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- 1981-1993 (Creation)
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1 file
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Includes correspondence from and concerning Morrell.
Other correspondents include: Donald Trelford, Roger Harrison, Brian Nicholson, Trevor Grove, Jeremy Hunt, John Nuttal-Smith
Subjects covered include: mostly advertising matters including new advertisers, aopproval, placing, size and selection of advertisements in each issue, advertorials on various topics including photography, home technology and Mexico, proposals for recruitment advertising, classified gourmet category and new theme advertising, financial statistics, and figures including departmental revenue from advertising, possibility of joint sales with the Guardian on Chinese issue, availability of the Observer abroad (Barbados, Saudi Arabia), Spycatcher mid-week edition, from 1988 increasingly correspondence on budget issues, staffing, expenses, expenditure, production delays and problems, 7-page dummy and proposed tabloid redesign, merging of Colour Magazine with Monthlys, membership/relations with NPA
Also includes: Minutes of a 'Time Out' Meeting on 25th May 1988, The Independent reports and accounts 1987, paper on 'Channel 3 Television Licence Application'
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford
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Very few material concerning financial and staffing matters closed
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Copyright: Mainly Guardian News & Media
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- Trelford; Donald Gilchrist (1937-2023); journalist, broadcaster, and editor of The Observer (Subject)
- Nicholson; Brian Thomas Graves (1930-); journalist and managing director of the Observer (Subject)
- Harrison; Desmond Roger Wingate (1933-); managing director and chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Grove; Trevor Charles (1945-); journalist (Subject)
- Morrell; Nicholas J; chief executive of The Observer (Subject)
- Hunt; Jeremy; journalist and managing editor of the Observer (Subject)
- Nuttall-Smith; John; Observer employee (Subject)