Why the Left dominates student politics
Crikey readers talk student politics, Western Australia and how much you should pay for a Fairfax daily.
View ArticleFairfax slashes 45 more jobs, closes glossy mag inserts
Another 45 jobs will go from Fairfax, in a merger of business reporting teams and the closure of high-gloss magazine inserts. Crikey has the grim staff announcement.
View ArticleTips and rumours
Is one of Fairfax's gun columnists thinking about defecting to News Corp? ... Is La Trobe privatising student housing? ... And Abbott is watching. Always ...
View Article‘This is what’s left’: Fairfax journos down tools amid threats and fear
More than 600 Fairfax staff across the country are on strike, after the company announced dozens of redundancies.
View ArticleSix ways to fill a paper when your staff are on strike
Fairfax managed to fill its newspapers yesterday, even though its newsroom was on strike. How did senior editors manage? Crikey's media reporter looks at the tricks of the trade ...
View ArticleMedia briefs: no more Good Food … fight pics … Block trading …
Fairfax axes specialised Good Food Guides ... The right to use Packer/Gyngell fight pics ... Insider trading hits The Block ... Is the media making indigenous Australia sick? ...
View ArticleMedia briefs: Fairfax misses out … Guardian expanding … dumb ways to repurpose …
Fairfax got its papers out on time yesterday. Pity it didn't stop to report the news ... Plus other media tidbits of the day.
View ArticleWho wrecked Fairfax? A cheat sheet to Ben Hills’ new book
Stop The Presses is, at heart, a story of Fairfax's board over several decades, and how it got it so wrong. Full of the corporate intrigue and no-holds-barred sledging, here's Crikey's guide to the...
View ArticleFairfax ‘weathered the storm’, says Hywood, but more cuts possible
The Fairfax CEO had no patience for critics at a Melbourne Press Club appearance last week, telling those gathered that his company had "weathered the storm".
View ArticleMedia briefs: print woes… Serious Charge … meet the Spectators …
The Age sells has lost 20% of its circulation in a year. And other media tidbits of the day.
View ArticleWho needs subs? Fairfax turns to reporter-only model
Can Fairfax's papers survive without subeditors? The company's giving it a red-hot go, as it entirely removes the function at three rural newspapers in New South Wales.
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.
View ArticleMedia briefs: rude nudes … deja vu … Aussies abroad …
Nudists don't sell. And other media tidbits of the day.
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 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‘Still completely fucked’: Fairfax confirms massive cuts
Fairfax is still planning to slash its regional newsrooms nearly in half.
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 ArticleFairfax plagiarises surveillance story
Senior Fairfax journalist Philip Dorling says the lifted copy was "an embarrassing lapse of judgement".
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 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".
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