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Fairfax Media Limited

Type	Public company
Traded as	( – FXJ)
Industry	Media
Founded	1841; 177 years ago (1841) (as John Fairfax and Sons)
Headquarters	1 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Area served	Australia New Zealand
Key people	Greg Hywood (CEO) Nick Falloon (Chairman)
Products	Newspapers Radio Magazines Internet
Revenue	AU$ 1.85 billion (13 August 2015)
Net income	AU$ 143.4 million (13 August 2015)
Number of employees	6,410 full-time employees 1,211 part-time and casual employees (24 June 2012)
Website	FXJ.com.au

Fairfax Media Limited (formerly John Fairfax and Sons) is one of the largest media companies in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties. The company was founded by John Fairfax who purchased The Sydney Morning Herald in 1841, and the Fairfax family retained control of the business until late in the 20th century.

Today, the company also owns major Australian newspapers The Age and Australian Financial Review, a majority stake in property business Domain Group and the Macquarie Radio Network, as well as joint ventures in both streaming service Stan and online publisher HuffPost Australia.

The group's chairman is Nick Falloon and the chief executive officer is Greg Hywood.

John Fairfax purchased The Sydney Morning Herald in 1841. Several generations of the Fairfax family continued to control the company. Fairfax Media was founded by the Fairfax family as John Fairfax and Sons, later to become John Fairfax Holdings. The Fairfax family lost control of the company in December 1990. It was renamed from John Fairfax Holdings to Fairfax Media in 2007.

The Australian Financial Review was founded in 1951. In that decade, Fairfax started two television stations, ATN and QTQ. Fairfax began expanding in the 1960s, acquiring, among others, The Age, The Newcastle Herald and the Illawarra Mercury. In 1979, Rupert Murdoch attempted to take over rival The Herald and Weekly Times. Due to the costs of defending the takeover, Fairfax sold its television properties, including the Seven Network. In 1988, Fairfax sold its magazines (including Woman's Day, People, Dolly, and Good Housekeeping) to Australian Consolidated Press, and discontinued its Sydney afternoon tabloid The Sun, transferring some of its content and the sponsorship of the City to Surf to its new Sunday tabloid The Sun-Herald which also replaced the broadsheet Sunday Herald.