Newspaper publishers and impeccably unbiased chaps like Andrew Gilligan have been raging on for simply yonks about how council newspapers are ruining it for the print media.
But last week, the following letter , accompanying an in-depth report, went to digital minister Stephen Timms (virtual government?) from Steve Bundred at the Audit Commission. The AC concludes that English local authorities are not wasting or misusing public money through the publication of council-run newspapers. It goes on to debunk claims by publishers that councils are in a position to attract local advertising and states “The money being spent by councils is not unreasonable, though they should always consider whether it provides good value”.
Strangely, the findings have gone largely unreported in the press.
No indication if the Wales Audit Office will be doing similar work – or if there is a spare Assembly committee looking for something to do.
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(CS)
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