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

...son in terms of the pressures of public stock ownership,'' said Larry Jinks, who had been a Knight Ridder senior vice president for news and was a top executive at two of its papers. ''Particularly wi...

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

... talent, there's another more debilitating effect that occurs when you retrench a generation of your most senior staff. I was talking with a young reporter after the job cuts announcement, who told me...

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

...onuses alone - from $1.5 million in 2006 to $2.2 million in 2007. Ms Burrow said it was disturbing that senior management of Australian corporations like Fairfax, Qantas and Telstra were pushing for...

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

...eir contribution to the vitality of Australian democracy and regional security. Dr Clinton Fernandes is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies at the University of New South Wales. He has never been a...

5. Crikey: Secret Fairfax share scheme key to slash and burn
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...nishing story published by Crikey.com.au today begins; "An extraordinarily generous scheme to reward senior staff based on company performance has been exposed at Fairfax and sheds new light on ...

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

...s - when Fairfax merged with Rural Press in may last year they were trading above $5.40). Kirk added that senior salaries had been frozen for a year - albeit at the higher rate and only after 550 peop...

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

THE Age has left behind a small and unhappy group of senior journalists who asked to go, but were refused. This was revealed after Fairfax puts away the axe after slashing more than 100 editori

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

...e head of Australian Publishing and Printing for Fairfax in mid 2007.  I shall meet with the senior executives and discuss the businesses and the operations, and then put in place the or...

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

Fairfax was not the only newspaper company - at which senior management and the company board, invariably, contained not a single person with newspaper experience - to junk the history and the tradi

10. How, now, David Kirk
(The Campaign/Editorial)

According to the company web site (http://fairfaxjustthefacts.com.au/justthefacts/) David Kirk and other senior executives have made at least 12 public guarantees that the 550 redundancies announced b

11. 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

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

...in journalism at Melbourne University in early October. Gawenda is a former Age editor, long-standing senior writer and triple Walkley Award winner. He joined the paper in 1970, was editor betwee...

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

It's common management practice these days for senior executives to "walk the floor". Essentially, that means being visible in the business, literally walking around the office, speaking to

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

...% of the editorial staff of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. This time around will any Fairfax senior executives be paid golden handcuffs to help the new CEO settle in at Fairfax? ...

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

...f executive officer David Kirk to address employees on the tumultuous changes at the company, the Fairfax senior management team has announced open staff forums for Friday November 28 and Monday Decem...

16. Dividends, Debt Remain Key Issues For Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...cCarthy as interim CEO at least until a board meeting later this week. At any time the sudden loss of a senior executive is a cause for uncertainty, and investors usually dislike uncertainty, ...

17. Paper shuffle continues
(The Campaign/In The News)

... editor, Alan Oakley, was stepping down after three years in the position. He has been offered another senior post — "an important strategic role" — within Fairfax Media, owner of The Syd...