2014 Annual: the year that was – May

It was another year of continual change in the media and marketing world. Over the next 12 days, Mumbrella’s Miranda Ward provides a month-by-month recap of the major stories and developments that affected the industry.

May was the month of bizarre stunts and the news you never expected to read, for sub-editors everywhere it was a good month.

News Corp packer gyngell watermarked photoThe month kicked off with the bizarre news that James Packer and David Gyngell had brawled in the streets of Bondi. Media outlets entered a bidding war for the photographs taken, with News Corp emerging the victor.

Nando’s Australia was forced to pull down a tactical social media post after using one of the copyrighted images of the brawl without permission.

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