1. Sign our Petition
(The Campaign/Actions)

...ters, sub-editors, photographers, artists, designers and web producers have had their wages frozen soon after executive managers were rewarded with a 45 per cent increase in bonuses alone - from $1...

2. Richard Glover's Pledge
(The Campaign/Actions)

... Robert Duong Rochelle Ferris Ross Bell Ross Peden Sally Frigo Sarah Rogan Sean Raftery Shannon Molloy Simon de Bruyn Simon Sheldon Sonja Freeman Steve Wood...

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

...hat occurs when you retrench a generation of your most senior staff. I was talking with a young reporter after the job cuts announcement, who told me how heavily he relied on his senior colleagues for...

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

...cutting model. Yet all we have seen from this company and this editor over the last three years is round after round of cost-cutting and a subsequent decline in editorial standards due to severe staff...

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

...his top-down ultimatum delivered today stands to directly breach undertakings the company made yesterday afternoon in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission not to lock out staff who return to...

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

...ort-sighted decision. Ms Burrow said it was deplorable that the company was axing 550 jobs just a week after it announced a 47% increase in profit to a record $387 million. “Staff at these newspap...

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

... investigating potential unlawful action by the company in its sacking of popular columnist Mike Carlton after he refused to file his Saturday column for The Sydney Morning Herald. The ABC’s Richard G...

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

...e. It resulted in a furious reaction by the Indonesian dictator at the time. In hindsight, his article (“After Marcos, now for the Suharto billions”) is regarded as a watershed moment, and even today ...

9. Enterprise Agreement Breakthrough
(The Campaign/Editorial)

After a significant breakthrough in the enterprise bargaining agreement negotiations we are returning to work tomorrow as we had originally resolved to do. There will be a formal proposal to vote la

10. Richard Glover takes the pledge!
(The Campaign/Actions)

...investigating potential unlawful action by the company in its sacking of popular columnist Mike Carlton after he refused to file his Saturday column for The Sydney Morning Herald. The ABC’s Richard ...

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

... or at least the pruning shears. On June 30 Fairfax newspapers around NZ held emergency staff meetings after a story was accidentally put up on the Fairfax intranet, two days ahead of the official a...

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

...und on page 11 of the financial report of the company's Annual Report, here  Fairfax shares plunged after the Crikey report was published, closing down 17 cents to $2.73, a decline of 5.86% - tha...

13. 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

14. Fairfax directors’ $22 million dividend
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...fax newspapers like The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will be fighting to produce quality journalism after 14% of their editorial staff have been sacked. So what could the directors buy for thei...

15. Secrecy surrounded establishment of Fairfax 'sub hub'
(The Campaign/In The News)

...nt of outsourcing part of the editorial production of its flagship Sydney and Melbourne newspapers, days after the move was announced as part of a redundancy program for 165 local journalists. Read fu...

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

... Kirk once again was unable to explain how he will guarantee that quality journalism can be maintained after cutting editorial staff by 14%. He defended his massive pay rise by saying it was commens...

17. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk is worth two Australian prime ministers more in 2008 than he was in 2007 after getting a 23.8% pay increase. In the past 12 months, the Fairfax share price has plunged 40%

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

...as 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 yesterday. Read more. ...

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

...- their previous 12-month low - and touched on a new low-water mark of $2.50.  This comes just days after CEO David Kirk completed an international roadshow presentation to overseas investment in...

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

... a cost-cutting programme to reduce its workforce by 5%. Shocked journalists held a stop-work meeting after management told staff via email of the cuts, which will see 180 journalists lose their j...

21. Sackings could kill papers, expert warns
(The Campaign/In The News)

...l media consultant warned Australian publishing executives this week. The admonition comes a fortnight after Fairfax Media announced it intended to cut 550 jobs -- 160 from its New Zealand business...

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

...nd 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 editorial staff from The Age...

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

Good Afternoon.   Yesterday, I was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Media Limited.  It is an honour to lead such an outstanding media company, and I shall work ti

24. Sacked Age editor says: Take this job and ...
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ant when he was abruptly removed as editor-in-chief of The Age and The Sunday Age on August 27, the day after chief executive David Kirk announced a "business improvement program". Under t...

25. ABC interview with David Kirk
(The Campaign/In The News)

Fairfax CEO David Kirk speaks with the ABC's Peter Ryan on Monday after the Alliance members have returned to work. peter_ryan_and_david_kirk 

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

...ig Golding and Tim Clayton, asked to be made redundant -- with Clayton having already left the company after getting the nod for his application. Read more ...

27. Reality of retrenchments
(The Campaign/In The News)

 For the show to work, we have to have a fair amount of compassion for the Big Cheeses - after all, they're just trying to look after the shareholders; the personal bonuses are just the icing

28. Jaspan sacked as editor of The Age
(The Campaign/In The News)

ANDREW JASPAN has been sacked as editor-in-chief of Fairfax Media's Melbourne flagship, The Age, a day after the company announced 550 job cuts. Read more.

29. Fairfax strike-breakers take over as staff walk out
(The Campaign/In The News)

...he Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review in a high-stakes battle with staff after journalists yesterday walked out until Monday in protest at 550 planned job cuts. Read mo...

30. Fairfax to cull 70 journalists from SMH
(The Campaign/In The News)

MORE ructions are expected at Fairfax Media after revelations the company has boosted its planned staff cull at flagship newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald from a maximum 60 to 70 journalists. Fai