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

...y pay rise, is currently less than half what Fairfax CEO David Kirk pays himself (and less than what the chief financial officer, Sankar Narayan, pays himself). But Fairfax management’s “plan” for ...

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

...he news that the company would wipe $50million off its wages bill. Shares rose 5 per cent on the back of chief executive David Kirk's announcement. But, as I write this, the price is back in the dumps...

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

... of cost-cutting. It now says 60 to 70 positions 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 Mo...

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

On Tuesday, using the Orwellian title "Business Improvement Program," Fairfax chief executive David Kirk and deputy Brian McCarthy said they would cut 550 jobs to save $50 million a year.

5. Fairfax flack Bruce Wolpe turns up in Denver
(The Campaign/In The News)

...s since the disastrous takeover of the company by Warwick Fairfax two decades ago, its corporate affairs chief Bruce Wolpe was thousands of kilometres away in Denver, Colorado, offering free commentar...

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

Telstra's outgoing public policy chief Phil Burgess speaking at the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch in Sydney yesterday, doesn’t think much of the Fairfax Media web site Just The Facts http

7. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... of Fairfax at a time when their employees are wondering what the future holds. Even the company’s chief financial officer Sankar Narayan, is earning $1.4 million (and that's up from $1.25 milli...

8. 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

9. Fairfax sacks lawyers, 'timid journalism' fear
(The Campaign/In The News)

...of more timid journalism, by a company now transfixed by the ruthless cost-cutting mentality of deputy chief executive Brian McCarthy, whose past record at Rural Press is well known. Read more ...

10. Fairfax CEO Kirk reluctant to speak to staff
(The Campaign/In The News)

...xton Speakers Bureau) will again avoid speaking to Fairfax employees. "Next Tuesday, David Kirk, chief executive of Fairfax Media, owner of The Age, will give a speech at the Sydney Institute...

11. Fairfax attacks rival over bad news
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media chief executive David Kirk has singled out The Australian for special attack over his company's sacking of 550 staff and a strike by angry journalists, blaming the newspaper for "a

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

...l be told from today whether their applications to be made redundant have been approved. Yesterday, the chief executive of Fairfax's NSW and ACT metropolitan newspapers, Lloyd Whish-Wilson, said in...

13. Low-quality journalism erodes the Fairfax brands
(The Campaign/In The News)

...depend on. Read more Contrast this with David Kirk's head-in-the-sand perspective: "Fairfax Media chief David Kirk says the strength of the reaction to the company's sacking of 550 workers was ...

14. Fairfax issues vouchers and bonuses
(The Campaign/In The News)

...rather more serious monetary reward: a $2000 bonus in their pay packets and a nice thankyou letter from chief David Kirk. Sources say it is the first time staff have received cash for working throug...

15. 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

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

...e casualty of the company's plan to make 550 people redundant 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 ann...

17. Kirk: quality outcry means public is "very invested"
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media chief David Kirk says the strength of the reaction to the company's sacking of 550 workers was because the public feels "very invested" in its brands.Mr Kirk told a digital

18. Martin hits out at Fairfax cut-backs
(The Campaign/In The News)

... Fairfax Media, owner of The Age, of abandoning serious journalism... "How does David Kirk (Fairfax chief executive) seriously believe he can get rid of 550 jobs and maintain Fairfax's excellenc...

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

...ying to look after the shareholders; the personal bonuses are just the icing on the cake. It's not the chief executive's fault that we're heading for recession now, is it? He or she is just trying ...

20. Record pay for Fairfax bosses as jobs axed
(The Campaign/In The News)

...cCarthy - the architects of a program to cut 550 jobs - earned record pay for the year to June. Fairfax chief executive officer Mr Kirk received a total of $3.41 million in salary, bonuses, superann...

21. 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.

22. Fairfax sheds 550 jobs and quality journalism
(The Campaign/In The News)

...rning Herald and The Age, according to staff who yesterday rejected a company plan to shed 550 jobs. Chief executive David Kirk and his deputy, Brian McCarthy, told the Australian Stock Exchange ...

23. Executive pay packets under fire
(The Campaign/In The News)

...dicates executives haven’t quite felt the same level of pain.... Over at media company Fairfax Media, chief executive David Kirk received total remuneration that rose 24% from $2.76 million to $3....

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

...dentify specific editorial areas where jobs would be lost.   Also on August 26 Don Churchill, chief executive and publisher - Victorian metropolitan and community publishing, told Media Al...

25. Roy Greenslade: Fairfax bosses' pay upsets journalists
(The Campaign/In The News)

The Guardian newspaper's media blogger Roy Greenslade: "The bosses of Australia's Fairfax Media, chief executive David Kirk and his sidekick Brian McCarthy, are earning record pay as they make 55

26. Downsized to fit
(The Campaign/In The News)

 IN Extra, a quarterly newsletter for The Age readers, acting editor-in-chief Paul Ramadge writes: "This is an exciting time to be in the media. It's a particularly exciting time to be at

27. Kirk: Former Fairfax editors 'poisonous' and 'Chicken Littles'
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media chief executive David Kirk last night lashed out at two former Fairfax editors critical of the media company, labelling them "poisonous" and "Chicken Littles". Spea

28. It's wrong to sacrifice content
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ve sharply criticised cuts to editorial staff at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. (Fairfax Media chief executive David Kirk last week said that the loss of about 100 journalists at the two ne...

29. Kirk's online investment sours
(The Campaign/In The News)

One of David Kirk's first investments as chief executive of Fairfax Media, a $5.2 million play in the internet company Mooter Media, has turned sour after Mooter admitted doubts over whether it can

30. ABC's Scott on promoting quality journalism
(The Campaign/In The News)

Former Fairfax Media editotrial chief and now ABC managing director Mark Scott described as "danger all round" a question asking whether "running newspapers is better left to newspaper