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

...en adopted by Fairfax executives: Owners and managers must be long-term builders, not so-called ''market harvesters'' who focus almost exclusively on short-term profits. They must relentlessl...

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

...nd no one ever wondered if it would all end one day. Some at the seminar foresaw the demise of the mass-market papers, which provide much of the news that is now dispensed more cheaply and quickly o...

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

...s you all know, Fairfax Media has great mastheads, websites, printing centres, radio stations, events and market strength – and most importantly, a committed and valued staff across Australia, New Zea...

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

...simply targeting back-office operations. This claim is misleading to staff, readers, shareholders and the market and should be condemned in the strongest possible way. At least 35 subeditors, 23 repor...

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

...nd fiddle to the financial quick fix. This week's announcement does little to challenge that idea. The market initially reacted favourably to the news that the company would wipe $50million off its...

6. Kirk's diktat versus a bottom-up process
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...d his deputy CEO Brian McCarthy did indeed issue a diktat on August 26. Their e-mail told staff, and sharemarket analysts, that 550 people would have to lose their jobs in order to cut $50 million in ...

7. Low-quality journalism erodes the Fairfax brands
(The Campaign/In The News)

...erceptions mostly affects those mastheads rather hitting Fairfax Media directly. However, given that the market value of Fairfax is heavily tied to those mastheads, even the deferred effect is not go...

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

All twenty-seven market research interviewers working on Monday night at the SurveyTalk call centre in Auckland walked off the job angry at their Australian bosses continued refusal to improve pay rat

9. The stockbroker's view
(The Campaign/In The News)

Today, the Australian sharemarket fell 2%. Meanwhile, shares in Fairfax Media fell 4.5% to $2.75. That means David Kirk's shareholding of 1.97 million shares is worth $5.41 million. Kirk may want to r

10. Deputy PM concerned
(The Campaign/In The News)

...lead to a reduction, either in the quality of those newspapers, or in the diversity of views in our media market, is of concern to me." Read the transcript  or see the video online here. ...

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

FAIRFAX Media will cut its full-year dividend by 80 per cent -- with little market expectation of a return to normal payouts for at least two years -- as the company attempts to tackle its $2.5 bil

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

...share purchases worth millions of dollars following a mix-up in communication over who had to inform the market. The company said late yesterday that on five occasions between June last year and la...

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

MAJOR shareholders have called on Fairfax Media to reduce its dividend payout to retire debt early, as market concerns about its borrowings weigh on its share price. With the company's market value

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

... the broadcaster's earnings fell 25 per cent because of weaker ratings and a downturn in the advertising market. Mr Falloon's pay jumped from $3.41 million to a total of $5.81 million in the year ...

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

...ve David Kirk last month with Brian McCarthy, as the diversified media company battles an evolving news market, slumping ad sales forecasts and a weak stock price. Fairfax is publisher of this webs...

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

...ive Brian McCarthy elevated to the CEO's role. Fairfax shares jumped 6 percent on the Australian sharemarket immediately after the announcemment was released to the sotck exchange. Mr McCarthy ...

17. Cut to Fairfax dividend likely
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ts $2.5 billion debt. In a rare public comment, Mr Fairfax's son Nick told The Australian that, despite market speculation, the Fairfax family did not require a dividend from Fairfax to service its...

18. Fairfax sackings don't change a thing
(The Campaign/In The News)

...am, but as the initial enthusiasm faded, they eased to be up just half a a cent at $1.495 at midday. The market knows that changing the captain of the SS Fairfax doesn't alter the arrangement of the...

19. Markets hated Kirk era
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ed a radio arm with a strong national news/talk focus. The reward for his effort was his demise. The markets hated it.    Read more   ...

20. Kirk loses power struggle
(The Campaign/In The News)

... role. Shares of Fairfax Media rose nearly 9 per cent to an intraday peak of $1.62 on the Australian sharemarket shortly after the announcement this morning. Read more ...

21. How Fairfax told the market
(The Campaign/In The News)

See the Fairfax Media announcement to the Australian Stock Exchange here