http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/26/fairfax-to-slash-5-of-full-time-workforce/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/26/fairfax-to-slash-5-of-full-time-workforce/#comment-12361 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12361 The new get up of the Sydney Daily Telegraph looks like the old South Coast Register (Batemans Bay NSW) with some colour trimming. One difference, there's a liftout with a liftout and don't forget the liftout in there. But the editor Penberthy likes it so that's the main thing I guess. Meanwhile over at Fairfax the notion that a profit driven corporation as opposed to a trust or mutual cares about good news service looks about to get another thrashing. That 5% ought to contact eachother and combine to float a business that shares equal equity amongst its staff and management. As they profit they share equally in that. That's a news business I reckon. If those staff don't start investing in their own equity ... well more fool them really. The new get up of the Sydney Daily Telegraph looks like the old South Coast Register (Batemans Bay NSW) with some colour trimming. One difference, there’s a liftout with a liftout and don’t forget the liftout in there. But the editor Penberthy likes it so that’s the main thing I guess. Meanwhile over at Fairfax the notion that a profit driven corporation as opposed to a trust or mutual cares about good news service looks about to get another thrashing. That 5% ought to contact eachother and combine to float a business that shares equal equity amongst its staff and management. As they profit they share equally in that. That’s a news business I reckon. If those staff don’t start investing in their own equity … well more fool them really.

]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/26/fairfax-to-slash-5-of-full-time-workforce/#comment-12362 George Georges Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12362 The sad part about David Kirks's cost cutting is it will produce short term benefits to shareholders, management. Long term it is down the gurgler, for all. What isnt debated is the failure of Fairfax to grasp how old and new media can meld - then again who has here. We can all look forward to more forward thinking media outfits from abroad running largely hackless (local) publications. Even sadder, few will notice the difference. If I may suggest one cost David should incur, it would be to appoint someone with half a brain who might occasionally suggest an innovation or two for Fairfax. Now wouldnt that be remarkable. The sad part about David Kirks’s cost cutting is it will produce short term benefits to shareholders, management. Long term it is down the gurgler, for all. What isnt debated is the failure of Fairfax to grasp how old and new media can meld - then again who has here. We can all look forward to more forward thinking media outfits from abroad running largely hackless (local) publications. Even sadder, few will notice the difference. If I may suggest one cost David should incur, it would be to appoint someone with half a brain who might occasionally suggest an innovation or two for Fairfax. Now wouldnt that be remarkable.

]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/26/fairfax-to-slash-5-of-full-time-workforce/#comment-12363 George Georges Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-12363 The sad part about David Kirks's cost cutting is it will produce short term benefits to shareholders, management. Long term it is down the gurgler, for all. What isnt debated is the failure of Fairfax to grasp how old and new media can meld - then again who has here. We can all look forward to more forward thinking media outfits from abroad running largely hackless (local) publications. Even sadder, few will notice the difference. If I may suggest one cost David should incur, it would be to appoint someone with half a brain who might occasionally suggest an innovation or two for Fairfax. Now wouldnt that be remarkable. The sad part about David Kirks’s cost cutting is it will produce short term benefits to shareholders, management. Long term it is down the gurgler, for all. What isnt debated is the failure of Fairfax to grasp how old and new media can meld - then again who has here. We can all look forward to more forward thinking media outfits from abroad running largely hackless (local) publications. Even sadder, few will notice the difference. If I may suggest one cost David should incur, it would be to appoint someone with half a brain who might occasionally suggest an innovation or two for Fairfax. Now wouldnt that be remarkable.

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