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Australia's Fairfax Staff Cuts Reflect Move To Digital Media

In a briefing in Melbourne to editorial staff at The Age, The Sunday Age and theage.com.au website, Garry Linnell said a new editorial model to be introduced from July 1 would reverse the ratio of print staff to digital staff. He briefed Fairfax's Sydney editorial staff on Monday about the coming changes. Fairfax has for several months run an editorial review project in Sydney and Melbourne to determine how newsrooms and their staff will work as a digital media company. The first set of recommendations from that project will be released in the next four weeks ready for the July 1 rollout.

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