1. Sign our Petition
(The Campaign/Actions)

... big business agenda of its corporate managers. It is fundamentally unfair that Fairfax reporters, sub-editors, photographers, artists, designers and web producers have had their wages frozen soon...

2. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

...nterference by big business. Fair Go Fairfax is the official campaign site for working journalists and editorial staff at print publications and websites including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Su...

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

... who contributed to making The Age the PANPA newspaper of the year; skilful and dedicated reporters and editors who have filled Fairfax’s trophy cabinets with Walkley Awards and Quills over the pas...

4. Fair Go, Fairfax: Don't discount journalism
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... think they were in the case of Knight Ridder. There's a tendency over time with public ownership for the editorial presence in the corridors of power to decline.'' Mr. Appert of Goldman Sachs said...

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

...uential journalism requires an investment." These words, published in this paper yesterday by former editor and long-time media watcher Mark Day, have never rung more true than in the present cli...

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

...er of staff to be made redundant by 50 per cent and admitted that it is targeting all staff, including subeditors, reporters, designers and photographers, in its latest round of cost-cutting. It now s...

7. Richard Glover: I won't cross electronic picket line
(The Campaign/In The News)

Stalwart Alliance member and SMH columnist, Richard Glover, yesterday invited Herald editor, Alan Oakley on to his drivetime radio show on Sydney’s 2BL 702. Oakley was silly enough to agree. He got

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

Dear Fairfax member, Members of your union’s negotiating team met with Fairfax management earlier today, following a request from the company. Ruth Pollard, Gerard Noonan, Chris Warren

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

... long-term viability, says the ACTU. The decision that up to a third of those job cuts will come from the editorial departments of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will not only hurt the workers ...

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

...public knows about these matters can be traced back to his investigative reporting. Tom Hyland, foreign editor at The Age, managed to obtain a leaked copy of the Indonesia-East Timor Commission of T...

11. British Journalists: Be Strong. Be Proud. Be Victorious
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...nion of Journalists in the UK and Ireland we send you solidarity and support for your fight to defend the editorial integrity and quality of your papers. It is not possible to cut 550 jobs and not u...

12. Sydney Rally AM Friday
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Footage from the Sydney rally is now available. Media Alliance federal secretary, Christopher Warren, federal president, Patricia Amphlett and Media section president, Ruth Pollard address journalists

13. 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

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

Last Thursday you resolved to walk out together. Today, keeping your word, you came back to work together. Congratulations on your solidarity and fortitude over the past four days – it was a mighty

15. Just the facts
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax has launched its own web site to respond to Fair Go Fairfax. Go and read their announcements at http://fairfaxjustthefacts.com.au/justthefacts/ We’ve suggested they link here from their

16. Richard Glover interviews Alan Oakley
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ite his regular column for the paper's Saturday edition, because of the current strike by journalists and editorial staff. He was told that he would no longer be writing for the newspaper as a resul...

17. We're right behind you say Murdoch journos
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...ly note and condemn the lack of respect Fairfax management has shown for experience and the skills of sub-editors, indicating a basic lack of understanding on how good newspapers operate. We also co...

18. 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

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

...e 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 their $22 million? ...

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

FAIRFAX Media has begun its experiment 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 progra

21. Fairfax newspaper production to be outsourced
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media will outsource much of its editorial production function for its flagship Sydney and Melbourne newspapers to an offshoot of news agency Australian Associated Press, as part of a radical

22. Age Independence Committee writes to Kirk, Walker
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ot exist without the other. You maintain the cuts won’t affect quality. How can any disruption to proper editorial balance fail to put in jeopardy the vital teamwork and expertise that has, over the...

23. The stockbroker's view
(The Campaign/In The News)

...he Facts web site. In it, the broking firm writes that Fairfax had indicated that "the staff cuts in editorial will not affect the quality of its newspapers" and "the staff cuts in its ...

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

...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 commensurate on hitt...

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

Fairfax Media plans to cut up to 14% of the editorial staff from its metro daily newspapers. One of the affected papers, The Sunday Age, notes that sub-editors' jobs are among some of those to be lost

26. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...e, the redundancies are ripping the heart out of Fairfax newspapers. Of the 550 jobs to be lost, 120 editorial positions will be culled from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and The Age ...

27. 14% staff cut 'increased commitment to quality'
(The Campaign/In The News)

The redundancies announced at The Sydney Morning Herald will reduce up to 12% of the newspaper's editorial staff. The redundancies at The Age translate to a loss of up to 14% of editorial staff. But t

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

...members of a think tank rather than speaking personally to Fairfax employees has not been lost on those editorial staff considering taking redundancy, or those from other departments who have been ...

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

..., but were refused. This was revealed after Fairfax puts away the axe after slashing more than 100 editorial staff from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Read more ...

30. Fairfax annual general meeting - November 13
(The Campaign/Editorial)

The Fairfax Media annual general meeting will be held at 10.30am on Thursday, November 13 at Crown Casino in Melbourne. There are three items to be voted on: adopting the accounts, approving the remun