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)

...e is nothing more than a means of stripping value out of one of this country’s oldest and proudest media groups. David Kirk, Brian McCarthy and their moneyed mates have a plan for the future all ri...

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

...their newspapers will survive in some form into the future.  The experience of the Knight-Ridder Group, which until  2006 was America's second biggest publisher with 32 newspapers and 18,...

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

...lans to cut 550 staff - about 5 per cent of the workforce - including more than 120 journalists from the group's most prestigious mastheads, The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's The Age. He be...

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

...nal company to take their jobs from them. In a meeting of staff, NSW publisher Lloyd Whish-Wilson, and group executive editor Phil McLean refused to articulate any business plan beyond cost-cutting ...

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

... were to exercise their threat, we would pursue the company in the AIRC. Your national negotiating group met for two hours on Saturday evening to consider the situation. We will hold infor...

7. Our Facebook group hits 1000 members
(The Campaign/Actions)

Congratulations to all of our Facebook group who have recruited over 1,000 members in just over 48 hours. But we can't stop there. We need to spread the word  far and wide about our campaign and

8. Enterprise Agreement Breakthrough
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...t 9.30am, Newcastle Herald journalists will return from 8am, with staff meeting to walk in together. A group will meet in the King Street entrance for the 9am starters. Meanwhile the “Fair Go, Fair...

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

...other creative ideas you can come up with. Don't forget to share your protest pictures in the Facebook group. Thanks again! ...

10. ABC PM: Fairfax standing ground over journalist strike
(The Campaign/In The News)

Journalists at the Fairfax Group face an uncertain future after the company maintained it would use strike-breakers to publish its newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Fin

11. Phil Burgess on Just The Facts
(The Campaign/In The News)

...Here’s what Burgess said: phil_burgess  “The job of a public affairs leader or a public affairs group is to speak the truth, to speak clearly and plainly and to talk straight about what is ...

12. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...taff via e-mail that 550 of them will lose their jobs in yet another round of redundancies at the media group in order to create savings of $50 million. How does Kirk's pay packet compare? As at...

13. Fairfax journos return, bosses drop threats
(The Campaign/In The News)

THE Fairfax Media group has abandoned threats to lock out journalists and take legal action against them over a three-day strike, after a breakthrough in negotiations with the union over wages late ye

14. The Age has refused to let some senior journos go
(The Campaign/In The News)

THE Age has left behind a small and unhappy group of senior journalists who asked to go, but were refused. This was revealed after Fairfax puts away the axe after slashing more than 100 editori

15. 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

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

...t. 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 formally anointed as CEO of Fairfax at a 9.30am b...

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

... 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. Read more ...

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

...entages". The investor snub at the company's annual general meeting in Melbourne came as the media group's largest shareholder and board member, John B. Fairfax, confronted the issue of a perso...

19. Fairfax board meets... but without Kirk
(The Campaign/In The News)

...'s deputy chairman and largest shareholder, John B Fairfax, are agitating for operational change at the group. Mr Fairfax has suffered more than anyone else from sharp falls in the media group's sha...

20. 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

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

...the chief executive. Why is it that the board effectively separates the print and online sections of the group into two distinct silos? The effect of this separation is to confuse commissioning, obfus...

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

...ia 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". ...

23. Crunch time for Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ations with all major institutional shareholders last week, and signals a change in tack for the media group, with Fairfax expected to confirm Brian McCarthy as chief executive next week, accelerat...

24. Dividends, Debt Remain Key Issues For Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ne of the issues facing the media company at present. One of the other major issues is the level of group debt, which is generating an increase in calls from investors for dividends to be cut t...

25. Cut to Fairfax dividend likely
(The Campaign/In The News)

...airfax Media, John B. Fairfax's venerable private company, Marinya Media, has cleared the path for the group to cut its dividend to reduce its $2.5 billion debt. In a rare public comment, Mr Fairfa...

26. McCarthy warned
(The Campaign/In The News)

...l Press for 20 years before its merger with Fairfax Media last year, will be confirmed as the enlarged group's new chief executive at a board meeting on Wednesday. Mr McCarthy replaces former Al...