Fairfax Sydney staff condemn lack of vision by ‘overpaid and underperforming executives Greg Hywood and Allen Williams’
Fairfax Media staff in Sydney have condemned the lack of vision being presented to staff, arguing the quality of journalists leaving the company “is not matched by the overpaid and underperforming executives Greg Hywood and Allen Williams”.
Staff have called on Hywood and Williams, director of Australian Publishing Media at Fairfax Media, to address staff and present their vision for the future of the company.
Fairfax Sydney staff also passed a vote of no-confidence in senior leadership during yesterday’s stop-work meeting, which was called to discuss 30 forced redundancies at the newspaper publishing company after the newspaper publisher failed to attract enough voluntary redundancies.
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Hywood is simply unbelievable. One minute he is spinning the core value in Fairfax journalism. The next he is telling people that carving up the newsroom as a path to the future. The only way someone can do that is if they have utter contempt for anyone who takes them seriously. This is what the Fairfax board calls leadership.
“Quality journalism” eh? To that end, could we please have less ‘gotcha’ journalism and less brazen click-bait? The speed with which FF presented us with pictures and text on the subject of “$6000 toasters” yesterday morning makes me wonder about FF’s priorities. Are gotcha moments the first item of business in news conferences these days? Does FF have a dedicated gotcha team? It’s a far cry from measured, detailed, researched analysis into policy announcements. I want to believe that journalism of TRUE quality has a future in Australia – but FF isn’t giving me a whole lot to work with at the moment …
Recipes, celebrities, real estate, cute animals….
It’s kind of unbelievable it took Fairfax staff this long to pass a no confidence motion in regards to Hywood et al. Blind Freddy could see he has no plan other than attempting to cut his way to glory – and that has never worked for any business.