As 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleFairfax 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 ArticleCan Joe Hockey sue you for your drunken tweet?
Twitter users might be able tor rely on the defence of honest opinion to protect themselves from lawsuits, but it is no ironclad guarantee, write Giri Sivaraman and Nita Green of Maurice Blackburn.
View ArticleWhy the media can’t make us care about paying people smugglers
Fairfax made a big splash with allegations that both the Liberal and Labor governments had paid people smugglers. And Australia issued a collective "meh".
View ArticleFairfax advertises for ad-selling journalist, claims it was a mistake
Fairfax journalists fear the end of church and state at the company's local papers as a position for an ad-selling journalist is applied. But the company says it was a mistake.
View ArticleFairfax plagiarises surveillance story
Senior Fairfax journalist Philip Dorling says the lifted copy was "an embarrassing lapse of judgement".
View ArticleFairfax slashes NSW newsrooms, with Mercury hardest hit
The newsroom of the Illawarra Mercury will be cut almost in half. With other cuts soon to follow.
View Article‘Still completely fucked’: Fairfax confirms massive cuts
Fairfax is still planning to slash its regional newsrooms nearly in half.
View ArticleFairfax Victorian regionals brace for final cut as subeditors go in New Zealand
Today Fairfax will announce what it plans to do with its regional newsrooms. And it is not expected to be good news for journos.
View Article‘We need local journalists’: communities plead for their papers
Newspapers like The Border Mail play a crucial role in their communities, and Fairfax's plans to gut its regional newsrooms have locals worried they'll be left without a voice.
View ArticleMedia briefs: rude nudes … deja vu … Aussies abroad …
Nudists don't sell. And other media tidbits of the day.
View ArticleRegional newsrooms sliced in half as Fairfax ditches subs and photographers
Fairfax wants to make dozens of staff redundant from 13 Victorian publications as the reporters are asked to make do without subeditors or photographers.
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