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Date(s)
- 1977-1993 (Creation)
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3 files
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Archival history
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Scope and content
Found loose among other board papers.
Includes memoranda/notes from: Donald Trelford; Douglass Cater; John Cole; John Cornwell; Pat Ferguson; John Silverlight; Brian Nicholson; Jennie Beck; Nick Morrell; Stephen Pritchard; Jeremy Hunt; Alan Johnstone; Karen White; Brian Blelloch; Paul Bridges; Jess Watts; John Nuttall-Smith; Adam Raphael.
Subjects covered include: Aspen meeting 1978; autumn campaign 1988; strategy; perceptions of The Observer and its readers; production; sales; budgetry matters; salary reviews; tabloid research; management committee matters.
Also includes: lists of board lunch guests; pages from report on Mohamed Fayed; marketing plan from January 1988; paper on The Observer brand; 'A business plan for The Observer' meeting agendas, 15 December 1988 and 5 January 1989; forward planning meeting minutes and agendas, 12 January 1989; memorandum on editorial investment by Adrian Hamilton; note on editorial budget meeting, 3 April; list of retained contributors and staff, 1989; advertising ratio, February 1990; magazine schedule, May 1990; ABC figures, 1990 and January 1991; circulation report, February 1991; contributions summary, March 1992; management committee agenda papers, 28 October 1992; reader panel papers, 21 and 28 February 1993; circualtion report, 16 May 1993; letter from various members of staff disagreeing with editor's decision to publish Tiny Rowland's story; miscellaneous undated budgetry and other papers.
A small section of this file concerning staff salaries remains closed.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
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Chronological
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Staff salary records closed until review in 2025
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright: Guardian News & Media
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Access Status
Open(part)
Closed until
01/01/2025
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- Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Fayed; Mohamed Abdel Moneim (1929-2023); businessman (Subject)
- Morrell; Nicholas J; chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Pritchard; Stephen; journalist (Subject)
- Hunt; Jeremy; journalist and managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Cater; Douglass (1923-1995); writer and educator (Subject)
- Cole; John Morrison (c1928-2013); journalist (Subject)
- Nicholson; Brian Thomas Graves (1930-); journalist and managing director of the Observer (Subject)
- Nuttall-Smith; John; Observer employee (Subject)
- Raphael; Adam Eliot Geoffrey (1938-); journalist (Subject)
- Rowland; Roland Walter (1917-1998); businessman (Subject)
- Cornwell; John (1940-); Director of Observer Foreign News Service (Subject)
- Ferguson; Patrick; journalist (Subject)
- Silverlight; John (1919-1995); journalist (Subject)
- Johnstone; Alan; journalist (Subject)
- White; Karen; accountant (Subject)
- Watts; Jess G; Observer employee (Subject)
- Hamilton; Adrian; journalist (Subject)