In stop-work meetings today, Fairfax editorial staff voted to take industrial action for seven days.
Staff are disgusted at the company’s decision to cut 25 per cent of its journalists as part of $30 million in cost savings. The decision means that 125 full-time equivalent positions will be lost.
The cuts are so deep that the Fairfax mastheads will have to dramatically ...
The Chilling Effect – the report into the State of Press Freedom in Australia in 2017.
The Chilling Effect - the report into the State of Press Freedom in Australia in 2017MEAA's annual report into press freedom in Australia.
...MEAA is appalled at the decision of Fairfax Media management to cut 125 full-time equivalent positions, or 25 per cent of its journalists, from its metropolitan newspapers.
The AFP access a journalist’s phone call data without a warrant in a secret hunt for whistleblowers.
A new essay written by the former director of television at the ABC is a timely and worthwhile contribution to the debate about the future of the public broadcaster and its role in nurturing a home grown screen industry.
