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Register recording for each month the regional breakdown of the average net sale of the Guardian.

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited, Circulation department

Register recording for each month the regional breakdown of the average net sale of the Guardian.

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited, Circulation department

Paper [with hand written annotations possibly by Ian Katz, internet editor] outlining draft descriptions of the ten key pages that would make up the network of Guardian websites that were later to become Guardian Unlimited. Includes descriptions of network home, news home, film home, work home, football home, news story, Guardian eye and columnist front. The author of the document is unknown.

Also includes a hand-drawn diagram [possibly by Ian katz] showing how the various parts of the network would be connected together, 1997.*

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Ian katz

2 x copies of the Guardian, dated 12th May 1987. These two copies were the last printed using hot metal printing techniques. When the Guardian stopped printing the paper using lead type, the printers held a mock funeral using a miniature coffin (in which the final two papers printed were "interred") to mark the end of an era.
Production place: London, UK
Production note: Printed during the "funeral" of hot metal printing
Materials: Paper
Colour: black; yellow (faded white)
Condition: Fair
Dimensions: 60mm x 40mm
Completeness: Complete
Inscription: Dated Tuesday May 12 1987

Creator: Guardian printers

File containing material relating to Guardian North, a northern edition of the paper which launched on 18 September 2000.

Contains reports, memorandum and correspondence relating to: development ideas; press coverage; board updates (covering proposal, rationale, sales opportunities and resource implications); proposed spatial distribution of different editions of the Guardian; partner support (2000); lists of articles that either did, or did not appear in Guardian North (2001); Guardian North debate on the regionalisation of northern cities (2001); audience research; press test (2000); publicity and launch (2000); potential collaboration with BBC Radio 4's 'The Message' series (2000); reader feedback; staffing arrangements; communication arrangements; Nick Davies' coverage of Leeds; circulation figures and the Focus on Leeds series.

The file also includes:
A presentation titled 'NRS October 1994 - March 1995: Demographics, topics of interest % duplication tables. Regional maps and regional readership tables;'
A draft business plan for Guardian North (May 2000);
Publicity leaflets detailing northern staff (nd).

Key correspondents include Chris Elliot (Managing editor), Alan Rusbridger (Editor) and Harriet Sherwood (Home news editor)

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

File containing material predominantly relating to the development of the Guardian's northern/Manchester office, including Guardian North, a northern edition of the paper first printed in September 2000.

Contains reports, memorandum and correspondence relating to: the Don McPhee exhibition 'The view from Manchester' at Manchester Art Gallery (2005); Guardian social events; Newsdesk podcast (2006); the Northerner email newsletter; northern/Manchester office developments including Guardian North (2000); office space planning (2004, 2006); The Hugo Young lecture at the University of Sheffield (2005); the GNM Archive/Newsroom; new GMG printing presses and early edition of the Manchester Evening News (2004); Metro free paper; Guardian North sales figures [2000s], the northern office's relationship with University of Sheffield Department of Journalism studies and northern/Manchester office staffing.

The file also includes:
Publicity leaflets detailing northern staff (nd);
A photograph of Martin Wainwright at the 'The State We're In' lecture at Waterstones (1995).

Key correspondents include Alan Rusbridger (Editor).

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Promotional film, with sound, for the Guardian featuring interviews with members of staff discussing the paper's editorial approach with particular emphasis on the Guardian's unique ownership.

The recording features a montage of edited interviews with Guardian staff members Gary Younge, Hugo Young, Ian Mayes and Katharine Viner.

Topics covered include: the impact of the Scott Trust ownership on the newspaper's freedom; the reader's editor and the lighthearted elements of the newspaper's coverage

Duration: 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Starts at 00.05 seconds.

The montage is followed by the full unedited interviews with Younge, Young, Mayes and Viner. Duration 30 minutes and 45 seconds. The film starts at 2.35 on the mp4 file.

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited

Creator: DS/UK/122

Two Guardian Outlook dummies, 1 February and 15 February 1992 and one Guardian Finance dummy, nd, [c1991].

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)