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

...bsp;      $120,000 Meanwhile, here’s what has happened to Fairfax’s share price over the past few years:   Talk about fiddling while Fairfax burns! Here’s w...

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

...ial commitments to office space and printing presses, and are subject to the vagaries of world newsprint prices. The job toll makes grim reading for those who have dedicated their lives to quality j...

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

... and shedding staff. The cost-cutting frenzy is an attempt to shore up newspaper groups' ailing share prices and protect profits in the face ofrapidly declining revenues as advertising moves steadi...

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

... events in Australia as Fairfax tries to bully Alliance members into accepting its contract terms as the price of getting back inside their newsrooms. Journalists around the world are watching Fairf...

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

...$4 million scheme to reward the most senior executives with share packages based on the company’s share price and earnings." Read the full story Details of the scheme can be found on page ...

6. Fairfax board meets... but without Kirk
(The Campaign/In The News)

...at the group. Mr Fairfax has suffered more than anyone else from sharp falls in the media group's share price this year, losing hundreds of millions since buying out his family's 14 per cent stake i...

7. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...in 2008 than he was in 2007 after getting a 23.8% pay increase. In the past 12 months, the Fairfax share price has plunged 40%.  This year, according to the company's remuneration report, Kirk...

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

...ght times in 2007-2008). Several directors have increased their shareholdings in Fairfax (the share price has fallen 54.9% from it's peak to just $2.23 last Friday - a 15-year low). They are: ...

9. Kirk departs, victim of troubled times
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...edia's chief executive, David Kirk, flew to Melbourne to reassure staff that despite a plummeting share price and shuddering global economy, his plans for the company were working. But as Mr Kirk t...

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

...d despite the global financial upheaval. He has also, up to now, been avoiding his staff while the share price has plunged from a high of about $5.44 at the time of the merger with Rural Press in May ...

11. Kirk speech fails to impress - Rudd targets exec pay
(The Campaign/In The News)

...3.4 million man, failed to impress with his speech to The Sydney Institute last night. The Fairfax share price was hammered to another record low in trade today - just $2.17 per share - down from the ...

12. Age readers call for Kirk, Walker to be "unloaded"
(The Campaign/In The News)

...he Fairfax Media board of directors Ron Walker: "Crikey suggested on 16 June that plunging share prices might prompt major shareholder John B Fairfax to unload Ron Walker and David Kirk. Cus...

13. Walker won't go as Fairfax shares at 15-year low
(The Campaign/In The News)

... his personal wealth - estimated at $427 million by BRW Magazine - to support the company's ailing share price. "Apart from the Fairfax family I have more shares than any other chairman before me...

14. More protests over media CEO pay
(The Campaign/In The News)

... Nick Falloon has become the latest executive to earn a massive salary hike despite a plummeting share price, earning a $2.4million boost to his full-year package. Mr Falloon's total pay grew ...

15. Fairfax shareholders want dividend cut
(The Campaign/In The News)

...e its dividend payout to retire debt early, as market concerns about its borrowings weigh on its share price. With the company's market value down by more than a quarter this month, investors argue...

16. Another Fairfax editor sacked
(The Campaign/In The News)

... on a day of wild internal speculation at Fairfax, which has recently been plagued by a tumbling share price that has seen it trading at or near all-time lows. The company also recently announce...

17. Wolpe departs Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...iversified media company battles an evolving news market, slumping ad sales forecasts and a weak stock price. Fairfax is publisher of this website. Read more ...

18. David Kirk quits as Fairfax boss
(The Campaign/In The News)

... on a day of wild internal speculation at Fairfax, which has recently been plagued by a tumbling share price that has seen it trading at or near all-time lows. The company also recently announce...

19. Dividend cut expected tomorrow
(The Campaign/In The News)

...be too hard for the Fairfax Media board to cut the 20c a share dividend to boost cashflow and the share price and get all those analysts and moaning fund managers off their back. In fact cutting ...

20. McCarthy warned
(The Campaign/In The News)

...Black David Kirk, who resigned on Friday after losing the confidence of the board as the group's share price plummeted. Read more ...

21. The Fairfax Fiasco
(The Campaign/In The News)

A gloomy outlook on advertising and a languishing share price are just two of the stories from the Fairfax AGM. See Crikey.com.au's take on the unfolding events at Fairfax here