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Rebekah Brooks enjoys Sydney holiday … renaming the Sunday SMH? … Chris Bowen turns his hand to writing …

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Fairfax journo hits out: fear and favour in AFR takeover

Fairfax journalist Paddy Manning fears the incursion of The Australian Financial Review in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He writes scathingly of his employer for Crikey.

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Media briefs: Bad News for Rupert … Nine duds Guide … the jewry’s out …

The Sun on Sunday’s circulation is tumbling — a bad sign for Rupert Murdoch’s new publishing arm. And other media tidbits.

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The verdict is in as Fairfax goes ‘compact’: SMH

Crikey has assembled a crack team of ex-editors and journalists cast their eyes over the new, compact Sydney Morning Herald.

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Media briefs: Fairfax’s compacts … Oz on climate … Rudd’s chin-ups …

Fairfax unveils its new “compact” front pages. And other media tidbits.

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Hywood goads Guardian as Fairfax results show revenues down

Fairfax’s financial results released today paint a mixed picture for the troubled company, with profits up but revenue down.

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Tips and rumours

The SMH knows no boundaries … empty chair at Opera Australia … Abbott’s terra nullius

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Foreign bureaux get the chop as News, Fairfax cut costs

Is there a future for newspapers’ foreign correspondents in the digital age? The signs don’t look good as Australia’s editors look to cut costs — and the US and Europe look like the next to go.

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The era of the readers’ editor … over before it started

You won’t see The Sydney Morning Herald second-guessing itself on its op-ed page any more. The paper has ditched its readers’ editor position after a little over a year.

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SMH business scribes join flight from Fairfax

Three of The Sydney Morning Herald’s most-experienced business reporters  —  Ian Verrender, Elisabeth Sexton and Scott Rochfort  —  will depart the paper after accepting redundancy.

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The free-fall of Fairfax: only our news appetite will save it

What are the possible futures for Fairfax Media, following the latest lurch in what the company points out is the biggest restructure in its history?

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Fairfax newsroom restructure: the full list

Fairfax staff at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age gathered this afternoon for a long-awaited announcement on the new reporting structures at the papers. Here is the full list of appointments.

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Fairfax D-day: journos ‘kick the tyres’ as union demands extension

Fairfax staffers are demanding the company extend its voluntary redundancy round for journalists whose roles are axed or dramatically changed in the editorial overhaul due to be announced this afternoon.

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Ranald Macdonald: what will be left after the Gina Bomb explodes?

The profession of journalism is under the microscope at present with, sadly, too few defenders, writes Ranald Macdonald, a former editor-in-chief of The Age.

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Lessons in how to put out newspapers without any staff

Fairfax journalists returned to work this morning after 36 hours on strike, but not in time to breathe life into anaemic editions of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Matthew Knott and Andrew Crook report.

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Latham’s Henderson Watch VI: anyone for seconds?

Evidence suggests that much of Henderson’s column is a cut-and-paste job from his earlier writings, writes former Labor leader Mark Latham.

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Beecher: govt funding could stem loss of serious newspapers

What kind of democracy would we live in if it didn’t include the work of a thousand-or-so newspaper reporters and editors?

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Crikey says: buzzwords won’t cut it

Just under six years ago an unconventional news website called The Huffington Post was launched in the US. Yesterday it was sold for US$315 million.

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Fairfax faces the future by going deeply vertical

Fairfax staff are bracing for a wave of “efficiency” gains across The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald after the company’s long-awaited investor briefing this morning relayed the widely-expected news that at least $10 million would be hacked out of the mastheads through a new corporate restructure.

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New Fairfax app misses the innovation boat

Fairfax has launched a new Sydney Morning Herald iPad application. It is bad enough that the app resembles a PDF reader, says Tim Burrowes, but forcing users to subscribe to the print edition is ludicrous.

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Sydney society abuzz over McGurk

The desperation the Sydney media has for its own version of Melbourne’s Underbelly knows no end as they try to outscoop each other over the murder of small-time Sydney standover merchant Michael McGurk.

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Fairfax ‘Clayton’s’ business merger’ may yet claim scalps

The restructure of business reporting at Fairfax has been announced, but staff are still trying to get to grips with what it actually means, writes Margaret Simons.

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Fairfax calls its mastheads “Cash Generating Units”

Fairfax has an unfortunate way with words for a company that publishes so many, writes Glenn Dyer.

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Fairfax bloodbath set to get bloodier

Analysts are expecting a torrent of red ink when stricken old media firm Fairfax releases its first half results on Monday, writes Andrew Crook.

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More cost cutting on the cards for Oz papers

More news from the cost-cutting front at newspapers around the nation, writes Margaret Simons.

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