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

... future they are thinking about. The cost of going to 5% for all their staff (they are currently offering between 4% and 4.5%) is less than the pay rise the top 7 executives got in the 2006-07 finan...

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

...g costs. A blow-out to allow proper coverage of a news event was not welcome. The already-tenuous nexus between newspapers and their readers was frayed just that little bit more, and the slow break...

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

...t six months. It is interesting to note there has been no corresponding fall in executive remuneration. Between them, the top seven executives at Fairfax earn more than $4.5million. That's more tha...

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

...quot;marquee pages" in sections such as Spectrum will be kept in-house because of the "synergies between editors, designers and subeditors". This is an explicit recognition that quality...

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

...hanistan and the war in Iraq. These and other Fairfax journalists have been the thin black line standing between the Australian public and the forces of ignorance and obfuscation. It is important to...

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

...hdrew a modest $15,000 sponsorship that honoured two of its journalists: Robert Haupt and Peter Smark). *Between 2005 and 2007, Fairfax directors voted to increase their pay by 90% from $2.1 million...

7. David Kirk's $5 million mix-up
(The Campaign/In The News)

...n communication over who had to inform the market. The company said late yesterday that on five occasions between June last year and late last month it had purchased more than 1.5 million shares wo...

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

...fter chief executive David Kirk announced a "business improvement program". Under that program, between 11% and 14% of the two newspapers' editorial staff will be made redundant. Read more...

9. Gambling with the readers
(The Campaign/In The News)

Last year, when having to travel frequently between Sydney and Melbourne, I decided that the operating doctrine of Qantas could be called CINOP — Customer Irritated, Not Our Problem.  There were

10. The decline of full-blooded political reporting
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ve severe consequences. Serious journalism - mainly from newspapers - not only provides a crucial linkage between politicians and citizens but it also has the capacity and the power to intervene in ...

11. Kirk: Former Fairfax editors 'poisonous' and 'Chicken Littles'
(The Campaign/In The News)

...nstitute, Mr Kirk said Eric Beecher, an independent media proprietor who edited The Sydney Morning Herald between 1984 and 1987, was "a poisonous critic" who thought Fairfax Media should &...

12. Ex-Fairfax editor lashes old bosses
(The Campaign/In The News)

...f life in Fairfax Media's newspaper. In a speech last week, Gawenda talked of a dysfunctional relationship between management and journalists. Read more ...

13. Former editor decries 'chilling' job cuts
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ered tonight at Melbourne University, Gawenda says the decision by Fairfax Media, owner of The Age, to cut between 45 and 55 editorial staff was a "failure of imagination". Read more ...

14. Payback as Fairfax sacks Michael Gawenda
(The Campaign/In The News)

...tor, long-standing senior writer and triple Walkley Award winner. He joined the paper in 1970, was editor between 1997 and 2004 and was the Fairfax correspondent in Washington until 2007. He is now ...

15. Kirk of 1138 Days
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...avid Kirk was appointed chief executive officer of Fairfax Media on October 17, 2005. Some1138 days passed between then and when Kirk spoke to a staff  meeting at The Age in Melbourne on Thursday...

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

... The strike has the full support of the NUW, and is part of an ongoing transnational organising campaign between the NUW and Unite to fight for the rights of market & social research workers. As...

17. Kirk resigns, shares jump 6pc
(The Campaign/In The News)

...irfax two years ago - a move driven by Mr Kirk. However, there is believed to have been a power struggle between the two men, with Mr McCarthy backed by Fairfax's 14 per cent shareholder John B Fa...