FOI release

Expenditure on news aggregation services from 2011 to 2014

Published 7 July 2014

News aggregation services

Year 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014
Precise/Durrants £173,687.48 £84,782.94 £79,496.36
Press Association £32,220 £28,702.24 £32,642.62
MMU £48,000 £109,200 £2,400
TNS/Wordsworth/Gorkana £413 £5,514 £0
TOTAL £254,320.48 £228,199,18 £114,538.98
  • includes costs for 2012-13 and 2013-2014 subscription

Precise – Newspaper cuttings service.

Durrants (Now Gorkana) – Newspaper cuttings service.

Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) – Cabinet Office central media monitoring for Government providing broadcast summaries throughout the day and morning coverage of newspapers. They also provide recordings of broadcast coverage and transcripts of interviews.

TNS and Wordsworth – media monitoring service that provides transcripts of broadcast interviews.

Gorkana – media database of titles and journalists