Fairfax Staff On Strike!
Posted by Clem Bastow at 5:30 PM on August 28, 2008
On Tuesday, Fairfax announced 550 job cuts across their editorial staff. On Wednesday, the first to go was The Age's editor-in-chief, Andrew Jaspan. And now, on Thursday, Fairfax staff are on strike until Monday!
Here's the word we were just sent via the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance's handy SMS service, in two parts:

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