
- 328 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue: Rinehart Stakes Her Claim
- 1 The Fairfax Family
- 2 No Respecter of Persons or Parties
- 3 Goanna, Nifty and the New Tiberius of the Telephone
- 4 Silly Little Bastard
- 5 The Shakespearean Tragedy
- 6 Cultural Misfits
- 7 Clash of the Moguls
- 8 The Kingmaker
- 9 A Grubby Business
- 10 Powers Play
- 11 The Trophy Board
- 12 His Grandest Experiment
- 13 Musical Chairs
- 14 Mr Melbourne and Captain Kirk
- 15 In Their Place
- 16 The Departed
- 17 Just a Grocer
- 18 Gina’s Future
- 19 Rattled off the Floor
- Epilogue: Good Advice
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index