1. Campaign Contacts
(The Campaign/About Us)

... claire.orourke@alliance.org.au Ph: 02 9333 0935 Mb: 0412 984 925 Media Inquiries Mike Dobbie Director - Publications & Campaigns, Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance Em: mi...

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

...nbsp;  $336,000 Deputy Chairman: Mark Burrows     $180,000 Other Non-Executive Director            $120,000 Me...

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

...e we are all looking forward to sharing Christmas and the New Year with our friends and families.  The Directors of Fairfax Media Limited join me in wishing you and your loved ones a safe and hap...

4. Kirk insults staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...yees when Kirk spoke to them this afternoon. Asked if he would consider having a journalist on the board of directors, someone who could even be a non-voting member of the board, Kirk said he would no...

5. Future of Journalism summit in Melbourne
(The Campaign/Editorial)

A host of local and international speakers - including the Pulitzer Prize-winning executive director of Washington’s J-Lab Institute, Jan Shaffer; Stephen Brook, formerly of The Australian, now assi

6. 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

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

Next month, the directors of Fairfax Media will be receiving final dividend cheques worth more than $22 million thanks to their shareholdings in the company. Those cheques are in addition to the $4

8. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ry is the same. Fairfax chairman Ron Walker received $336,240 last financial year. In total, the Fairfax directors are paid a $5.31 million. All together, Fairfax directors and just five of the...

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

...ree items to be voted on: adopting the accounts, approving the remuneration report (which saw the Fairfax directors and just five of the company's executives receive  $11.67 million in the yea...

10. Payback as Fairfax sacks Michael Gawenda
(The Campaign/In The News)

...70, was editor between 1997 and 2004 and was the Fairfax correspondent in Washington until 2007. He is now director of the University of Melbourne’s Centre for the Advanced Study of Journalism. Rea...

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

As the annual general meeting season for Australia’s public companies gets underway, executives and directors are bracing for a barrage of criticism from angry investors over high pay and bonuses. W

12. Former Fairfax director praises Walkley awards
(The Campaign/In The News)

...Ron Walker. Or the $4.5 million bonus paid to Kirk's predecessor in 2006. But here's what former Fairfax director David Gonski has to say:  "I am one of those bastards who does appreci...

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

... Unlike David Kirk's 23.8% increase in remuneration in 2008 (when inflation was running at 4.5%), Walker's director's fees rose a more restrained 2.4%. ...

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

... the possibility of ongoing strike action at their Auckland call centre will continue,” said Unite National Director Mike Treen. The strike has the full support of the NUW, and is part of an ongoing...

15. Strike spooks advertisers
(The Campaign/In The News)

Steve Sinha, managing director of OMD Melbourne said: “This isn't an issue that media agencies will have dealt with in years. If it turns out to be a one-off, then I think Fairfax can isolate the p

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

...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 might ...

17. Team Barack enlists Fairfax corporate chief
(The Campaign/In The News)

...layers in the agenda of Barack Obama. Mr Wolpe served under Mr Waxman for several years as his legislative director and has a long history with the US Democrats, having served on several political c...

18. Vow to keep up standards a crucial test for Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

...me "a boring subject". Some believed they spied an omen. They interpreted McCarthy, the managing director of Rural Press prior to its $9billion merger with Fairfax, as indicating he'd disc...

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

Fairfax Media director of corporate affairs Bruce Wolpe is leaving the company to return to the United States to work for a congressman in Washington in the wake of the 2008 elections. His departure

20. ABC's Scott on promoting quality journalism
(The Campaign/In The News)

Former Fairfax Media editotrial chief and now ABC managing director Mark Scott described as "danger all round" a question asking whether "running newspapers is better left to newspaper

21. Kirk and Walker in denial at Fairfax AGM
(The Campaign/In The News)

...dia CEO David Kirk and Chairman Ron Walker and surely it is just a matter of time before the more sensible directors move on both of them. Read more ...