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Crikey readers talk the GST, whether the rich are paying enough tax and dangling modifiers at The Age.

ANDREW CROOK | ADVERTISING|

News Ltd’s Carsguide brand in turmoil, Hun subs nervous

Carsguide, one of News Limited’s strongest classifieds brands, has been hit by the sacking of a managing editor and the exit of its publisher. It’s one of many incidents buzzing around News offices.

ANDREW CROOK | COMPANIES|

Fairfax staff revolt: ‘subs are still in fashion’

As hundreds of revved-up Fairfax staff move en-masse to rallying points in Sydney and Melbourne in their fight over CEO Greg Hywood’s planned sacking of 300 comrades, the anecdotes have have been flowing thick and fast.

ANDREW CROOK | COMPANIES|

No mercy: Fairfax errs in sticking with sub sack plan

Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood ignores union pleas to backflip on outsourcing subeditors, forging ahead with the controversial proposal and sending morale inside his newsrooms plummeting.

ADVERTISING|

MEAA: risk-taking Fairfax needs a plan that works

Fairfax Media’s cost-cutting strategy is a risky business, writes Christopher Warren, of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance.

MARGARET SIMONS | MEDIA|

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.

ANDREW CROOK | COMPANIES|

Angry hacks demand Fairfax look elsewhere for savings

Torrents of anger continue to course through Fairfax newsrooms in Melbourne and Sydney after chief executive Greg Hywood told staff he would trigger forced redundancies if subeditors in the firing line refused to sack themselves.

MARGARET SIMONS | JOURNALISM|

Sub standards: Pagemasters to change the way we read

Pagemasters is now a major employer in its own right, and it’s going to get bigger.

Torontoist | JOURNALISM|

Why you should never piss-off a sub-editor

Newspaper The Toronto Star recently announced it would be outsourcing some of its sub-editing work. So the paper’s disgruntled subbies have taken a red pen to the publisher’s internal memo announcing the move, proving exactly why they’re needed.

ANDREW CROOK | JOURNALISM|

Interest rate horse puns: their cups runneth over

The priceless coincidence of two major news events occurring within an hour of each other yesterday had the nation’s top journalists jockeying relentlessly in their favourite pursuit: tenuously-linked punnage.

The Guardian | JOURNALISM|

Guardian apologises to its subbies: OK, you’re journalists, too

The Guardian has retracted the line “journalists and subeditors are not expected to be multilingual” in a recent article, after it presumably caused offense to the paper’s subs. “Subeditors are journalists” said the paper after changing the line to “reporters and subeditors”.

No government this morning

With all the media focus on the Opposition at the moment, the government are staying very very quiet. Plus, the sneaking humorous world of sub editors.

Crikey Blogs | JOURNALISM|