Senior journalists leave Sydney Morning Herald, Age and AFR in decade’s biggest talent exodus

Up to 85 staff take a voluntary redundancy after Nine newspapers announced it was cutting 200 jobs

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Up to 85 journalists, most of them senior, have taken a voluntary redundancy from mastheads including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Australian Financial Review in the biggest exodus of editorial talent since the company formerly known as Fairfax Media shed more than 150 journalists in 2012.

The departures bookend a period of upheaval at Nine Entertainment during which 500 journalists at its publishing arm took industrial action over pay negotiations and the announcement of big cuts across the media business.

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