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Media centre

Our policy for dealing with the media

Our Corporate Communications Team is the first port of call for media enquiries.

This Media Centre aims to help you by giving you information to help you find out more about Portsmouth and the council's work in particular.

We will either respond to your enquiry direct or arrange interviews with councillors and officers for you.

Our media policy is to be:

  • open
  • honest
  • transparent
  • proactive
  • helpful to the media in facilitating photographic opportunities, interviews and other reasonable requests

Our communications team will:

  • respond as quickly and effectively as possible to your enquiry
  • promote our brand and reputation
  • abide by data protection and other laws concerning the rights of our residents and our staff as employees
  • respect the confidential nature of information which is retained by the council on individual cases or which is commercially sensitive

You can call us on 023 9283 4043 or click the 'about us' link below for our individual phone numbers and email addresses. The office is open from 8.30am to 5.30pm Monday-Thursday and 8.30am to 4.30pm on Fridays.

Our postal address is:
Corporate Communications, Portsmouth City Council
3rd Floor, Civic Offices
Guildhall Square
Portsmouth
PO1 2AL

For any Freedom of Information enquiries, please email our FOI team direct at FoI@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.

Associated documents:

Media attachment image  Corporate Communications Strategy 2008 - 2009  (0.20 MB)

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