MEAA welcomes Senate’s future of journalism inquiry
MEAA welcomes the establishment of a Senate select committee that will inquire and report on the future of journalism in Australia.
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Fairfax journalists take their campaign to Federal Parliament
Veteran Budget analysts and writers from the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age –journalists the public rely on to cut through the spin for the real story – will be missing from the Federal Budget press pack this year.
More than 60 journalists from both mastheads will travel to Canberra today to join their Press Gallery colleagues outside ...
Fairfax editorial staff vote to take industrial action for seven days
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 – MEAA’s press freedom report 2017
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.
...Fairfax marks World Press Freedom Day by cutting 25 per cent of its journalists
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.
