Journalists at Fairfax Media yesterday voted to go on strike for 36 hours over the outsourcing of 66 editorial production jobs to New Zealand.

Print and online staff from The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, The Sunday Age, The Sun Herald, the Newcastle Herald and Wollongong’s Illawarra Mercury have gone on strike.

Fairfax staff walked out at 5.30pm yesterday.

The move came as hundreds of journalists from publishers Fairfax and News Limited met with union officials at stopwork meetings over ongoing concerns about jobs in the industry.

Fairfax plans to move the mostly sub-editing jobs from newspapers in Newcastle and Wollongong to Fairfax Editorial Services in New Zealand.