❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks details on media monitoring services used by the Premier's departments and related agencies, including the companies involved, monitoring methods, media outlets covered, and recipients of the monitoring results. The Premier provided limited information, citing resource constraints.
AnsweredQoN 1040Legislative Assembly
Asked
22 June 2017
Member
Portfolio
Premier; Minister for Public Sector Management; State Development, Jobs and Trade; Federal-State Relations
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I refer to media monitoring services engaged by the Premier's departments, agencies, boards or publicly owned corporations and ask: (a) What company is engaged to provide the service; (b) Is the service engaged on an ad-hoc (keyword, topic etc.) basis or on continual subscription: (i) If engaged on an ad-hoc basis, what are the keywords or topics which are monitored by the service; (c) What media outlets are monitored; and (d) What officers receive the media monitoring results and on what frequency?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
8 August 2017
Response time
4 days
(a)
Gold Corporation
(a) iSentia
Lotterywest
(a) iSentia
State Development, Jobs and Trade
(a) My Media Intelligence
Public Sector Commission and Salaries and Allowances Tribunal
(a) Nil
Department of Premier and Cabinet
(a) No companies are engaged to provide media monitoring services. The Department has an internal media monitoring service.
(b-d) Words, names, phrases and abbreviations used for media monitoring searches regularly change based on topical issues. To provide information about every agency, department and government-trading enterprise media monitoring contract would require an unreasonable diversion of resources and may incur additional costs, and I am not prepared to allocate the resources required to provide this detailed information. If the Member has a specific request regarding media monitoring I will consider it.
Gold Corporation
(a) iSentia
Lotterywest
(a) iSentia
State Development, Jobs and Trade
(a) My Media Intelligence
Public Sector Commission and Salaries and Allowances Tribunal
(a) Nil
Department of Premier and Cabinet
(a) No companies are engaged to provide media monitoring services. The Department has an internal media monitoring service.
(b-d) Words, names, phrases and abbreviations used for media monitoring searches regularly change based on topical issues. To provide information about every agency, department and government-trading enterprise media monitoring contract would require an unreasonable diversion of resources and may incur additional costs, and I am not prepared to allocate the resources required to provide this detailed information. If the Member has a specific request regarding media monitoring I will consider it.
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