The document shows potential public notice income for six newspaper publishers based on the number of papers they publish. Trinity Mirror could earn £8,018,530, Northcliffe £5,181,305, and Archant £3,3947,584. Newsquest's potential is £16,345,465, Johnston's is £22,020,117. It discusses making public notices more accessible by publishing them online and in plain language, with email subscriptions and sharing between local media and community sites.

2. Publisher Number of papers Potential public notices income
Trinity Mirror 130 £8,018,530 - ?
Northcliffe 84 £5,181,305 - ?
Archant 64 £3,3947,584 - ?
Newsquest 200 £16,345,465 - ?
Johnston 265 £22,020,117 - ?
Number of papers taken from publisher website

4. - is your local newspaper holding you to account?
- in today’s growing digital media landscape, what
additional value is your local newspaper offering over
newer forms of local media?
- how many of your local reporters would you describe
as being at the heart of your community?

7. “total waste of money”

8. 1 councils should be free to decide where is best to place public notices
• public notices should be written in normal language
2 councils who do publish notices online should offer residents an email
subscription service, allowing users to opt-in to receive public notices
• hyperlocal, neighbourhood websites, as well as traditional local media news
sites, should be encouraged to carry feeds of council notices
3 the Government should look into the possibility of supporting the development of
a central online portal for publishing public notices

10. 1 councils should be free to decide where is best to place public notices
• public notices should be written in normal language
2 councils who do publish notices online should offer residents an email
subscription service, allowing users to opt-in to receive public notices
• hyperlocal, neighbourhood websites, as well as traditional local media news
sites, should be encouraged to carry feeds of council notices
3 the Government should look into the possibility of supporting the development of
a central online portal for publishing public notices

12. 1 councils should be free to decide where is best to place public notices
• more work needs to be done to de-jargon and standardise the content of public
notices
2 councils who do publish notices online should offer users a email subscription
service, allowing uses to opt-in to receive public notices
• hyperlocal, neighbourhood websites, as well as traditional local media news
sites, should be encouraged to carry feeds of council notices
3 the Government should look into the possibility of supporting the development of
a central online portal for publishing public notices

13. Get involved: jonathan.carr-west@lgiu.org.uk