The Gong Awards - the gong tolls for late payers
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The Gong
- it tolls for late payers

The Gong is awarded to publishers who need a wake-up call on payment.

Below are all the nominations to date. Eventually there may even be an award ceremony - though doubts about whether anyone would show up on time are aiding our procrastination over organising it...

 The nominee
Issue
* Chatelaine
2022_06
* Byline Times
2022_04
* Huffington Post
2021_07
* First Row Films, and possibly others
2020_08
* LADbible
2019_07
* The Pool freezes freelance commissioning
2019_02
* a Trinity Mirror title
2018_10
* The Times
2017_12
* Pomp magazine
2013_06
* Accounts Dept. with no contact number
2013_01
* Evans creditors
2012_07
* South China Morning Post
2012_04
* Solent University
2011_10
* History Today
2010_10
* Football Punk
2010_04
* 4FM
2010_03
* Attitude
2010_01
* River Publishing
2009_07
* NewsBase
2009_05
* Anglomania
2009_05
* Green Parent
2008_10
* My Weekly
2008_04
* Sweet & Maxwell (not the freelances to annoy)
2008_01
* Officer magazine
2007_07
* Time Out
2007_06
* Entertainment Weekly
2007_04
* Ealing Gazette
2007_02
* Platinum Entertainment
2006_11
* Trinity Mirror Group
2006_11
* Elle & Grazia
2006_10
* Profile Pursuit
2006_08
* Sunday Times
2006_07
* Glasgow City Council
2006_04
* Haymarket Publications
2006_02
* Didsbury Magazine
2006_01
* Nursing Standard
2005_06
* BBC Online times out
2005_04
* Heritage Magazine
2005_02
* Front magazine
2005_01
* Press Gazette & EMAP Performance
2004_10
* Daily Record magazine
2004_09
* Q: expenses from 20 months ago
2004_08
* TV production company DoRo: 25 months
2004_04
* Los Angeles Times: £500 owed for over a year
2004_03
* The Business
2004_01
* Sweet & Maxwell and Lexis-Nexis
2003_12
* Fiesta - took three months to come
2003_10
* Rolling Stone: nine months to deliver a kill fee
2003_06
* Westminster Adult Education
2001_05
* River Publishing Ltd
1999_09

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To calculate the interest and compensation on late payments by UK companies, see www.londonfreelance.org/interest.html

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