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

...bsp;                $336,000 Deputy Chairman: Mark Burrows     $180,000 Other Non-Executive Director&...

2. Email Julia Gillard
(The Campaign/Actions)

... Ms Gillard via email, try using one of the following methods. The Hon Julia Gillard Deputy Prime Minister; Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations; Minister for Education...

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

...ing 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. Almost a third...

4. Fairfax Members Vote To Strike
(The Campaign/Actions)

...k of any real strategy from the company." On Wednesday August 26, Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk and Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy announced that 550 staff would be cut. The staff reductions would ta...

5. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...e equivalent of 10 PMs when in 2007 (when he was paid $2.75 million) he was worth just 8 PMs. And Kirk’s deputy, former Rural Press boss Brian McCarthy, is paid the equivalent of more than seven Au...

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

...t a cost 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 ...

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

...e-mail to staff announcing 550 redundancies, Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk (who is paid $3.41 million) and Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy (who is paid $2.43 million) have refused to meet with staff. Now, Ki...

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

... There is much to be done.  Over the next month or so, I shall proceed just as I did when I became Deputy CEO and the head of Australian Publishing and Printing for Fairfax in mid 2007.&...

9. Media Watch finds 'churnalism' at Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...former CEO, Brian McCarthy, who's famous for what he would call "rigorous cost-control", is now deputy CEO of Fairfax. I wonder if, as staff redundancies mount, we can expect to see more of...

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

...ng 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 and newspaper staff via email yes...

11. The human cost of newspaper redundancies
(The Campaign/In The News)

On the same day that Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk and Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy announced 550 redundancies, a video was released farewelling 70 journalists made redundant at the Atlanta Journal-Consti

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

... a bottom-up-driven process, not a Draconian top-down diktat."   In reality, Kirk and his deputy CEO Brian McCarthy did indeed issue a diktat on August 26. Their e-mail told staff, and...

13. Deputy PM concerned
(The Campaign/In The News)

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard told Paul Bongiorno on Ten Network's Meet The Press: "We want to see quality and diversity - certainly the Fairfax newspapers are part of our quality and diver

14. Former Fairfax director praises Walkley awards
(The Campaign/In The News)

... $15,000 a year - contrast that with the $3.4 million paid to David Kirk, or the $2.4 million paid to his deputy Brian McCarthy. Or the 1,081,044 shares owned by Fairfax chair Ron Walker. Or the $4.5 ...

15. Vow to keep up standards a crucial test for Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...s to leave. Others might suggest it goes well beyond that, to a mindset inadvertently unveiled by Kirk's deputy, Brian McCarthy, in May last year during an interview with The Bulletin magazine (no ...

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

...ments by ex-staff and other shareholders over Fairfax CEO David Kirk's $3.41 million salary package, and deputy CEO Brian McCarthy's $2.43 million package. Read the full report here ...

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

...director David Kirk. The surprise move came amid growing speculation that supporters of the company's deputy chairman and largest shareholder, John B Fairfax, are agitating for operational change...

18. Rural Press managers stung by Fairfax fall
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX MEDIA'S deputy chief executive, Brian McCarthy, told an investor conference that former Rural Press managers, including himself, entered margin loans to buy Fairfax shares when the regional

19. SMH editor sacked
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ly. Shortly after his departure, staff were told in an email that Oakley had not yet been replaced. Deputy editor Michael Millett will be putting out the Friday newspaper. Read more ...

20. Who is Brian McCarthy?
(The Campaign/Editorial)

"Brian McCarthy detests publicity... Perched on a smallish table in front of an 1879 portrait of David Syme in the Spencer Street building that houses (The Age), McCarthy adjusted his tie as if

21. Ron Walker's message to Fairfax staff
(The Campaign/In The News)

...r advanced on local and international peers in adapting the business to the modern digital world.” The Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Mr Brian McCarthy, will act as interim Chief Executive until ...

22. Decision day for Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...y to discuss who will permanently replace former chief executive David Kirk, who resigned last week. Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy, who has temporarily filled the role, is expected to be anointed. Re...

23. Fairfax facing crisis as chief is ousted
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...y Morning Herald resigned, and the two departures confirmed the depth of the company's problems. Kirk's deputy, Brian McCarthy, looks set to get the top job. It is assumed that the recent moves are ...

24. David Kirk quits as Fairfax boss
(The Campaign/In The News)

...drew Jaspan was unceremoniously dumped as editor-in-chief of The Age in Melbourne and replaced with his deputy. The departure of Oakley after just over three years as editor came on a day of wil...

25. Another Fairfax editor sacked
(The Campaign/In The News)

...drew Jaspan was unceremoniously dumped as editor-in-chief of The Age in Melbourne and replaced with his deputy. The departure of Oakley after just over three years as editor came on a day of wil...

26. Kirk quits as Fairfax CEO
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ive officer of Fairfax Media as the media company struggles to reverse a slide in its stock. Fairfax's Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy has been named as acting CEO, according to a company statement to th...

27. Kirk departs
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ts chief executive David Kirk had resigned with immediate effect, to be replaced on an interim basis by deputy CEO Brian McCarthy. In a statement to the stock exchange, Fairfax did not give a...