Journalists at 2 of Australia’s Biggest Papers Strike Over Job Cutsbr By JACQUELINE WILLIAMSMAY 3, 2017br SYDNEY, Australia — Staff members at The Sydney Morning Heraldbr and The Age, among the most powerful voices in the Australian news media, began a weeklong strike on Wednesday over job cuts at Fairfax Media.br On Wednesday morning, the company sent an email to staff members saying it would cut 125 full-time positions at The Sydney Morning Heraldbr and The Age in Melbourne, with cuts also expected at The Australian Financial Review.br It’s death by a thousand cuts." He added, "We find it really frustratingbr that after years and years of cuts, still the organization hasn’t been able to come up with a solution which doesn’t require cutting the very thing that we do, which is producing good-quality journalism." An earlier version of this article incorrectly listed one Fairfax newspaper among those whose workers went on strike.br In his email to staff members on Wednesday, Sean Aylmer, the editorial director at Fairfax Media, saidbr that all editorial sections could be affected but that some jobs would be hit especially hard.br Bachelard said that The history of these strikes —br and we’ve done a number over the years as the cuts have progressively gotten worse — is that management is still able to put out a newspaper,br Andrew Hornery, a senior journalist who has worked for The Sydney Morning Herald for 22 yearsbr and writes the Private Sydney column, stood outside his newsroom with co-workers and said: "It’s a great shame what’s happening.