1. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

...eview, Business Review Weekly, The Newcastle Herald, The Illawarra Mercury, smh.com.au, theage.com.au, WAToday.com.au, and Brisbanetimes.com.au. Reporters, artists, photographers, graphic designers...

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

Fairfax management announced today it had increased the minimum number of staff to be made redundant by 50 per cent and admitted that it is targeting all staff, including subeditors, reporters, design

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

... Fairfax member, Members of your union’s negotiating team met with Fairfax management earlier today, following a request from the company. Ruth Pollard, Gerard Noonan, Chris Warren and Clai...

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

... news and the diversity of information sources, said ACTU President Sharan Burrow. The peak union body today threw its support behind the embattled employees of Fairfax and called for the board o...

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

National Fairfax house committee met today on tactics and has decided to hold fire on picket lines at Chullora and Tullamarine for the moment. Protest gatherings are being held at One Darling Island i

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

..., his article (“After Marcos, now for the Suharto billions”) is regarded as a watershed moment, and even today remains required reading for university students across the nation. Brendan Nicholson, ...

7. Welcome back to work!
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Last Thursday you resolved to walk out together. Today, keeping your word, you came back to work together. Congratulations on your solidarity and fortitude over the past four days – it was a mighty

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

... to join in the public protest rally outside The Age building, 250 Spencer Street, Melbourne from 2.30pm today, plus visit the website www.fairgofairfax.org.au for latest updates and to sign the petit...

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

...s. Be strong, be united - your fight is our fight. I will be thinking of you as you hold your meetings today (Sunday). Regards, Carol Clark Boyle Taranaki Newspapers Chapel Secretary EPMU...

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

An astonishing story published by Crikey.com.au today begins; "An extraordinarily generous scheme to reward senior staff based on company performance has been exposed at Fairfax and sheds new li

11. Staff continue the battle
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... redundancy until they have certainty around their rate of pay? Join your colleagues, and your union, today. Call Claire O’Rourke on 0412 984 925 or email claire.orourke@alliance.org.au to get invo...

12. Planned Action Today
(The Campaign/Actions)

A series of protests and pickets are planned for Fairfax staff today. Newcastle - Following the success of today's rally at the Hunter Street mall, a further public rally will be held at 4.30pm at C

13. Sunday information meetings
(The Campaign/Actions)

We are holding information meetings for members at 2pm today to answer any questions you may have and report any other developments. The meetings will be held in the following locations:

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

Today, the Australian sharemarket fell 2%. Meanwhile, shares in Fairfax Media fell 4.5% to $2.75. That means David Kirk's shareholding of 1.97 million shares is worth $5.41 million. Kirk may want to r

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

... after 550 people have lost their jobs. Read the story and listen to the report on ABC Radio's The World Today ...

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

...by journalists last week. The Workplace Ombudsman has summoned Fairfax executives to a meeting in Sydney today at which Carlton's dismissal will be raised during a review of industrial action at the c...

17. Union to talk job cuts with Fairfax staff
(The Campaign/In The News)

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) will hold talks with Fairfax Media employees today over plans to cut 550 jobs. Read more.

18. 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

19. David Kirk's $5 million mix-up
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media's chief executive, David Kirk, has taken more than a year to disclose some share purchases worth millions of dollars following a mix-up in communication over who had to inform the mark

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

...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. ...

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

...g reporters at Fairfax Media's Sydney flagship newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald, will be told from today whether their applications to be made redundant have been approved. Yesterday, the chief...

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

... to The Sydney Institute last night. The Fairfax share price was hammered to another record low in trade today - just $2.17 per share - down from the previous low of $2.23. Since the Kirk-orchestrated...

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

...s possible, starting with The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and The Australian Financial Review today.  I shall be meeting Melbourne-based staff next Monday and TradeMe staff in New...

24. Chairman Walker takes to the air - first class
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ecause we thought if Ron could fit into that bed then anyone could fit into the bed. He did and he will today." Standing at 198 centimetres, Mr Walker, chairman of Fairfax Media, owner of The Ag...

25. The Andrew Olle Media Lecture 2008
(The Campaign/In The News)

"What today’s media owners do, of course, is a perfectly legitimate and proper business enterprise. Many are only interested in building wealth…not in building value. Not in building the future

26. Fairfax employees to meet over redundancies
(The Campaign/In The News)

... start forcing redundancies there could be moves by some members to up the temperature,” Mr Harris said today. Although Fairfax extended its deadline for volunteers until tomorrow, Mr Harris said t...

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

...s understood Mr McCarthy will be formally anointed as CEO of Fairfax at a 9.30am board meeting in Sydney today. Read more ...

28. Rural Press deal made Kirk's job untenable
(The Campaign/In The News)

...s position as CEO of Fairfax Media has been redundant ever since he engineered the Rural Press deal. So today’s announcement that he is actually leaving was surprising only for the time it took for ...

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

Today’s announcement that David Kirk is actually leaving was surprising only for the time it took for the company to realise the obvious. The fact was Brian McCarthy ran the bulk of the operation

30. David Kirk heads for the fire escape
(The Campaign/In The News)

...'s been a terrible week for the company that publishes much of the best journalism in the country, and today's announcement of the resignation of CEO David Kirk is only the latest installment. Ki...