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- 8 January 2002 - 17 December 2002 (Creation)
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498 files (.doc, .dot, .pdf, unknown file type) (52.7 MB)
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Contains press releases and forward planning notices published in 2002. Topics include: the launch of Soulmates, the Newsroom, The Observer Magazine (formerly Life), Observer Food Monthly (OFM), Observer Travel Monthly (OTM), Guardian Films, and Review; exclusives with Stephen Byers, Dame Stella Rimington, Mo Mowlam, Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair, David Blunkett, Roy Keane, Robert Pires, Paul Gascoigne, Alex Ferguson, Mo Mowlam and Gordon Brown; special investigations and serialisations including the deportation of Zimbabwean asylum seekers, Peter Mandelson and passports, Kurt Cobain diaries and cancer waiting times on the NHS; special supplements and publications, including The Season, Big Brother, F1, World Cup specials, The Observer Guide to Normandy; breast cancer supplement, Life magazine celebrity special, Point IT (free traveller language kit) Observer Food Monthly (OFM) and Observer Sport Monthly (OSM) monthly highlights, Bar Guide and Rise; marketing campaigns; Observer price increase; ICM and YouGov polls; Interbrew case; Grad's Facts Survey; CD and book releases; Observer and Edwina Currie defamation case; sponsorship and promotional deals with Channel 4, Odeon, Nissan x Trail, Moet, Stella Artois, Lee Miller exhibition and Gilbert and George exhibition; Mother's first TV advert for the Observer for Observer Sport Monthly and Sex Uncovered issue; events, awards, and exhibitions, including Newsroom exhibits, Student Media Awards, First Book Awards, Children's Book Awards, Party Conferences, Charity Awards, Children's Fiction Prize, Gazza shirt competition, Middle East dialogue/debate, Observer Hodge Photographic Award and exhibition, Tate Warhol exhibition, Edinburgh festivals, CIPD Recruitment Marketing Awards, Travel Awards, Urban Regeneration conference, text poetry competition, etc.; learn.co.uk press releases; staff, contributor and board appointments of Jackie Ashley, Shaun Williams, Joe Klein, Adam Freedman, CIar Byrne, Chris McGreal, Damien McCrystal, Danny Groom, Eddie Fremantle, Lisa Darnell, Andrew Clark, Kevin McCarra, Tony Adams, Tracy McVeigh, Rory Carroll, Vivek Chaudhary, Paul Kelso, Maddy Costa, Dan Chung, Paul Macinnes, Sheila Pulham, David Aaronovitch, Jo Revill, Nicola Jeal, Tracey Emin, and Julian Glover; and the retirement of Alan Pankhurst.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited
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