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- 1978-1979 (Creation)
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1 file
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Contains correspondence relating to the preparation of the Observer budgets for 1979 and 1980. Includes consolidated and detailed budget summaries for 1979; a set of figures showing staff and contributors lineage costs for April - September 1978; information about individual staff salaries and memorandums relating to: capital expenditure, the costs of extra pagination, the finalised 1979 budget, actual 1979 spending against the budget and plans to put William Millinship in charge of the Magazine budget for 1980.
Primary correspondents include Roger Harrison, William Millinship, Ron Holmes, Alan J Snow, KP Obank and Donald Trelford.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison
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Records identifying individuals' salaries are closed in accordance with DPA.
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- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Millinship; William Henry George (1929-2010); journalist and managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Holmes; Ronald; financial director of the Observer (Subject)
- Obank; Kenneth Pounds (1915-1991); managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer (Subject)