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

...at it is clueless about the future of its flagship products. It is significant that of all the major media companies in Australia, Fairfax was alone in not being a backer of the Future of Journalism...

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

... worked. In fact, all indications are that the cost-cutting has been a disaster for mainstream news media companies, forcing them into a vicious downward spiral. As quality declines, so does cir...

3. Who is Brian McCarthy?
(The Campaign/Editorial)

"Brian McCarthy detests publicity... Perched on a smallish table in front of an 1879 portrait of David Syme in the Spencer Street building that houses (The Age), McCarthy adjusted his tie as if

4. Media mayhem likely
(The Campaign/In The News)

AUSTRALIAN media companies may be poised to follow the lead of their foreign counterparts and begin slashing the value of assets such as broadcast licences and newspapers. With traditional media bei

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

...fax Media, owner of The Age, will give a speech at the Sydney Institute entitled: 'The public good, public companies, and the future of print media and quality journalism'. Kirk's speech is being ad...

6. Sackings could kill papers, expert warns
(The Campaign/In The News)

NEWSPAPER companies risk dying "a death of a thousand cuts" if they fire staff en masse without drastically reinventing their businesses, a leading international media consultant warned A

7. Write-downs anticipated
(The Campaign/In The News)

According to GSJBW, the companies with the highest level of intangible assets relative to total assets are Austereo at 90 per cent and Fairfax Media at 78 per cent. Mr Guerra said the media profit r

8. Ron Walker's message to Fairfax staff
(The Campaign/In The News)

... “It has been a privilege to lead Fairfax Media during this period of great change and challenge for media companies all over the world. A lot has been achieved and I thank especially the Board ...

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

...ing until they disappear up their own a-sehole." And earlier he said: "Most of the major media companies are incompetent in making the transition” to new media. They had assigned “the B...

10. Executive pay packets under fire
(The Campaign/In The News)

As the annual general meeting season for Australia’s public companies gets underway, executives and directors are bracing for a barrage of criticism from angry investors over high pay and bonuses. W

11. PM wants quality journalism to continue
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called on media companies not to abandon quality journalism as they wrestle with an increasingly digitalised media landscape. Media bosses met on the Gold Coast for the

12. Kirk exits Fairfax, McCarthy acting CEO
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... ''It has been a privilege to lead Fairfax Media during this period of great change and challenge for media companies all over the world,'' Mr Kirk said in the statement.   ''A lot has been...

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

...with improved conditions, rates of pay and healthy workplaces at nine of New Zealand’s major market research companies. Every day of the week the “SurveyTalk” call centre in the Auckland shopping di...

14. Mastheads Down
(The Campaign/In The News)

WHEN big companies are hit by economic downturns, the common refrain of executives who run them is that the remedy lies in returning to core business. Ventures outside a company's main interests tha

15. Falloon joins Kirk in pay bonanza
(The Campaign/In The News)

...1 million, including a $15 million "redundancy payment" for PBL's demerger into media and gaming companies. Read more   ...

16. Reports of paper's demise exaggerated
(The Campaign/In The News)

The problem facing newspapers, writes Powers, is that media companies have been slow to appreciate the particular strengths and limitations of different media forms and to work them accordingly. Rea

17. Kirk quits as Fairfax CEO
(The Campaign/In The News)

... ''It has been a privilege to lead Fairfax Media during this period of great change and challenge for media companies all over the world,'' Mr Kirk said in the statement. Read more ...

18. Ad downturn continues to hit Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

... volumes falling. Fairfax, like all newspaper publishers, is feeling the pinch from the slowing economy as companies pull back their advertising spend. According to broker Goldman Sachs JB Were, ac...