Meredith Corporation — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Meredith Corporation
Iowa
28 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2015 · latest filed Jan 27, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$3.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$3.7M
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$0
none reported
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: meredith-corporation.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
17 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
11 filings
$1.8M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
11 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Media (information/publishing)
MIA
8 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
6 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
6 filings
$788K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$251K on those filings
Aerospace
AER
1 filing
$203K on those filings
Computer Industry
CPI
1 filing
$203K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
1 filing
$203K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
112th Congress
Next Generation Television Marketplace Act
4 filingsthrough 2012
S. 2008112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
S. 9112th CongressPolitical Reform and Gridlock Elimination Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1826111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2918111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4053111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4173111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 985111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1763111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 448111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 752111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
