Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization 
Fairfax Media
Location Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australasia Gender Male
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John Fairfax was an English-born journalist, company director, politician, librarian, and newspaper owner, known for the incorporation of the major newspapers of modern-day Australia. John Fairfax was apprenticed to William Perry, a bookseller, and printer in Warwick, and in 1825 went to London where he worked as a compositor in a general printing
office and on the Morning Chronicle. Within two years, Fairfax had left and established himself at Leamington Spa as a printer, bookseller, and stationer.
