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Australia plummets in press freedom index 3

Gay dating site Manhunt hits Sydney billboards 9

‘The back’ is back for Oral-B 6

Cottee’s Cordial goes back to its roots 8

ABC boss Mark Scott ‘contender for top job at BBC’ 7

Sandilands: I don’t do sorry, aIthough I went too far. But worrying about sponsors isn’t my job 34

Group buying sites draw 100 complaints over conduct 3

Aegis Media relaunches Vizeum brand in Sydney 5

New Idea’s Amy Sinclair to edit Famous 2

Smith’s chips: you know you love ’em 16

News Limited announces sales restructure 4

Ex-Clems Adelaide creatives Greg Knagge and Geoff Robertson launch agency

Tropfest launches 2012 trailer

Nine’s AACTA Awards broadcast to be delayed

John Polson and Robert Connolly among Screen Australia funding recipients 9

Intelligent Investor doubles its money on Photon punt 5

Top 10 finalists announced for Optus One80 Project

GetUp! launches attack ad on Tony Abbott boat people policy 43

Cricket Australia unveils new film to push women’s cricket 5

Jennifer Hawkins is the face of Mount Franklin Lightly Sparkling 18

Australians nominated for Oscars

Aegis recovers from $60m ANZ loss with $53m Holden win 15

Vodafone merges marketing, sales and corp comms, ‘no plans’ for agency shake-up 11

2011 Australian films down in box office on 2010 3

Mariner Boating Holidays launches direct mail campaign 10

Midori appoints Reborn to develop digital strategy 3

News Limited’s Ed Smith tipped to join Foxtel, Nicole Sheffield to join NewsLifeMedia 1

Restructured MTV announces more changes, best-ever ratings 1

Topshop Topman tours Melbourne in London double decker bus 2

Wish You Were Here to be released in April, screens at Sundance

Magdalena Roze and Kathryn Robinson join Ten’s “cheeky” Breakfast line-up 17

SBS corp comms manager Jane McMillan departs 2

Sony invites fans to ‘enter the underworld’ with 3D chalk drawings 3

Domino’s stages street party contest

The Biggest Loser disappoints but The Project fares well for Ten 2

John Burgess and Garnier back Balls of Steel 1

Australian Ethical: we don’t invest in guns, tobacco or pollution 52

ABC commissions Cliff Young telemovie 1

News Limited corporate affairs chief Greg Baxter departs

Ten hires AFR’s Neil Shoebridge as director of corp comms 24

Quickflix expands catalogue to include HBO

Subaru XV ad sees old and new models descend on mobile carwash 14

Ten starts the right side of 1m, but still loses out to tennis 9

HSBC launches summer offensive with the line ‘Let’s Bankercise’ 18

Liz Green to head MCM marketing

PHD wins $60m ANZ account 11

APN buys stake in digital start-up 1

Tassie awards issues call to entries

AdNews sees departure of fourth editor in three years 3

Youtube and Emirates launch Your Film Festival

Sandra Hook ousted as boss of News Limited’s magazine operation 8

Magazines fall furthest in 2011 ad spend study 8

Tennis Australia launches ad to get more people playing tennis 8

News Limited appoints Belinda Hickman-Newton editor in chief of Quest Newspapers

Boating industry chairman says he knew nothing about pro bono pitch after backlash 12

Ro Markson behind PR agency launch: ‘We approach each brief as if there are no rules’ 8

Compare Travel Insurance wins Mumbrella’s Ad of the Month 8

Mumbrellacast: The Jenny Craig PR disaster | The Gruen Olympics | Australia Day marketing | Making radio ads 1

Cricket Australia launches ad to push one-day tournament 6

Warburton: Mott is the best 1

Matt Granfield joins Heritage Bank as marketing manager 4

2011 cinema advertising down on year before

Greenpeace uses real oil-covered dead birds in ads to warn of dangers of deep sea oil drilling 19

Tourism Tasmania and BOFA launch $20,000 film competition

AACTA confirms award presenters

CMO summit sells out

Boating industry calls agency pitch for pro-bono work 65

Tourism Tasmania holds short film competition 3

Club Med appoints first Australian agency 4

Shift hires creative director Dale Rhodes and ECD of design Nick Beckhurst 4

McCann Melbourne makes four new hires 1

STW sells one third of DTDigital to WPP

Sunday Telegraph: how good is the Sunday before Australia day? 5

Radio industry to test digital measurement system 6

Rob Morrison leaves Shift after 4 months 6

Richard Gray’s AFL film Blinder announces cast

MediaCom appoints Fiona Johnston to senior marketing role 11

Jason Scott appointed MD of News Queensland 1

Madman Entertainment appoints MPG 2

Agency bosses disagree on 2012 media market forecasts 5

Australians nominated for BAFTAs

Camilla Severi dropped from Brisbane’s Nova Breakfast 7

Mike Quigley presents at ASTRAs Conference

Four Australian films heading to Film Festival Rotterdam 1

Topshop appoints EVH to handle Australian PR

BMF hires two ECDs – Carlos Alija and Laura Sampedro from Spanish agency 6

Top of the Lake starts shooting in February 1

Tropfest Roughcut symposium to feature local and international filmmakers