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

...r Fred Hilmer out the door), both company secretary Gail Hambly and chief financial officer Sankar Narayan received “golden handcuff” payments of $300,000 each to ensure “their retention and success...

2. 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

3. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

....4 million (and that's up from $1.25 million in 2007). Indeed, the five highest paid Fairfax executives received $6.3 million in 2008. At board level, the story is the same. Fairfax chairma...

4. Fairfax's finest line up to leave SMH
(The Campaign/In The News)

... newspapers, Lloyd Whish-Wilson, said in an internal memo that "more applications than required were received" from reporters and writers wishing to leave the SMH and Sun-Herald newspaper...

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

...t quite felt the same level of pain.... Over at media company Fairfax Media, chief executive David Kirk received total remuneration that rose 24% from $2.76 million to $3.41 million. Fairfax’s sh...

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

...merger with Rural Press in May 2007 the share price has more than halved. In that same time frame, Kirk has received a 23.8% pay increase to $3.4 million. Shareholders, that include John B Fairfax ...

7. Fairfax issues vouchers and bonuses
(The Campaign/In The News)

"Now we hear those exempt from the industrial action received a rather more serious monetary reward: a $2000 bonus in their pay packets and a nice thankyou letter from chief David Kirk. Sources

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

...rights to shares" granted to Mr McCarthy came to $280,000, while a number of other Fairfax executives received similar boosts. Fairfax's annual report notes that as part of its "equity-base...

9. Fairfax increases cuts, bosses earn record pay
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ney Morning Herald from 60 to 70, while its bosses earned record pay for the year to June. CEO David Kirk received a total of $3.41 million in salary, bonuses, superannuation and shares, a 24 perce...

10. Record pay for Fairfax bosses as jobs axed
(The Campaign/In The News)

... program to cut 550 jobs - earned record pay for the year to June. Fairfax chief executive officer Mr Kirk received a total of $3.41 million in salary, bonuses, superannuation and shares for the 20...

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

...r Falloon's total pay grew to $5.8million in the year to August: a 70 per cent rise on the $3.4million he received a year earlier, according to Ten's annual report, which was released yesterday. ...

12. John B Fairfax silent
(The Campaign/In The News)

...olas Fairfax said he had no comment on the family's stance. Marinya owns about 14 per cent of Fairfax and received more than $40 million in dividends for 2007-08. The value of its holding in the bu...

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

..., whose pay rose 24 per cent to $3.41 million, but below John Alexander of Consolidated Media Holdings who received $19.1 million, including a $15 million "redundancy payment" for PBL's d...

14. Fairfax chiefs in pay rise
(The Campaign/In The News)

...otal cost to the company rose to $3.41 million from $2.76 million, even as his cash bonus declined and he received lower super payments, Fairfax Media said in its latest annual report. Read more ...