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

...ity declines, so does circulation, influence and revenue. And sooner or later, down the track, there comes another round of cuts. So it is with Fairfax Media. Of all media groups in Australia, Fair...

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

...overage of immeasurable value to the Australian public and the international community.  Decades ago, another Fairfax journalist named David Jenkins began his first overseas posting to Indonesia....

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

 This week’s announcement of plans to cut 550 jobs at Fairfax Media is another worrying case of a short-sighted push for profits by bonus-driven executives at the expense of people’s livelihoods

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

...g all local media companies at 90 per cent. Fairfax, with $3.9 billion in masthead and licence values and another $2.8 billion in goodwill, comes in next ay 78 per cent. Read more ...

5. Negative credit rating outlook
(The Campaign/In The News)

FAIRFAX Media received another blow yesterday with Standard and Poor's revising its credit outlook for the under-siege company on the basis of falling advertising revenue. The credit rating agency

6. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...alian prime ministers. It was Kirk who told staff via e-mail that 550 of them will lose their jobs in yet another round of redundancies at the media group in order to create savings of $50 million. ...

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

...airfax shares. Also, Fairfax chairman Ron Walker yesterday revealed he planned to stay in the role for another three-year term in the face of persistent rumours Mr Fairfax could soon take over. ...

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

...led 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 previous low of $2.2...

9. Chairman Walker takes to the air - first class
(The Campaign/In The News)

...gh to sit in first class. Stretching out, he would have had enough room in his personalised cabin to fit another person. Read more Unlike David Kirk's 23.8% increase in remuneration in 2008 (wh...

10. Crunch time for Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

DAVID Kirk's departure as chief executive of Fairfax Media is another reminder, as if it was needed, that debt levels that were acceptable before the financial crisis and economic downturn are a mi

11. 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

12. Fairfax underperforming
(The Campaign/In The News)

"Another company feeling the downturn was Fairfax Media, publisher of this paper. Advertising on metropolitan newspapers rose 2.1 per cent in the June half. Goldies tipped that Fairfax's metros

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

THE Sydney Morning Herald's editor, Alan Oakley, yesterday became the fourth editor of a major Australian metropolitan newspaper to depart his job in as many months, as Fairfax Media faced a new ro

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

...ominious honour of becoming cheaper than a copy of its flagship Sydney newspaper. But there's no doubt another set of numbers would have been exercising the 66-year-old's mind - the $600million h...

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

...wspaper's 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 o...

16. Walker insists his job is safe
(The Campaign/In The News)

... declaration at last month's annual meeting that he had the board's blessing to continue as chairman for another four years. Read more ...

17. Another editor departs
(The Campaign/In The News)

It seems that the editorial upheavals affecting British and American journalism are being replicated in Australia. Alan Oakley, the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), "resigned" yest

18. Oakley departs Herald
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ld staff were informed in an email this afternoon that  editor AlanOakley would be stepping down and another editor would be appointed after interviews are conducted. Read more ...