The internal machinations at Fairfax and News Limited surely tell us that we live in an age where the newspaper business is increasingly devoid of sentiment.
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Simons: Fairfax and its 48 hours of WTF moments
This was meant to be Fairfax’s big, though awful moment. The time when it showed the market that it knew what it was doing and there was a vision. But the vision thing is being dimmed.
Bartholomeusz: Woolworths’ executive exodus
Where once Woolworths dictated terms to Coles, it now finds itself in the unaccustomed position of being forced to react to Coles’ initiatives.
Sovereign wealth fund … at least give it some thought please
The story in the Fairfax broadsheets today about how big business wants a sovereign wealth fund to save our windfall from the resources boom again was a horribly lopsided article.
Roger Corbett: front page news one day, vanished the next
An RBA board member and prominent businessman backs the RSPT. How does the media cover it? It doesn’t.
We waited for this? Serial board members but no media experience for Fairfax
It is hard to understand why it has taken Fairfax Media more than three months to announce the trio of relatively tame board appointments. Still nobody on the board has an inside understanding of journalism.
Fairfax earnings: pull out the digital and it’s a pain in the tale
Fairfax Media’s digital business was the only part of the group to perform in the six months to December.
Fairfax AGM: coming last and loving it
Guess what? I got 42 million Fairfax votes in favour of my board tilt! And, err, 1.37 billion against. Stephen Mayne on coming last.
Fairfax a ‘laughing stock’ over Evans conflict
It took two years for the Fairfax Board to realise that David Evans, one of its members, was in breach of the law by being a director of both Fairfax Media and Village Roadshow. Just another example of poor governance at Fairfax?
There may still be twists in the Fairfax tale
The Fairfax AGM tomorrow may not be quite the cakewalk the board has been at such pains to orchestrate.
With Roger Corbett, it’s a question of character
Roger Corbett’s Christian values didn’t appear to count for much when the opportunity presented for Woolies to leap into the pokies business. Why is the anti-gambling Salvation Army associated with someone who actively supports pokies?
Corbett’s Fairfax still a leaky boat, says analyst
The latest Fairfax skipper, Roger Corbett, is going have to row mighty hard and with a “titanic” weight on his shoulders, writes Roger Montgomery.
Fairfax board: what happened to the other three candidates?
The papers are full of news and views about the elevation of Roger Corbett as chairman of the Fairfax Media Board. But what has happened to the three candidates who have already nominated?
What to think about Roger Corbett and the Fairfax Board?
Predictably, Roger Corbett is the new chairman of Fairfax. Will he encourage brave hiring and get more into new media? He’d better, writes Margaret Simons.
Guy Rundle: A memo from incoming Fairfax chair Roger Corbett
A memo from the new chair of the Fairfax board has fallen off the back of a delivery van. Guy Rundle reports:
Fairfax recruit highlights new employer’s no-vacancy rort
The so-called no-vacancy rule makes getting on a public company board impossible for outsiders. Forcing institutions to disclose how they vote will further expose the old boys’ network, starting with Fairfax.
Does Fairfax need a 67-year-old grocer at the helm?
Roger Corbett is poised to become Chairman of Fairfax. Does he honestly believe he is the best person to steer Australia’s venerable newspaper publisher through the most challenging period in its history?
When will News expose the Evans/Fairfax conflict, Terry?
With a Murdoch associate on the Fairfax board, the hands of News Limited commentators are tied, which is why commentary on Ron Walker leaving has been particularly quiet.
Ron “will he, won’t he” Walker regrets rien
Fairfax chairman Ron Walker is still being coy about whether or not he’ll resign come the fractious November AGM. He has told The Australian that without him, “this company wouldn’t be alive today.”
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.
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?
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.
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.
Hockey stumbles on economics 101
Joe Hockey reckons the federal government is running out of “fuel” to get the economy through the global financial crisis, writes Glenn Dyer.
