You really have to feel for Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood and CEO of Metropolitan Publishing, Jack Matthews. Though not as much, obviously, as one feels for the subeditors who are about to lose their jobs.
Fairfax newspapers
Beecher: from a burning platform, Fairfax had to take the plunge
The new leadership at Fairfax Media will attract fierce criticism over the announcement today of a recalibration of its flagship newspapers by sacking all their sub-editors. But they had to do something.
Fairfax, News still at war over the job ads
New Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood and Seek chief Andrew Bassat have entirely different views of the Australian employment classified advertising market. One of them is going to be wrong, says Robert Gottliebsen of Business Spectator.
News Ltd the biggest loser in paper circ figures
News Ltd is the big loser from the slump in newspaper sales in 2010, casting doubt on the continuing presence of some senior editors and executives at Rupert Murdoch’s Australian empire.
A hunch: John B Fairfax won’t be Fairfax chair
JB Fairfax is not going to take the chairman’s job at Fairfax, writes Margaret Simons
Future of journalism: migrating to a new digital world
We journalists are like migrants to the new digital age. We have a risky journey ahead, which means we must push out many boats, recognising that only some will make it, writes Margaret Simons.
Dr Neale Fong, our part in his downfall
Crikey features in the Corruption and Crime Commission report dealing with the complex relationship between Brian Burke and Dr Neale Fong.
