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Wonderland wins for Ten while Gruen performs for ABC 11

ABC hires SMH’s Linton Besser as part of expansion of reporting team

McDonald’s launches Big Mac Chant Challenge 12

Greenpeace continues anti-Coke campaign with parody website

Mel Doyle third in 4pm timeslot, beaten by Ten’s Totally Wild 2

Deirdre Brennan returns to ABC as controller of children’s TV 7

Elysium tops Aussie box office on its opening weekend 1

Coles uses Status Quo to promote price freeze 21

Brand video content company Boom expands into content creation

Festival of Branded Content and Entertainment: Program revealed

Radio ratings: Perth – Dead heat for 96FM and Mix 94.5

Movie night callout: Jobs

Radio Ratings: Adelaide – Bob Francis bows out with big audience increase

Radio Ratings: Brisbane – 97.3FM regains ratings crown 2

Richard Bradley appointed ECD of Jack Morton as John Collingwood-Smith moves aside 3

Pollies rock on ahead of federal election 4

Radio ratings – Melbourne: Three-way battle for top FM breakfast show 3

Radio ratings – Sydney: Kyle & Jackie O remain on top in FM, but gap closes 14

Melissa Doyle’s Seven News at 4 debut fails to beat Nine’s Afternoon News 9

Sane launches campaign to tackle media stigma over reporting of mental illness

Ben and Jerry’s to launch campaign in support of gay marriage 24

Get Up! launches Game of Thrones ad to explain Senate rules 7

Rowan Dean: I turned down Labor campaign job 6

UM leads the pack in Media Federation Awards chase 2

New campaign for The Australian: ‘Search | Know | More’ 11

Publishers’ new readership metric shows big growth in audiences compared to old measure 16

Foxtel signs up for The House Of Hancock 5

Australia’s Got Talent narrows gap on The X Factor

Rhonda returns for AAMI 29

David Mott, the man who put Masterchef on Ten ‘set for Nine Perth gig’

Media buyers reserve judgment on readership metric EMMA as Roy Morgan bosses question independence 9

Peter Meakin to join Channel Ten 7

Bauer culls 10 per cent of ad team and sells two titles 6

Fairfax admits to paywall pop-up flaw with ads 10

Government ad spend rose to record high in July 3

Initiative wins RAC WA account 1

Upper Middle Bogan delivers strongly for ABC1 7

Leslie Nassar to depart Razorfish with talk of launching his own agency 3

Penny Dixon appointed MD of Iris Sydney 1

ABCs: Newspapers continue print decline 6

ABCs: Weekly magazines see double digit declines 4

ABCs: Cleo and Cosmo struggle but will not merge 11

Fox Sport airs Red Bull funded series Focus

Toyota continues celebrating middle age with new Hip To Be Square Camry ad 4

Mumbrella360 recap: Face of the brand – Aussie John, Lorna Jane Clarkson, Janine Allis and Ruslan Kogan 1

Malibu cruises through a world of beige in new Holden ad 3

Offspring finale rates well for Ten as Gruen makes a strong return 2

Rudd impersonator fronts eyewear retailer’s TV campaign attacking foreign aid 29

Special K opens social media shop where customers pay by posting on social media 13

REA Group and carsales.com.au deliver big growth as classified ads continue to shift online

News Corp boss Julian Clarke to join newspaper CEOs panel 1

99designs launches fixed price spin-off Swiftly 23

Grant Rutherford’s Great Shake-Up goes to air 1

SCA sees fall in profits and revenues 5

STW reports increased revenues and profits despite ‘new normal’ of sluggish economy 3

Great Australian Bake Off fades as X Factor dominates Tuesday ratings 4

Fairfax sells InvestSmart for $7m, after buying it for $12m 5

News Corp to scale printing operations back in Gold Coast

Tropfest lost entries after system crash

Sharron Meissner passes away 4

Harold Mitchell becomes chairman of Free TV 1

Razor Media appoints Ilona Evans head of digital

Sarah Musgrave becomes head of strategy for Mindshare 1

Sunrise wins first day of post-Mel ratings battle 2

Strong Monday for X Factor; good evening for The Project; slow night for Big Brother eviction 2

Now You See Me tops Aussie box office on opening weekend 1

Myer requires ‘bespoke agency’ on site as part of pitch 26

Naked co-founder John Harlow passes away 5

Introducing the boy who dreams of working at McDonald’s 18

Devondale pays tribute to the Morning Strangers 2

Ten rains rose petals in The Bachelor first look 10

Dove launches new ‘unstoppable’ positive self esteem ad targeting girls

Origin Energy launches campaign to ‘take mystery out of energy’

Lavender off the Westpac brand but remains on wider roster 1

Online display and classifieds ‘now worth $1.6bn’

Karalee Evans to lead social media at DDB Sydney 6

The X Factor sees off Australia’s Got Talent 11

Half a million viewers tune in to say goodbye to Sunrise’s Mel Doyle 4

Newcastle Herald’s Joanne McCarthy recognised for Catholic campaign at Kennedy Awards 8

News Corp Australia Kim Williams departs, Julian Clarke named as replacement 46

Budget Direct takes ‘boojay boojay’ out of this world 37

Ryobi relay in new BMF ad 2

Wynns wine campaign goes into prehistory

Anita Jacoby joins ACMA

Who is Julian Clarke? 6

Big Brother rates 825,000 in slow Thursday night’s TV

Weber Shandwick buys boutique PR agency Public City 4

Bauer’s Kelly Healy joins Ten as new sales boss Barrett begins restructure 3