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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters tops Australian box office

SCA launches new industry website

Adshel rebrands 7

Bikers slam re-run of TAC motorcycle safety ad as showing ‘reckless disregard for riders’ 40

Linnell to The Australian’s journos: I’ll get to your job applications soon 9

PR Council to set out vision for future of public relations at CommsCon 4

New caravan magazine Time to Roam Australia launches in print and online 16

Second Gina Rinehart mini-series in development 1

Michael Christian back on air on Today Network 14

Grattan promises to bridge academia and journalism 1

TV ratings kicks off with Seven taking the night 8

Kate Ritchie to make guest return to Home And Away 1

Cricket Australia PR manager Rebecca Appleton moves on 4

Guardian hires Fairfax Canberra duo 7

Magazine body relaunches with focus on ‘lust’, ‘want’ and ‘desire’ 1

West End Draught tries to redraw the Victoria-South Australia border 2

Sphere Agency’s Cup of Nations anthem to be performed to estimated TV audience of 700m

Church of Scientology ‘flattered’ by approaches from Australian PR and marketing firms 19

Melbourne scientists acquire Cosmos Magazine 1

Volvo ends ties with agency Sapient Nitro, appoints Arnold Furnace 10

Melbourne’s radio revenue again ahead of Sydney but overall down

Negative noise has side effect of fuelling public interest, says Cricket Australia marketing boss 12

Social media news sharing traffic halves in January 1

Kate McClymont to keynote Press Freedom dinner 5

Seven well ahead for the week with official ratings to kick off on Sunday 2

Mark Fairhurst moves to Homemaker Media

Ten’s Julian Assange telemovie to receive theatrical release 1

Former PRIA boss Bisset joins broadcasting body

Dumb Ways to Die viral ‘leads to 20% drop in dumb behaviour at Melbourne train stations’ 19

Jim Telfer ‘Everest’ speech parody video urges Brits and Irish to visit Australia for Lions tour 5

See-Saw Films acquires true story of Indian-Australian Saroo Brierley 1

Google launches ‘enhanced campaigns’ for Adwords 6

ABC gets $10m boost to budget 10

TV has happiest media workforce while newspaper staff are least happy 5

Cricket broadcast rights could go cheap 2

Church of Scientology plans publicity drive to quash ‘misconceptions’ about being secretive, controlling and believing in alien ancestry 44

Big Bash audiences take a hit 4

Former CNN host Anjali Rao to front Dateline

Coles uses social media to push milk pricing message 11

Sapphire’s Wayne Blair to direct Jungleboys sketch show 3

SBS teams up with Nick Cave to promote its new film timeslot 3

Australians love Dick 3

The Palace’s Anthony Maras to direct one of the most coveted Hollywood scripts of 2012

BRW unveils new app, website and magazine redesign 5

Paramount Pictures publicist Brooke Wilkins launches agency 9

Qantas sculpts plane out of sand to mark return to Gold Coast

Seven wins the night thanks to MKR

Whybin\TBWA NZ management shake-up as CEO David Walden and creative chief Andy Blood depart

Screen Australia adds another round to Short Film Completion Fund

The Icon Group appoints Paul Cooke

Screentime acquires biography of Gina Rinehart 3

Lawrence Johnston’s film Night gets US theatrical release five years on

WiTH Collective restructures management team 1

Julius Avery’s Son of a Gun starring Ewan McGregor to shoot in late February

Melissa Madden named as BBC Worldwide’s new marketing director 3

Seven again dominates over Masterchef: The Professionals and The Block: All Stars 2

David Michod begins shooting The Rover and announces support cast 8

Peters relaunches the KISS Thunderbolt 6

DDB New Zealand creates over-sized Monopoly game for Maccas

M&C Saatchi Australia appoints Ogilvy UK boss Jaimes Leggett as CEO 5

Sandy Roberts: I’m staying with Seven 3

Former News Limited exec Sue Klose joins Venture Consulting to develop digital practice 1

PR agencies boost Canberra presence ahead of poll

Unilever replaces one marketing director with two 2

Sami Lukis and Yumi Stynes in Google Hangout with Mumbrella 7

Beaurepaires postpones $10m media review 25

Ad delivery service eBUS sells to IMD

Hot spot: BMF creatives on the making of Lambnesia

Post-production house boss: We’re going to stop chasing advertising work at any cost 10

Mumbrella Digital School comes to Melbourne – and launches next Sydney course 1

MKR sees off The Block debut and mashes MasterChef 4

Cheil hires Peter Wilson from Ideaworks as head of retail, wins non-Samsung projects 1

Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Linings Playbook and Flight can’t beat Django Unchained at box office 2

Headspace finally appoints an ad agency – five months after DraftFCB Melbourne closure 1

CUB marketing boss Andy Gibson resigns 12

Today Tonight saved 29

BCM uses Twitter’s Vine in Sunny The Egg campaign 4

Elementary for Ten as Sherlock Holmes delivers 6

Redundancies at News Limited as publisher moves away from ‘sub hubs’ 4

Luxury fashion mags 10 and 10 Men launches in Australia 4

Daily Telegraph raises cover price to $1.20

Fairfax launches campaign for newly-acquired AFL fantasy website Ultimate Footy

Michelle Grattan resigns from The Age 5

VFX artist’s message to adland: You treat us like scum, you rob clients and you’re obsolete 116

Banjo hires Kevin Mackay from McCann’s Olympics pitch-winning team as first digital director 5

Dan Ilic: We pretended to be outraged over Dick Smith ad ban 10

Rudd and Gillard’s leadership battle set to be turned into TV drama by Beyond 1

Mitsubishi Motors calls advertising review 5