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Masterchef and Formula One give Ten its first competitive night of the ratings year 2

New York cabbie and Aussie bloke hail Maccas’ Tastes of America range 11

Elle appoints The Australian’s Damien Woolnough as deputy editor

Ex-DDB creatives Stefanie Digianvincenzo and Crystal Fong behind copywriting collective 4

Four Corners report on people smuggling wins top honours at Melbourne journalism awards

Guardian TV editor Vicky Frost and sales exec Rebecca Turner join Australian launch team

Raymond A Ram stars in new ad for RAMS 1

CFMEU to launch video news app in bid to circumvent media 9

RSPCA Victoria attacks ‘legalised cruelty’ of duck shooting 44

iPad app Wilderquest wins top honours at AIMIA Awards 2

Chaser’s Checkout targets Apple 16

Surf snapper Tan in road trip doco for Land Rover 11

News Limited to close The Punch 18

Naked wins CommsCon Grand Prix for ‘Get Simon off the loo’ campaign 6

Meat Free Week asks Aussies to go veggie 7

Ogilvy PR hires ex-Westpac corporate affairs chief David Bell

Nine wins in tight Thursday ratings battle 1

MCM Media hires Brett Nossiter as content director as Luke Wallis departs after ten years 3

Ticketek says no to cheap friends 8

Bauer Media publisher Robyn Foyster resigns

Campaign aims to get top LinkedIn users on stage with Richard Branson 1

Agencies both claim win for fitness networks 1

Ten hits out at media reform proposals, ‘It is now obvious to everyone that SCA plans to merge with Nine’ 8

Omnicom set to launch new global media agency brand 2

Phil Phelan is Sapient Nitro’s national strategy director 4

Legal firm behind anti-TAC motorcyclist activist campaign hires TAC’s media buying group

Race relations, politics and pop culture focus for new SBS show Legally Brown

Ten digital chief calls for industry unity on catch-up TV 2

Ex-Vogue editor: agencies are wringing the sponge dry 22

Former Advertising Federation of Australia boss Bruce Cormack dies

My Kitchen Rules rates 1.8m, The Block with 1.2m 11

Groupon warned by ACMA for emailing deals without consent 1

Twitter optimistic about Australian growth ahead of Federal poll 1

SmoothFM shuffles the deck-board despite ratings gains 4

Crean announces new funding to bring in international films 3

Bankmecu commissions Australia’s first commercial reverse graffiti project 11

Quickflix boss: We’re through the funding crisis and ready to grow 18

Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby to open Cannes film fesitival 1

First CommsCon conference sells out

TMS wins Kennards Self Storage 1

Ten runs fourth again behind ABC1 10

OPSM sees a world where things are getting better 4

One Green Bean wins Woolworths PR account 1

The Encore Interview with Jack Matthews – CEO of Fairfax Metro Media 4

Blinder flops at box office 10

Conroy proposes media reforms: the experts respond 4

Graeme Wills takes stake in Razor Group as creative sister agency Us rebrands as Joy 3

Domino’s CEO to defend derided ‘game changing’ campaign on Facebook 6

Circus Hangout: Charles Firth, Russ Mitchinson and Farrah Bostic

Paint store network relaunches after two years development 1

Bobby Farrelly directs new Jeep ad 2

The PM’s favourite blogger and the lingering death of AVE on the agenda at CommsCon 3

BMF picks up Central retail brief

Mediacom heads Berocca Twist ‘N’ Go campaign

Stellar Concepts latest PR agency to appoint creative director 3

Fiat ad banned for over sexualisation and portraying unsafe driving 16

SBS One runs seventh while Ten again wallows at fourth

Host ends 13 years without a creative department with double ECD appointment 3

Fairfax creates united Commercial Real Estate brand 1

The Music Network to stop printing: ‘Print is dead’ 11

Business Spectator redesigns website and launches China spinoff 1

Dad’s never ending wallet focus of DDB NZ ad for Westpac

Today Network duo in 4.15am ambush prank on female presenter 56

Creative agencies vie for David Jones account 1

Sydney Dance Company campaigns to get funding for teen dancer

Mumbrella Question Time to wrap up CommsCon on Thursday

Youth publisher launches mobile-first title Junkee.com 2

The Block: All Stars tops the night 1

Campaign Brief launches US and UK sites

Hamish and Andy head to head in Logies

Ten’s share for the week falls to 10.3 per cent 4

Publishers in push for premium advertising network

‘Eye rolling’ reference to local call centre is not racist, rules ad watchdog 7

Domino’s gets panned for less-than-game-changing ‘game changer’ announcement 32

Nine ditches Parade’s End 10

Fairfax’s week of relaunches continues with Sun-Herald and AFR revealing new looks 4

At least five vie for ABC television job 3

FitzSimons claims he didn’t know his column was a beer ad 2

Schwartz: more female voices needed in business news 3

Feathers marketing boss: ‘fashion brands are wrong to only hire PR people and not marketers’ 3

Fairfax Media making a TV version of the Australian Financial Review to be broadcast on Nine 9

Aussie marketers ‘fail at multi-screening’ 2

Drug addiction tackled with petition campaign 2

Bundaberg to release special flood relief batch of rum 5

MOVE sees nine per cent boost in outdoor audience

Melbourne International Comedy Festival launches ad about not being funny 12

Mortgage Choice promotes ‘Know the feeling’ message 2

South Australia’s new ‘origami Pope hat’ logo prompts online competition to find a better one 25