Mumbrella gifts and hospitality – 2012

Mumbrella’s editorial team occasionally receives hospitality or gifts.

In the interests of transparency, our policy is to declare the sources of both. Our policy is to return gifts to the value of more than $100.

In the interest of source confidentiality we do not disclose occasions when we have meals with contacts.

Our 2011 register can be found here.

January:

  • Piccolo of Henkell Troken sparkling wine – channel Eleven first birthday
  • Apple iPod Shuffle – Part of launch invitation, McCann
  • Pure Blonde – six bottles – Liquid Ideas on behalf of CUB
  • Cupcake – Optus 20th anniversary

February:

  • Two oranges, chopsticks, notepad and drinks mats -to celebrate Chinese New year – Moove media
  • 2011 Watervale Riesling and two presentation bottles of vinaigrette – Blinc International
  • Two bottles Brancott Estate wine – Red PR on behalf of Brancott Estate
  • A small pink horse. Well, medium sized. It’s plastic. And kind of hard to describe but quite nice – Salmat Digital
  • A yellow teapot and box of T2 tea – Ten, launch of Breakfast TV show
  • Gift bag from Bonds Birthday Project launch including hoodie, babygrow and underwear
  • Three bottles Hardys sparkling chardonnay pinot noir – Virgin Mobile

March:

  • Bottle Handpicked 2005 Shiraz and bottle Two Eights 2005 Verdelho – Double Edge PR – thanks for speaking at Networx event
  • Packet Kellogg’s All-Bran Fibre toppers – new product
  • Lightbulb encased in plastic (it’s nicer than it sounds). Embarrassingly we can’t remember who sent it in and there’s no brand on it
  • Jim Beam black cherry bourbon – From The Works
  • Three bags of jellybeans – Audit Bureaux of Australia (they’re bean counters, gerrit?)
  • Australian Women’s Weekly shopping bag, cookbook, tea towel, magazine and Maggie Beer verjuice – ACP
  • Mini Maglite torch. KWP Adelaide anniversary
April
  • Three sets of chocolate letters spelling out the word “OGILVY” – Easter gift from Ogilvy. The dark chocolate letters were particularly delicious.
  • Bottle – Teusner The Indepdendent 2010 Shiraz Mataro – thanks for speaking at Publishers Australia Young Minds event
  • Chocolate bars – Adobe to promote event
  • Small chocolate rabbits – Spectrum PR – Easter gift
  • Beerenberg relish and jams – six assorted jars: to mark new Beerenberg marketing campaign
  • Lots of Dairy Milk chocolate – Royce PR/ Cadbury’s
  • A digital radio – thanks for speaking at ABC event. It might have exceed our $100 limit if it worked.
  • A giftbox from Sony containing a candle, chocolate humbugs, a mini bottle of Moet and a Playstation network card.

May

  • Philips digital radio – Southern Cross Austereo – $99.95 (just making the cut).
  • Macarons (or are they macraroons, we can never remember which are which?)  - Responsys/ Fuel Communications
  • Lots of Dairy Milk Marvellous Creations chocolate – Royce PR/ Cadbury’s
  • 1 x 3kg pack of Purina Lucky Dog (minced beef, vegetable and marrowbone flavour) – Saltmine Design Group
  • 1 x 750ml container of Domestos, to mark their new ad. Yes, really.

Paid media contributions

Mumbrella journalists regularly appear as industry commentators on TV and radio. On occasion, there are contributor fees available. Where these take place, the relevant networks are invoiced by Focal Attractions rather than by the journalist individually, in the same way that we invoice our advertisers. The purpose of this is so that a journalist does not have a personal financial interest in continuing to make appearances, so feels free to write about these networks in whatever way they see fit.

Although most are not paid appearances, Mumbrella journalists make regular or occasional  contributions on ABC Radio National, ABC Hobart, ABC Gold Coast, ABC Ballarat, ABC Canberra, Seven’s Sunrise, Morning Show and Today Tonight, Ten’s Breakfast and Nine’s A Curent Affair.