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Fairfax Media writes down A$1bn as it reviews weekday printing

Fairfax Media is writing down the value of its publishing ... changing business model that may include ceasing printing on weekdays. The publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial ... read more

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 ... ... read more

Fairfax Media triples profits, confirms considering Domain spin-off

Fairfax Media ... Review. He said Mr Janz would implement "even greater primacy of our digital publishing focus" designed to sustain a "commercially successful print proposition". He told analysts on ... read more

Fairfax Gives Another 30 Journos The Heave-Ho

It comes after reports yesterday suggested Fairfax may soon stop printing its weekday editions ... by The Australian’s Media Diary Column as controversial columnist Paul Sheehan, who was “stood down” ... read more

Fairfax will print its newspapers daily 'for some years yet'

Fairfax Media, which had been expected to switch its Monday to Friday newspaper printing to digital only ... a net loss after tax of $893.5 million. Revenue was down 2% to $1.830 billion. Excluding ... read more

THE DISTILLERY: Woolworths beef

Also, in a much needed shot from The Distillery this Friday, the anticipated paywall announcement from Fairfax Media ... stop printing its metro mastheads, or at least the weekday editions, and shift ... 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, ... read more

Univision ‘deliberating’ on gawker.com—Bannon news goes bananas—Kushner coverage fatigue?

The winner will probably shut it down,” a source told the New York Post earlier this week (http://nyp.st/2btRp3V). Story Continued Below Meanwhile, Morning Media heard ... three newspapers by weekday ... read more

For Virginia Dems, there goes the wheel that comes around

Mr. Fairfax concedes ... to — about to mow down a crowd of minority children. The moving finger writes, what goes around comes around, and all that good stuff. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com ... read more

Domain a success, now Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood will focus on Drive and Stan

Fairfax Media reported that first-half profits more than tripled to $84 million, reflecting large write-downs in the ... growth at the Financial Review. He told analysts on Wednesday that shutting the ... read more

The future of journalism as a public trust

Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review “Rupert Murdoch comes from a very different tradition of Australian-British media ... down to 11.3 million and the Sundays to 12 million: reductions of 27% ... read more

Fairfax to write off value of publishing assets by $989m

Media group Fairfax says it will write off the ... model could see the weekday editions of The Age and SMH scrapped and The Australian Financial Review’s weekend paper culled. “(The new plan) could ... read more