Dear Rother District Council,

Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, I wish to
receive the following information from your authority:

1. 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)

2. 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

3. How much of that cost is offset by advertising

4. How much of that advertising, if any, comes from external
sources (ie not from your authority's budgets)?

5. Which other public sector partners pay to run advertising in
your newspaper, eg PCTs?

6. Whether recruitment advertising forms part of the advertising in
your newspaper?

7. 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

8. A copy of an advertising policy guide, if one exists, which
governs what sort of advertising is suitable.

9. The number of people employed to put your newspaper/newsletter
together, including total cost and staff organisation chart

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

I am now out of the office. I hope to be back Thursday 7 January 2010. Please consider whether my colleagues Jane Guiver (Property), Andy Eaton (Litigation), Karen Newton (Planning), Tina Holman (Estates) or Lynda Crawford (FOI) could help in my absence, but only from 4 January.

Dear Mr Barnett

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

Thank you for your request received on 04 January 2010 requesting
information about Council newspaper. We are processing your request in
conjunction with the Communications Division and hope to be able to
respond to you within 4 weeks.

Lynda Crawford
Admin Assistant

Corporate Services
Rother District Council
Town Hall
Bexhill-on-Sea
East Sussex TN39 3JX

T: 01424 787835
F: 01424 787879
E: [1][email address]
W: [2]www.rother.gov.uk

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Please find below information relating to your FOI request on council
newspaper / magazines for Rother District Council.

Rother District Council's magazine is called `Rother Views' and published
quarterly to 45,000 households.

The magazine is new and its first two editions last year cost £8285
each.  It had no budget set from resources for 2009/10 due to the recent
creation of the communications team.

The magazine does not carry any advertising and has no editorial policy
guide.

No staff are employed by the council with the sole task of putting the
magazine together, rather it is one of many tasks carried out by our
communications team in their day-to-day work.

I hope this answers your questions.

You may use our internal complaints procedure if you are dissatisfied. 
If you are still dissatisfied you may appeal to the Information
Commissioner.  Please contact Anne Bruin, Team Leader, Customer Services,
if you wish to complain.

Regards,

Daniel Collins

Senior Communications Officer

Rother District Council

01424 787705

[email address]

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