Listen out for the sound of the Murdoch minions reacting to the cold water Fairfax Media CEO Brian McCarthy has just poured on the idea of paid content news websites at the Fairfax AGM this morning.
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New blood jostles for Fairfax control
Was there ever a company more clearly in need of fresh talent than Fairfax Media? Sadly, the Fairfax board is better at perpetuating itself than reinventing and reinvigorating.
ACCC head warns News and Fairfax over cartel risk
Graeme Samuel has reminded newspaper companies of the need to abide by the Trade Practices Act after Fairfax chief executive Brian McCarthy touted the possibility of talks with News Ltd last week.
Crikey Says: Help save Fairfax: send them your suggestions
Fairfax CEO Brian McCarthy is taking suggestions for the company’s future strategic direction. Why not send him your thoughts?
Fairfax to charge for online news
Hot on the heels of Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that all News Corp news sites will soon be charging for online content, Fairfax Media boss Brian McCarthy has announced plans to erect a paywall on both The Age and Sydney Morning Herald websites.
Talking the town: CEO Sleepout at Luna Park
This may not be the day to ask your boss for a pay rise, if he or she took part in the St Vincent de Paul CEO Sleepout last night, writes Margot Saville.
Will Fairfax subsidise their flagships for the health of democracy?
Are Fairfax Media prepared to fund the papers at, or close to, a loss in the interests of Australian democracy?
newspaper death watch Fairfax classifieds nearly halved year-on-year
New page-count research shows big falls in the volumes of classified advertising in the key Fairfax papers.
Fairfax restructure just more jobs for the boys
Fairfax’s long touted reorganization is much ado about nothing: mediocrity rewarded, according to a Fairfax insider.
Fairfax calls its mastheads “Cash Generating Units”
Fairfax has an unfortunate way with words for a company that publishes so many, writes Glenn Dyer.
Fairfax bloodbath set to get bloodier
Analysts are expecting a torrent of red ink when stricken old media firm Fairfax releases its first half results on Monday, writes Andrew Crook.
Whispers at Fairfax: restructure is nigh
There are rumours that bubble away more or less constantly in the Fairfax newsrooms. But are the latest rumours true? Margaret Simons writes.
McCarthy sharpens the knife at Fairfax
As Fairfax prepares to slash its dividend, staff are bracing for a brutal era of cost-cutting led by Brian McCarthy, writes Glenn Dyer.
Fairfax push for hand-picked staff to resign “voluntarily”
“Voluntary redundancies to be sought on a case-by-case basis”. It is an unusual concept, writes Margaret Simons.
Clock ticking for Jaspan
Things move fast and late at Fairfax when it comes to executive appointments, writes Margaret Simons.
“I want to tell!’ ‘No I want to tell!’: Duelling memos at Fairfax
In Fairfax, there has been frank exchange of editors and memos, writes Andrew Dodd.
Fairfax stops the recruiting of editorial trainees
There is consternation among the troops and their middle level commanders at Fairfax this week over an edict from the boss of the company’s newspapers, Brian McCarthy, preventing the placing of advertisements recruiting editorial trainees for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
Tips and rumours
In the light of the news re Fairfax and Southern Cross, one wonders whether John Laws had wind of this development and whether it played any part in his apparently hasty decision to retire. There is much to fear from Brian McCarthy who is rumoured to run the radio group following its acquisition by Fairfax — he […]
