect the quality of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun-Herald. It is i...

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

...g 550 jobs just a week after it announced a 47% increase in profit to a record $387 million. “Staff at these newspapers work hard to inform the public and report Australia's news.  “Quality j...

6. Holding Fire On Picket Lines At Printers
(The Campaign/Actions)

...extended the deadline for entries for Fairfax journalists who are taking industrial action. Entries from these members will be accepted until 5pm on Wednesday, September 3. Fairfax Community Newspa...

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

...ucial coverage of Australian defence and security issues. Much of what the Australian public knows about these matters can be traced back to his investigative reporting. Tom Hyland, foreign editor a...

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

...rk 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 jobs, were to come from the ranks of journalists. Read more ...

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

...ydney Morning Herald and other Fairfax publications will affect the overall ability of the media to hold these institutions accountable. It will make the task of the Herald Sun, Sunday Herald Sun an...

10. Crikey: Secret Fairfax share scheme key to slash and burn
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... is unavoidable, due to a decline in classified revenue and the advent of new technology, insiders say these reasons are less significant than a secretive $4 million scheme to reward the most senio...

11. Fairfax's finest line up to leave SMH
(The Campaign/In The News)

...mprovement plan" involving the axing of 550 jobs across its Australian and New Zealand operations. These included a program of voluntary redundancies for up to 70 staff at the SMH, and up to 55 ...

12. New CEO's message to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...t is very much ‘business as usual’, with an immediate emphasis on the best performance we can obtain in these last weeks before Christmas.  I look forward to meeting as many of the staff as po...

13. Herald Sun takes out newspaper honours
(The Campaign/In The News)

"Yet again, these awards prove newspaper journalism is the best journalism." Read the report in The Age

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

...  Kirk now claims: "Because of that bottom-up process we can say that we are confident that these changes will be made without loss of quality in our journalism."   And if ...

15. Kirk of 1138 Days
(The Campaign/Editorial)

It's common management practice these days for senior executives to "walk the floor". Essentially, that means being visible in the business, literally walking around the office, speaking to

16. B-grade managers and trash content
(The Campaign/In The News)

...aracter in print form: "They're trying to talk to advertisers and say that they are talking to all these BMW drivers, and then they have all this poor white trash content online." Read m...

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

...ng as low as $1.18 this week.  Among the many issues Fairfax employees believe are important are these: 1. At a time of deep economic uncertainty, forced and voluntary redundancy through the...