Fairfax slashes and burns, with over 100 regional journos gone in a year
Fairfax has decided it can do without things like photographers and subeditors in its regional newsrooms.
View ArticleFairfax staunches the bleeding in metros, with Domain still its battlefield...
Fairfax's digital revenue is making up for a fall in print advertising and circulation at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
View ArticleToo fast, too furious: anger revving up as Fairfax outsources Drive
Fairfax has announced it will make six journalists redundant as part of a new joint venture. The mood in newsrooms is very black indeed.
View ArticleFifield’s weak media changes help the billionaires, do little for the bush
Despite the hype, the government's media ownership reforms are relatively modest. And history shows they're not likely to successful mergers. Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer write.
View ArticleWhen Greg Hywood manned the barricades
Greg Hywood wasn't always an executive who wanted to fire people and cut newsrooms to an anaemic level. Once upon a time he stood up for workers' rights.
View ArticleAnd then there were none: Fairfax’s last broadsheet goes ‘compact’, with...
Staff at The Canberra Times have so far been spared Fairfax's extreme cost-cutting measures, but they knew their time was coming.
View ArticleCould Fairfax announce the end of its Monday-to-Friday papers tomorrow?
Tension mounts. The post Could Fairfax announce the end of its Monday-to-Friday papers tomorrow? appeared first on Crikey.
View ArticleMedia briefs: Fairfax braces … Ailes in (yet more) hot water … News Corp cuts …
John Oliver on the importance of local journalists. And other media tidbits of the day. The post Media briefs: Fairfax braces … Ailes in (yet more) hot water … News Corp cuts … appeared first on Crikey.
View ArticleAlmost all major Australian newspapers say Yes to marriage equality
Only a handful of papers are still fence-sitting on the postal plebiscite on marriage equality (guess which ones ...). The post Almost all major Australian newspapers say Yes to marriage equality...
View ArticleAs the SMH celebrates a birthday in the Nine stable, a Fairfax remembers...
190 years on, the Herald remains to 'tell stories, break news and act as an investigative watchdog'. The post As the SMH celebrates a birthday in the Nine stable, a Fairfax remembers Fairfax values and...
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