1. Holding Fire On Picket Lines At Printers
(The Campaign/Actions)

...in illustrate Fairfax management’s attempt to intimidate staff fighting to uphold quality journalism. First, the Workplace Ombudsman is investigating potential unlawful action by the company in its...

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

...the international community.  Decades ago, another Fairfax journalist named David Jenkins began his first overseas posting to Indonesia. Arriving in 1967, he grew in experience to become a highly...

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

... not informed union reps about the latest restructuring, he said it was more important to let staff know first. He seemed to have forgotten that union reps ARE also staff. Although Taranaki DN membe...

4. First they came for Mike Carlton, then...
(The Campaign/In The News)

Ben Pobjie remembers the heady days when Fairfax was the symbol of all that was good in the world and our dreams came in broadsheet format. Read more

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

The Fairfax Media brand does have a somewhat unique situation. As a “parent” brand, the bulk of general awareness and connection lies with its masthead brands (The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, etc)

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

...000 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 through a strike. Some say they will donate it...

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

...the United States.  I believe firmly in the company and its future.   We produce first-class journalism in print, online and on the air.  We have innovative sales people....

8. Papers must return to core business
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...experience - to junk the history and the traditions of newspapers and journalism, but it was one of the first to do so, certainly in Australia.  Read more ...

9. 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

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

...e company's annual report released yesterday has revealed. His total remuneration package - in his first full year at Fairfax - stood at $2.43 million. Read more ...

11. Quality journallism: the need only grows
(The Campaign/In The News)

...trotted around to speak in schools. A young woman interviewed me for the school newspaper. This was her first question: Why should we believe a single word you say? I've been thinking about that eve...

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

...tives called "the Ron Walker test". "Our indigenous Wunala Dreaming plane was one of the first that had the lay-flat bed in first class and we devised a special test," said Ken ...

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

...ion 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 number was about 70 percent above the ...

14. 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

15. Market research firm used by Fairfax on strike
(The Campaign/In The News)

...llow workers to take annual leave like all other research call centre employees can. The strike is the first strike of the Calling for Change campaign. The Unite Union represents around 400 research...

16. David Kirk will answer the phones
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ff in Melbourne yesterday (he was described as a "wee man with very tiny hands" - this was the first time any staff had actually seen the CEO even though he has held the top job for three ye...

17. Kirk finally talks to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Three months after the editorial staff first called on Fairfax Media chief executive officer David Kirk to address employees on the tumultuous changes at the company, the Fairfax senior management tea

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

FAIRFAX Media says it remains in talks about the sale of its Southern Star TV business, downplaying a report it had sold the asset for $160 million. The newspaper and radio company's board will m

19. McCarthy - the tough guy
(The Campaign/In The News)

... sight of the uncompromising corporate culture that shaped him. In December 2006, when Fairfax Media first announced it was taking over Rural Press, there was a steely determination that the Rura...

20. Walker insists his job is safe
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media chairman Ron Walker insists his job at the newspaper and radio company is safe following the resignation of chief executive David Kirk. The former Liberal Party president told Busine