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The new structure was unveiled by Fairfax Media executives at an investor day in Christian Louboutin Boots on Tuesday. Fairfax will operate with five multi-platform businesses -- Australian metro media, Australian regional media, New Zealand media, Agricultural media, and the Jimmy Choo Shoes on Sale Financial Review Group. The Australian Metro Media business brings together Fairfax Media's flagship mastheads The Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne Age, as well as Vibram Five Fingers Bikila NSW and Victorian community newspapers, under one operating unit. It also includes Fairfax Media's online outlets in Perth and Brisbane. There will be two transactional businesses, Trade Me, a Vibram Five Fingers Classic Zealand business, and digital transactions. These two units will be "elevated" to report directly to the chief executive, Fairfax said in a slide presentation. There will be two single platform businesses, radio and printing. "We will operate as a true multi-platform company," Fairfax Media chief executive and managing director Brian McCarthy said. Mr McCarthy said the new organisational structure better positioned the company for change and allowed for the greater sharing of content. A new position - chief executive of Australian Metro Media - will be appointed to run all the publishing and online media businesses in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Perth, Fairfax said. A Metro commercial director will run an integrated sales team, while a new national editor will "oversee an integrated national sections editorial team". Moreover, Fairfax said there would be a new head of classifieds to provide "common leadership" for the publisher's metropolitan classifieds businesses.