Union told to expect Fairfax redundancies within 60 to 90 days

Tim Burrowes

June 18, 2012 7:49

Representatives from journalists’ union the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance have emerged from talks with Fairfax over today’s bombshell job cuts announcement with little new detail of the company’s plans.

According to a statement from the union, representatives met with Fairfax Media Metro CEO Jack Matthews, and publisher and editor-in-chief of The Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Fray.

A statement from the union tonight said: “Matthews and Fray were able to offer little in the way of detail to expand on the morning’s announcement. Matthews indicated they did not have a proposal to put to us on how redundancies would be handled, other than to say the aim was to see them occur in the next 60-90 days.”

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.