The axe falls at Fairfax Five hundred and fifty staff at Fairfax are to go in a major restructure. Management said they were largely immune from the global newspaper downturn, but has the reality of falling circulation and advertising income finally caught up? And what power do the organisations staff have to fight the cuts?

Lord of the Flicks The current head of the New Zealand Film Commission, Dr Ruth Harley, has just been appointed to head-up the Australian film industry´s new uber-agency `Screen Australia´. She tells us about her background and the direction she intends to take in her new role. Cyber war or cyber riot? The Georgians maintain they´ve been the victims of cyber-warfare, but there is division within internet security circles about whether what is happening is in fact `cyber-warfare´, whether the Russian government is actually involved and also how significant the event really is. A POOL of creative commons Those who seek a middle way between junking copyright altogether on the one hand, and slavishly trying to enforce it on the other, often talk about what´s called `Creative Commons´ licensing. Even large media organizations are starting to look at this innovative form of licensing. In fact the ABC has just launched a new online collaboration site called POOL, which gives contributors the option of using just such an arrangement. The Executive Producer of POOL is Sherre Delys...

The secret treaty The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA as it´s also known, doesn´t sound like a hot media topic, but its international negotiation process, led by the US, Japan and the EU, has sparked quite a deal of online interest and concern. The stated aim of the agreement is to provide a common international framework for the protection of intellectual property. Now a high level of secrecy has surrounded ACTA, and that secrecy has led to a large amount of web speculation about the actual intent of the treaty. Txtng Rls! Linguist David Crystal has just done a comprehensive study of text messaging. He dismisses the idea that text language is corrupting English. In fact he says it actually helps promote literacy. Tabloid Man Sandra Hall talks with us about her new book Tabloid Man: The Life and Times of Ezra Norton. Norton was a Titan of the Tabloids back in the first half of the twentieth century. He built up the Truth stable of papers in the 1920s and 30s and established the now defunct Daily Mirro in Sydney in the 1940s.

The Gruen Division? The audience loved it and it´s apparently led to a flurry of interest in advertising as a career, but has the ABC´s Gruen Transfer caused divisions within the industry? But Wait, There's More! Dr Robert Crawford is a Research Fellow with the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King´s College London. And he´s the author of a detailed history of the Australian advertising sector called, But Wait, There´s More.