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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.