MEAA Releases

Latest releases from MEAA


MEAA welcomes Senate’s future of journalism inquiry

MEAA welcomes the establishment of a Senate select committee that will inquire and report on the future of journalism in Australia ...

Fairfax journalists take their campaign to Federal Parliament

Veteran Budget analysts and writers from the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age –journalists the public rely on to cut through the spin for the real story – will be missing from the Federal Budget press pack this year. More than 60 journalists from both mastheads will travel to Canberra ...

Fairfax editorial staff vote to take industrial action for seven days

In stop-work meetings today, Fairfax editorial staff voted to take industrial action for seven days. Staff are disgusted at the company’s decision to cut 25 per cent of its journalists as part of $30 million in cost savings. The decision means that 125 full-time equivalent positions will be lost. The ...

Fairfax marks World Press Freedom Day by cutting 25 per cent of its journalists

MEAA is appalled at the decision of Fairfax Media management to cut 125 full-time equivalent positions, or 25 per cent of its journalists, from its metropolitan newspapers ...

The Chilling Effect – the 2017 press freedom report

The AFP access a journalist's phone call data without a warrant in a secret hunt for whistleblowers ...