Legal Advice & Lobbying
The
Newspaper Society is the voice of the regional and local press. It
pursues its members’ interests in Whitehall, Westminster and
Brussels on the very wide range of issues that concern the
newspaper industry.
The NS’s PERA department gathers the Society's government and
legal affairs, advertising control,
agency
recognition, employment affairs and training activities
together under one umbrella.
It offers core membership services, including information
provision, representation and lobbying, as well as unique
individual legal advice, consultancy and
training services.
The Political, Editorial and Regulatory Affairs
Committee oversee the lobbying work of the
Society on UK and EU legislative initiatives of importance to the
newspaper industry.
The NS
employment affairs team
lobby to represent members' views on proposed employment
legislation. It lobbies directly to government or
through its membership of the specialist employment committee at
the CBI
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For more information on any of the PERA services, please contact
the PERA department on 020 7632 7463 or e-mail sue_oake@newspapersoc.org.uk