Veteran Fairfax journalist and editor Gerard Noonan makes his pitch for election to the board of Fairfax Media in an attempt to end the company’s “childish corporate bickering”.
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Corbett’s tough call: what will Fairfax’s deputy chairman do?
Fairfax chairman Ron Walker wants to stay until March. But with the Marinya camp’s significant minority pushing for an earlier demise, any victory would be pyrrhic, says Jennifer Hewett. Time for a push?
Beecher: Walker squabbles while Fairfax burns
The feud between Fairfax Chairman Ron Walker and the Fairfax family is like watching a brawl between the captain and senior personnel on the Titanic, while the ship sinks and the crew jump for their lives.
Fairfax falls further into the abyss
The Fairfax Board needs people who understand media — and in particular, what a media company needs to be in the internet age. Ron Walker has never understood media, let alone new media.
Crikey Says: Fairfax as the national leaders in quality journalism? Ahem.
While the house burns, Ron Walker and the Fairfaxes fight over the silverware. Unfortunately for everyone, quality journalism isn’t a shiny platter.
The campaign against name-dropping Ron may not be wholly right
It’s hard to feel any sympathy for Ron Walker, the embattled Fairfax Media chairman: he’s worth $400 million, had a good innings and is an inveterate name dropper.
Ron Walker’s reign of error must end
John B Fairfax has got 775 million reasons for ousting Ron Walker. Ever since Fairfax Media merged with Rural Press, the destruction of his fortune has been nothing short of spectacular.
Knight: Fairfax’s silent coup
Ron Walker’s ousting from Fairfax has been a long time coming, says Elizabeth Knight. But now everything is out in the open, there may be some hope for reforming the company’s completely dysfunctional board.
Bartholomeusz: Walking the plank
Fairfax Chairman Ron Walker’s declaration of his retirement intentions to the AFR was the final straw for shareholders, who weren’t big fans of his in the first place, says Stephen Bartholomeusz.
Fairfax gives Walker the finger
The Fairfax family has issued an extraordinary statement announcing it will not support Fairfax Media Chairman Ron Walker continuing in his post. Margaret Simons on how it all turned sour.
Walker must walk from Fairfax now
Fairfax patriarch John B Fairfax has condemned Ron Walker’s term as chairman, demanding he resign at the company’s November annual general meeting.
Walker’s departure sends Fairfax shares up
Fairfax shares rose 4.2% this morning off the back of the story in The Financial Review reporting that Chairman Ron Walker will step down in August next year.
Essential Baby readers 60% male and other strange stats
The people reading two of Fairfax’s ‘marquee’ websites, youth-oriented The Vine and Essential Baby, aren’t who you’d expect, says Ben Shepherd — what does this mean for advertisers?
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’s The National Times tells the same old story
Opinion is cheap in every sense of the word. And it’s what Fairfax’s new National Times gives us more of. But, says Margaret Simons, if you want journalism, in the long term you will have to pay people to do it.
Crikey Says: SMH: from profit-plunge to awards
What does it take to be Australia’s newspaper of the year?
Fairfax launches new website under an old masthead
Fairfax Digital has launched a new website under a resurrected masthead that hasn’t been published since the mid ’80s: The National Times. So what is it? Pure Poison investigates.
Stokes-Murdoch “showdown” a damp squib
It’s back to business as usual in the Australian media, with Stokes and Packer dividing up the juiciest bits of the industry, just as Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch did a decade or so ago.
Fairfax prevails in print, News dominates digital at Newspaper Awards
The Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association’s annual awards were held last night, with News Digital Media winning in several online categories, but Fairfax picking up the most prestigious Newspaper of the Year award for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Comings and goings in the Nine newsroom
There’s movement at the station down at Nine Melbourne, Fairfax’s traineeships still on suspension, Woolies builds its own hardware team, and more from the Crikey tipsters.
Will Kirk’s $4 million farewell be the end of Ron Walker?
After six years on the Fairfax Media board, the last four as chairman, Ron Walker looks like he’s doing a John Howard in attempting to stay one term too many.
The unslanted state of the Australian media
The Australian media is pretty much neutral when it comes to slanted reporting, apart from a new notable exceptions, writes Joshua Gans. So how did everyone react to the news?
Voting on The Age’s new business-sport-tabloid hybrid
Malcolm Farnsworth looks at the shrinking importance of the business section in The Age and perhaps a hidden agenda for the sports section.
Crikey Says: Costello’s ABC attacks should be addressed
The ABC is “hostile territory” for conservative politicians, says Peter Costello in his latest op-ed. This is a serious attack on the ABC’s editorial professionalism and should be treated as such.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Performance reviews for Fairfax bosses
Fairfax media does performance reviews, further troubles for Qantas and which towns are listed as high risk for the upcoming Victorian bushfire season?
