Winner of the 2013 Walkey book award:
Killing Fairfax
Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge
An incisive, hard-hitting and utterly compelling exposé of media, powerful mates and multimillion-dollar deals.
With exclusive and unprecedented access to both Murdoch and Packer, as well as an extraordinary line-up of Australian business leaders and influential powerbrokers, Killing Fairfax is a powerful insiders’ story of the deals, the power plays and the machinations behind the decline of the influential media company Fairfax, publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age And The Australian Financial Review.
A riveting, never-before-told tale of Shakespearean dimensions, Killing Fairfax is a riveting account of corporate ambition and arrogance; fathers and sons; old media and new media; and brutal business dealings.
“The first chapter of KILLING FAIRFAX by Pam Williams reads like a thriller. I highly recommend it.” – Leigh Sales, Anchor of ABC1 7:30
About the Author
Pamela Williams is the Editor-at-Large for The Australian Financial Review, writing investigative stories across politics and the corporate world. She is the author of the political book The Victory, and has won five Walkley awards including the Gold Walkley in 1998 for her coverage of the waterfront dispute. She has won the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year award; the George Munster award; a Melbourne Press Club Quill award, the Melbourne Press Club/Trawalla Arts Journalism award, and the Citigroup Journalism Award.
