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Overview
Lobbying Costs
9,999€
Financial year: Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Guardian Media Group (GMG)
EU Transparency Register
454141617464-43 First registered on 22 May 2015
Goals / Remit
Guardian Media Group (GMG) is one of the UK’s leading commercial media organisations. Wholly owned by The Scott Trust Ltd, which exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity, GMG is one of the few British-owned newspaper companies and is one of Britain's most successful global digital businesses, with operations in the USA and Australia and a rapidly growing audience around the world.
GMG’s core business is Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of theguardian.com and the Guardian and Observer newspapers. As well as being a leading national quality newspaper, the Guardian and The Observer have championed a highly distinctive, open approach to publishing on the web and have sought global audience growth.
In 2014, the Guardian was named newspaper and website of the year at the Society of Editors UK Press Awards and is the most trusted news source in the UK (Ofcom digital media report, 2014). In May 2015 it won Website of the Year, Editorial Campaign of the Year, App of the Year and Product Team of the Year at the British Media Awards. Its journalistic excellence was also recognised when it became the first news organisation of non-US origin to receive the Pulitzer Prize for its investigation into NSA surveillance. The Guardian is also known for its globally acclaimed investigation into phone hacking, the launch of its groundbreaking digital-first strategy in 2011 and its trailblazing partnership with WikiLeaks in 2010.
In 2011, GMG launched its ‘digital first’ business strategy, with the aim of transforming itself into a world-leading converged-media company. theguardian.com since has grown to become the world’s second largest quality English-language newspaper website in the world, with over 120 million unique browsers each month. Since launching its US and Australia digital editions in 2011 and 2013 respectively, traffic from outside of the UK now represents two-thirds of the Guardian's total digital audience. The Guardian now attracts over 30 million readers in the US, and - two years after opening its Sydney office - commands a 21% share of the Australian news market, as the country’s 4th most popular newspaper site brand. Around 25% of the Guardian's traffic now comes from continental European countries.Main EU files targeted
- Securing a strong media plurality framework that enables independent news publishers such as the Guardian to thrive
- To ensure that the digital economy is structured in a way which enables digital news publishers to build sustainable business models, including receiving fair reward for the investment they make in high quality journalistic content
- To maintain the ability of our journalists to write and research investigative stories that shine light on the practices of individuals, companies and the state
- To maintain freedom of expression for all individuals across Europe and the world
- To ensure that states which practice surveillance on journalists, citizens and civil society more broadly are held accountable to the people who elect them
- To contribute to the Commission's work around the creation of a Digital Single Market, and its accompanying work on the role of digital intermediaries in the new economy
- To look at how media regulation - including press regulation - needs to evolve in a digital environment, specifically with a view to feeding in to the upcoming revisions to the AVMS DirectiveAddress
Head Office
90 York Way
London
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Matt Rogerson (Head of Public Policy)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Richard Kerr (Chief Financial Officer)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
9,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
European Publishers' Council
News Media EuropeCommunication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
3 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 25 Jan 2016 Location Brussels Subject Copyright Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet member)
- Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Jan 2016 Location Brussels Subject Copyright DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 20 May 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet member)