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Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, I wish to receive the following information from your authority:
The name, frequency and distribution/circulation of your council newspaper (by council newspaper I mean the most frequently published newspaper or magazine intended for mass distribution covering more than one topic):
Bassetlaw News
How much it cost to produce and distribute said newspaper in the last full financial year, and how much was budgeted from council resources in the financial year 2009/2010
To be advised as soon as possible
How much of that cost is offset by advertising
To be advised as soon as possible
How much of that advertising, if any, comes from external sources (ie not from your authority's budgets)?
To be advised as soon as possible
Which other public sector partners pay to run advertising in your newspaper, eg PCTs?
North Notts College, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bassetlaw Primary Care Trust, Bassetlaw, Newark& Sherwood Community Safety Partnership, Bassetlaw Local Strategic Partnership, A1 Housing
Whether recruitment advertising forms part of the advertising in your newspaper?
No
A copy of an editorial policy guide, if one exists, which governs the material which is placed in the newspaper, and how it is decided
There is no written editorial policy. Content agenda is driven by the Communications Team, informed by current projects, events, activities and media interest. This is approved by members before production commences and is subjected to editorial panel approval at preprint stage
A copy of an advertising policy guide, if one exists, which governs what sort of advertising is suitable
Attached
The number of people employed to put your newspaper/newsletter together, including total cost and staff organisation chart
One communications officer works on this as part of their job, working with an externally contracted part-time copywriter and an externally contracted layout/design company.
Cost to be advised as soon as possible
Organisation chart:
Full Communications team
Some parts of this request may be easier to answer than others, and should this prove to be the case I would ask that you release available data as soon as possible rather than hold up the entire request.
I would prefer to receive this information electronically. If the decision is made to withhold some of this data using exemptions in Act, please inform me of that fact and cite the exemptions used.
If you need any clarification then please contact me at the email. Under your section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance I would
expect you to contact me if you find this request unmanageable in
any way.
I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have
received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you in
the near future.
Yours faithfully,
L Barnett
Head: Community engagement and performance
Communications Officer
External part-time copywriter
Design/layout/
production company
Communications Coordinator
Web Officer