1. Richard Glover's Pledge
(The Campaign/Actions)

...is Dale Christine Zangari Christopher Friend Christopher Stueven Conrad Walters Cory Boardman Cyndi Tebbel Dom Feain Dara Conduit David Urquhart David Worsencro...

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

.... Here’s what the top seven paid themselves over the past couple of years: Let’s not forget the board – they paid themselves more than $4 million as well. That’s a tidy little earner for a pa...

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

... the merger with Rural Press in 2006. A low cost, low-quality approach appears to be holding sway in the boardroom, and quality and influence are playing second fiddle to the financial quick fix. This...

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

... peak union body today threw its support behind the embattled employees of Fairfax and called for the board of Fairfax to reconsider its short-sighted decision. Ms Burrow said it was deplorable t...

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

...d leave soon. So after six weeks of hell, we thought we were back to the top of the snakes and ladders board. But no, then we get the news about the wider staff cuts - and as we are technically st...

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

...ing to the Fairfax Media remuneration report, when David Kirk was appointed CEO in 2005 (just after the board had paid a $4.5 million bonus to see his predecessor Fred Hilmer out the door), both com...

7. Kirk insults staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... walked into the job with no experience in the media industry. But then, virtually no one on the Fairfax board has media experience either and they are the people who appointed Kirk and Hilmer. That's...

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

THE board of Fairfax Media held an unscheduled meeting in Sydney yesterday, without managing director David Kirk. The surprise move came amid growing speculation that supporters of the company's d

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

...x directors voted to increase their pay by 90% from $2.1 million to $4 million. In those same years, the board has watched the remuneration of its “key management personnel” jump 234% from $1.35 milli...

10. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... in 2007). Indeed, the five highest paid Fairfax executives received $6.3 million in 2008. At board level, the story is the same. Fairfax chairman Ron Walker received $336,240 last financia...

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

...g, an investment banker (Young's remuneration from Fairfax in 2008 rose from $152,600 to $167,860... the board of directors met eight times in 2007-2008). Several directors have increased their s...

12. New Fairfax CEO to be decided next week
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... says that former Rural Press executive Brian McCarthy is interim CEO of the media group "until the Board meets next Wednesday, 10 December 2008". ...

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

...he has represented the interests of the company externally with vigour, good humour and passion. The Board joins me in thanking David very much for his contribution to Fairfax Media. David has ...

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

...0 bonus for the past financial year, his own future was being determined by a meeting of the company's board that was being held in Sydney in his absence. Read more ...

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

...gh the company and a plummeting share price, how can David Kirk justify the rise in salaries paid to the board and senior management? If base salaries are frozen, in plain English what are the benchma...

16. Fairfax shareholders vote against remuneration report
(The Campaign/In The News)

THE board of Fairfax Media yesterday faced an embarrassing "show of hands" vote against the adoption of its remuneration report. This came after it announced its September quarter operating

17. Rural Press faction takes over Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...he Fairfax group. It is understood Mr McCarthy will be formally anointed as CEO of Fairfax at a 9.30am board meeting in Sydney today. Read more ...

18. 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

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

...orld,'' Mr Kirk said in the statement.   ''A lot has been achieved and I thank especially the Board and the many managers throughout the business who have contributed to the re-positioning...

20. Fairfax shares hit new 12-month low
(The Campaign/In The News)

...une 30. The jump in the value of Mr Kirk's share rights meant Fairfax's total remuneration bill for its board members blew out by almost a third to more than $5.3 million for 2007-08. Mr Kirk was no...

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

...calls for Fairfax's biggest shareholder to sack Fairfax CEO David Kirk and chairman of the Fairfax Media board of directors Ron Walker: "Crikey suggested on 16 June that plunging share prices ...

22. Ron Walker silent on David Kirk's fate
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ng to a newspaper report that said moves could be afoot for operational change at the company, with the board meeting on Thursday without Mr Kirk. Read more ...

23. McCarthyism begins
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ts $2.5 billion debt burden. The decision to slash the dividend came after one of the most important board meetings in the history of the company, which ended with the anointment of Brian McCart...

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

Mr Walker later told journalists he had the board's blessing to continue for another three-year term when he stands for re-election next year. He also defended the size of his one million share stak

25. Job ads plunge
(The Campaign/In The News)

...the hardest hit. The publisher of the Herald is expected to anoint Brian McCarthy as his successor at a board meeting tomorrow. Read more ...

26. Does McCarthy "get" the internet?
(The Campaign/In The News)

...RE is one word that underscores the unfolding crisis at Fairfax Media: internet. For the man the group's board has chosen to right the ship, Brian McCarthy, it is his self-confessed weakest suit. Read...

27. Fairfax family values
(The Campaign/In The News)

AS John B. Fairfax took the lift to the 31st floor of Sydney's Chifley Tower for an unscheduled board meeting of the company that bears his name, he might not have been aware that shares in Fairfax

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

...ompany. Former Rural Press chief executive Brian McCarthy will step in as acting CEO until the Fairfax board meets on December 10. The Sydney Morning Herald's editor, Alan Oakley, yesterday bec...

29. Interim CEO McCarthy's message to staff
(The Campaign/In The News)

...e resignation of David Kirk as CEO.  I have been appointed Interim CEO pending the Fairfax Media Board meeting next week.   I express my appreciation for all David did to build Fa...

30. Fairfax facing crisis as chief is ousted
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...a industry was shocked on Friday by the ousting of David Kirk, the chief executive of Fairfax Media. The board ejected Kirk the day after the editor of its Sydney Morning Herald resigned, and the two ...