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Fairfax – Where did it all go right?

In a piece first written prior to the announcement, for Saturday's "Best of the Week" email, Mumbrella's Tim Burrowes examines how Fairfax Media came back from the critical list. As I write this ... o... read more

Media Backtalk

Media Backtalk Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 28, ... 2 inches of snow should not shut down the entire area. It is ridiculous. ... Fairfax, Va.: Not trying to sound ... read more

Painful lessons in Fairfax demise

Yesterday in Sydney, I helped launch a book called Killing Fairfax - Packer, Murdoch & the Ultimate Revenge, by Pamela Williams, editor at large of the Australian Financial Review. It's about how Fair... read more

Fairfax Media joins News Corp with real estate as bigger profit source than news

Community Media recorded $74.3m profits, down from $77.4m. New Zealand Media was $43.3m, down from $54.2m and Radio was up to $22.3m from $11m. Fairfax posted a net loss after tax of $893.5m, followin... read more

Fairfax shrinks in size, shrinks from hard decisions

What Fairfax fails to take into account is that sophisticated news consumers are aware that size doesn’t matter when it comes to serious journalistic content. Fairfax’s tabloid-sized Australian Financ... read more

Dining review: Breakfast gets make-over at the longtime Shoreline

Thirty-two years in, Bonnie is still waiting tables on the weekends and her cohort, Alice — at 87, the "young one'" with a mere 15 years at Shoreline — works the weekday shifts ... a hop and a skip do... read more

Q&A With The Post Ombudsman

Washington, D.C.: Over the last three years, The Washington Post has engaged in an intense review ... Post editors write a positive comment about Republicans. And why, is Herb Block, a stated liberal, ... read more

Best Treatment for Chronic Insomnia is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

(Four years ago I wrote about the ” target=”_blank”>a review of prior studies of CBT-i. The study reviewed 20 randomized controlled trials involving over 1,000 participants. CBT-i significantly improv... read more

The Morning Ledger: Restraining Credit in China is a Challenging Task

But, last week’s troubles in the bond market show how difficult this task will be, John Lyons and Rachel Rosenthal write. A gradual tightening of ... tumbled following moves by regulators to crack dow... read more

Conroy warns of demise of newspapers

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says the dramatic restructures at Fairfax Media and News Limited this ... prediction for traditional weekday editions. "I wouldn't be putting money betting that ... read more

John Drinnan: Frenemies co-operate on news

Well-placed sources say that beyond the new links with Sky TV, MediaWorks has also developed closer editorial links with Fairfax Media ... who is dominant on weekday morning radio. I hasten to add tha... read more

Don’t drop that box! 25 tips for Moving Day

1. Research moving services. Look for reviews and make sure the companies are licensed. 2. If you need to hire a moving service or rent a truck, schedule your move on non-peak days. There is more avai... read more