Fairfax chief executive won’t commit to weekday print editions beyond this year,the Australian targets a modern chief of staff and Andrew Bolt objects to ‘rightwing’ tagAfter journalists returned to work from a three-day strike this week Fairfax Media’s chief executive, Greg Hywood, or had some satisfactory news and some contemptible news about the future of the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. The satisfactory news: the papers won’t stop printing the Monday to Friday editions this year. The contemptible news: there is no guarantee beyond those short nine months because “I can’t say that newspapers are forever.”Hywood,who earns $2.5m a year, is also sticking to his rather counterintuitive mantra that the loss of 120 journalists is necessary to preserve “quality journalism”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com