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

... Amelia Dalton Andras Berkes-Brandl Andrew Garvey Andrew Murphie Andy Zakeli Angela Briant Anisha Khopkar Anna Claude Annabel Stafford Ashlee Betteridge Bec Pl...

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

...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 right. Only it’s their fu...

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

...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 of thes...

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

...l 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 take place in ...

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

...ise to $3.41 million - the equivalent of 10 prime ministers or 30 top notch journalists. Kirk and co-CEO Brian McCarthy are paid more than the Australian Cabinet (including the PM). Their salaries cou...

6. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...7 (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 Australian prime ministers or $2.43 ...

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

...urnalism, 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 ...

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

...aff 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, Kirk (who is r...

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

... and goodwill of Christmas be yours through the coming year.   Kind regards Brian McCarthy ...

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

...than two hundred papers owned by Rural Press, which merged with Fairfax Media last year. Its former CEO, Brian McCarthy, who's famous for what he would call "rigorous cost-control", is now d...

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

THE two top executives at Fairfax Media, David Kirk and Brian McCarthy - the architects of a program to cut 550 jobs - earned record pay for the year to June. Fairfax chief executive officer Mr Ki

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

...f 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 yesterday tha...

13. 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

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

...-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 sharemarket...

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

...y Greenslade: "The bosses of Australia's Fairfax Media, chief executive David Kirk and his sidekick Brian McCarthy, are earning record pay as they make 550 staff redundant." See Greenslade's...

16. Fairfax increases cuts, bosses earn record pay
(The Campaign/In The News)

...llion in salary, bonuses, superannuation and shares, a 24 percent rise over last year. Australian boss Brian McCarthy’s pay package, for his first full year at Fairfax, stood at $2.43 million. The ...

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

... 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 million ...

18. $3.4 million Kirk talks of belt-tightening
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... pay jump 23.8% in 2008. He is now paid more than 10 Australian prime ministers. And on August 26 he and Brian McCarthy announced that 550 people would lose their jobs. But check out this line from Ki...

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

.... 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 longer pub...

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

SPECULATION is growing that likely new Fairfax Media chief executive Brian McCarthy could restructure senior management. It is likely he will elevate more former key Rural Press executives to top po

21. McCarthyism begins
(The Campaign/In The News)

... of the most important board meetings in the history of the company, which ended with the anointment of Brian McCarthy as its new chief executive and Ron Walker retaining his position as chairman. ...

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

...d to introduce more cost cutting 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 ...

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

...taff 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 ...

24. Fairfax at the crossroads
(The Campaign/In The News)

THE direction of Fairfax Media will be decided this morning at a board meeting in Sydney, at which Brian McCarthy is expected to be appointed chief executive. Investors and analysts expect the an

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

...aving 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 operations, with The Australian Financial Review the only pa...

26. Does McCarthy "get" the internet?
(The Campaign/In The News)

...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. Read more ...

27. Kirk exits Fairfax, McCarthy acting CEO
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ef executive officer of Fairfax Media as the media company struggles to reverse a slide in its stock. Brian McCarthy has been named as acting CEO, according to a company statement to the ASX. ''I...

28. Kirk loses power struggle
(The Campaign/In The News)

...rk's resignation, which is effective immediately, is expected to see former Rural Press chief executive Brian McCarthy elevated to the CEO's role. Shares of Fairfax Media rose nearly 9 per cent to a...

29. 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

30. 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