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

...me Minister. The top seven executives at Fairfax earn more than the entire Commonwealth ministry of 30 people. Check out the annual report. Here’s what the top seven paid themselves over the pas...

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

...ers are expected to manage more efficiently - but he also appears to realise that, as the competition for people's attention becomes more intense, it is those companies that hold their nerve and inves...

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

... plans announced today, subeditors will bear an unfair burden of having to staff both mastheads with less people and being forced to work five out of every six weekends, destroying their ability to pl...

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

...s Gallery. Be prepared for a likely scenario. In earlier disputes, the company delivered letters to people’s homes threatening to lock out. This is an attempt by the company to intimidate you an...

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

...is another worrying case of a short-sighted push for profits by bonus-driven executives at the expense of people’s livelihoods and the company’s long-term viability, says the ACTU. The decision that u...

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

...mission of Truth and Friendship in June 2008. His scoop threw a spotlight on an important story that many people in power had hoped would be ignored. He has also played a pivotal role in The Age’s cov...

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

...iance will finalise the drafting this week. Resolving the collective agreement is critical so that people who are considering applying for redundancy can have some certainty about their rights ...

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

...e submissions. After the the first round of the consultation process, we learned that instead of two more people having to go it would only be one - and that there had been a volunteer, so everything ...

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

...e Age in Melbourne. Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance federal secretary Chris Warren said, "...people just feel frustrated at the lack of any real strategy from the company." On Wedn...

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

Meetings of Fairfax staff yesterday involved people from all parts of the business - editorial, advertising, online and administration - who came together to protest against the staff cuts announced e

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

...rules we have is we don’t allow ‘no comment’. If it is something that we ought to be talking about, that people are asking about, that isn’t against the law to talk about then we should talk about ...

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

...Kirk added that senior salaries had been frozen for a year - albeit at the higher rate and only after 550 people have lost their jobs. Read the story and listen to the report on ABC Radio's The World ...

13. Sunday Age clings to "hope"
(The Campaign/In The News)

...n its editorial it hopes the company fully understands the implications for quality : "To lose 45-55 people will be painful and dispiriting. What we have been asked to do is to think hard, even ...

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

...bsp; We produce first-class journalism in print, online and on the air.  We have innovative sales people.  We have excellent results from our many print centres.  Our businesses are ...

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

ANDREW Jaspan was the first high-profile 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 d

16. Fairfax ruined by incompetence - mastheads trashed
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ve known privately for years - Australia's premier newspaper publisher was (and largely still is) run by people with no experience of or love for newspapers. People who are "bemused" they ...

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

...metres, Mr Walker, chairman of Fairfax Media, owner of The Age, had no problems, albeit he was one of 14 people privileged enough to sit in first class. Stretching out, he would have had enough room...

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

...arthy did indeed issue a diktat on August 26. Their e-mail told staff, and sharemarket analysts, that 550 people would have to lose their jobs in order to cut $50 million in costs. Neither Kirk nor Mc...

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

...irfax Media decided to cease its sponsorship of the Walkley Awards at the same time that it announced 550 people would lose their jobs. Fairfax had sponsored the award named in honour of two of its ow...

20. $3.4 million Kirk talks of belt-tightening
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...w 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 Kirk's speech to The Sydney Institu...

21. Kirk insults staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ia industry. But then, virtually no one on the Fairfax board has media experience either and they are the people who appointed Kirk and Hilmer. That's 10 years now that Fairfax has been run by people ...

22. B-grade managers and trash content
(The Campaign/In The News)

..."Most of the media organisations in Australia have B and C grade managers. They are not good businesspeople." As for Fairfax’s strategy of having a "tabloid" character online an...

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

...quot;Often boards meet without executive directors. It allows directors to speak freely without offending people." Read more  ...

24. More golden handcuffs?
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...nisters) would buy the equivalent of at least six top quality journalists - but instead Fairfax made 550 people redundant, including 15% of the editorial staff of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Ag...

25. Fairfax sackings don't change a thing
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ne" Ron Walker as chairman and the empire will be back where it belongs, in the safe hands of "people who know best". Read more ...