In today’s Media Briefs: Fairfax to strike … Don (Churchill)’s Party … Bravehearts do the white thing … Baillieu govt freezes FReeZa … Guardian loses fight for web readers even after taking out Murdoch tabloid … and more …
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Churchill’s Age departure leaves door open for other moves
Don Churchill, chief executive and publisher of Fairfax in Melbourne, yesterday afternoon announced his retirement, following a management meeting in Sydney last Monday.
Media briefs: Firing salvos at Fairfax … Pagemasters’ gaffes … Origin a TV hit …
In today’s Media Briefs: Salvo fires a salvo at Churchill … ABC News Breakfast serial mistake by Pagemasters … Fairfax’s City Weekly strongly criticises Fairfax … State verses state rates through the roof. …
Hywood unbackable as new Fairfax CEO, with more cuts to come
Fairfax Media is bracing for sweeping changes to its senior executive ranks, with well-placed sources telling Crikey that acting chief executive Greg Hywood is now an unbackable favourite to be confirmed in the top job following the company’s board meeting next Friday.
New Age? Stylish Saturday edition in ‘biggest makeover in history’
Melbourne gets a new newspaper next month — or at least a re-branded one — with Fairfax spruiking a new-look Saturday edition of The Age in “the biggest makeover in the paper’s history”.
The printing is on the wall for The Age, former execs agree
Former senior Age executives have backed the release of a document calling for a radical restructure of the ailing Melbourne daily’s management team, following the launch of a public campaign to save the newspaper from oblivion.
Dear Fairfax staff: McCarthy, Churchill explain the ‘transformation’
Crikey has obtained emails from Fairfax CEO Brian McCarthy and Melbourne publishing boss Don Churchill explaining the company’s structural review to staff this morning.
Time for The Age to come clean on the fate of archives: Gawenda
Former editor Michael Gawenda wants to know what happened to The Age archives, revealing that when he left in 2004, the archives still existed but were in an appalling state of neglect.
Fairfax in damage control over real estate exodus
Age boss Don Churchill has written a desperate letter to around 20 Melbourne real estate agents defecting to the new Weekly Review publication, demanding to know their future advertising intentions with Fairfax.
Web expert tells Fairfax: newspapers have 10 years. Tops.
World Internet Project founder Professor Jeffrey Cole sees a limited future for newspapers in print. So it sure would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall at the Fairfax strategy meeting he spoke at on Monday.
Fairfax finally merges its Canberra bureaux
Few things have been more contentious between the SMH and The Age than the very mention of amalgamating the papers’ federal Parliamentary bureaus. Now, it’s happened.
Bonuses for going backwards: questions for Fairfax
Fairfax executives face the company’s AGM tomorrow. What questions should shareholders be asking? ‘Broadway Betty’ makes a few suggestions,.
Secret Fairfax share scheme may be key to the slash and burn
A secretive $4 million scheme rewards the most senior Fairfax executives with share packages based on the company’s share price and earnings, writes Andrew Dodd.
Fairfax bosses put strikebreaking to good use
The strike editions of Fairfax papers over the weekend were a little window on to the world of journalistic practice as senior Fairfax managers see it, writes Jonathan Green.
Fairfax to slash 5% of full time workforce
Fairfax announced this morning that the company is embarking on a “major restructure” — specifically, they’re set to slash 5%, or 550 heads, from their full time staff, reports Sophie Black.
An open letter to Age chief Don Churchill
Dear Mr Churchill, It’s been quite a week. At the end of it, I am hearing things about what’s going on in your office that make me think I should write to you. Yours, Margaret Simons.
