Warwick Fairfax
Warwick Fairfax (born December 1960) is an Australian businessman who had tried unsuccessfully to privatise his family's media company Fairfax Media in 1987. He was the son of Warwick Oswald Fairfax and his third wife, Mary, Lady Fairfax. Educated at Oxford and Harvard, he successfully took over the company but on 10 December 1990 the company collapsed and a receiver was appointed. The controversial method of financing and purchasing holdings of the established company from family members and the consequential problems arising in the media group in later years are still cited today in Australian media history.
References
- A history of The Age newspaper
- Family affair again after days of young Warwick The Age, Melbourne
- Coleridge, Nicholas (1994-03). Paper Tigers: The Latest, Greatest Newspaper Tycoons. Secaucus, N.J: Birch Lane Press. ISBN 9781559722155. Check date values in:
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