AAP becomes Fairfax’s most prolific writer in strike edition as Age breaks its own embargo

Dr Mumbo is always interested to see which senior newspaper executives are dragged to the coalface and forced to tackle a keyboard rather than a calculator when journos strike.

This week’s wildcat strike after 120 redundancies were announced at Fairfax saw Saturday’s Sydney Morning Herald and Age thump (well perhaps float) onto doorsteps with SMH and Sun Herald editor-in-chief Darren Goodsir and Age senior editor Mark Hawthorne teaming to write the splash on the Senate deal.

Hawthorne was a busy man with his hand in three stories, but the two standout performers were AAP and Anon which across news and sport managed to contribute at least 24 stories between them.

The AFR and, by virtue of the relationship, The AGE and SMH business sections, fared slightly better thanks to the contracts many of the AFR journos work under and there were plenty of bylines across the Fin and its metro business siblings.