Journalists at 2 of Australia’s Biggest Papers Strike Over Job Cuts<br />By JACQUELINE WILLIAMSMAY 3, 2017<br />SYDNEY, Australia — Staff members at The Sydney Morning Herald<br />and The Age, among the most powerful voices in the Australian news media, began a weeklong strike on Wednesday over job cuts at Fairfax Media.<br />On Wednesday morning, the company sent an email to staff members saying it would cut 125 full-time positions at The Sydney Morning Herald<br />and The Age in Melbourne, with cuts also expected at The Australian Financial Review.<br />It’s death by a thousand cuts." He added, "We find it really frustrating<br />that after years and years of cuts, still the organization hasn’t been able to come up with a solution which doesn’t require cutting the very thing that we do, which is producing good-quality journalism." An earlier version of this article incorrectly listed one Fairfax newspaper among those whose workers went on strike.<br />In his email to staff members on Wednesday, Sean Aylmer, the editorial director at Fairfax Media, said<br />that all editorial sections could be affected but that some jobs would be hit especially hard.<br />Bachelard said that The history of these strikes —<br />and we’ve done a number over the years as the cuts have progressively gotten worse — is that management is still able to put out a newspaper,<br />Andrew Hornery, a senior journalist who has worked for The Sydney Morning Herald for 22 years<br />and writes the Private Sydney column, stood outside his newsroom with co-workers and said: "It’s a great shame what’s happening.
