Fairfax: The Rise and Fall
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Fairfax: The Rise and Fall

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fairfax: The Rise and Fall

About this book

Fairfax - once a great Australian media company - faces a grim future. Newspapers worldwide are faltering in the face of competition from the internet, but the fate of Fairfax stands out as being particularly cruel. The carnage is barely credible.
Massive printing plants are being dismantled. Hundreds of fine journalists have been ushered from the building. The newspapers themselves are on notice. The future of the company is shaky.
Fairfax: The Rise and Fall is a story that is book-ended by young Warwick Fairfax and Gina Rinehart—the eccentric beneficiaries of two of the greatest family fortunes Australia has ever seen. But the real players in the Fairfax saga are the business and political giants. They include Kerry Packer, Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black, John Howard, Paul Keating, Neville Wran, David Gonski, Roger Corbett and Fred Hilmer. The once-mighty Fairfax has been a victim of them all.
Colleen Ryan gives the definitive account of the fate of Fairfax, a drama-filled saga that reveals how far Fairfax has fallen

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Prologue: Rinehart Stakes Her Claim
  6. 1 The Fairfax Family
  7. 2 No Respecter of Persons or Parties
  8. 3 Goanna, Nifty and the New Tiberius of the Telephone
  9. 4 Silly Little Bastard
  10. 5 The Shakespearean Tragedy
  11. 6 Cultural Misfits
  12. 7 Clash of the Moguls
  13. 8 The Kingmaker
  14. 9 A Grubby Business
  15. 10 Powers Play
  16. 11 The Trophy Board
  17. 12 His Grandest Experiment
  18. 13 Musical Chairs
  19. 14 Mr Melbourne and Captain Kirk
  20. 15 In Their Place
  21. 16 The Departed
  22. 17 Just a Grocer
  23. 18 Gina’s Future
  24. 19 Rattled off the Floor
  25. Epilogue: Good Advice
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index