Morning Update – Sept 10: Monopoly with cats; Nurse Inquiry delayed; Facebook & Iran
Adfreak: Monopoly’s new cat game piece – One of the world’s favourite board games has a new piece and a new ad to go with it.
“For its iconic Monopoly game, the toy giant crowdsourced a new player piece earlier this year to replace the long-maligned iron. Not surprisingly, the cat won.”
BBC News: Nurse Jacintha Saldanha inquest delayed again – the Saldanha family is disappointed with a second inquiry delay.
“The decision on the inquest – due to start in London on Thursday – has left her family ‘rather disappointed’.”
Daily Telegraph: Iranian ministers open pages on banned Facebook – The regime is opening up some greater access to social media.
“The Facebook pages of 15 ministers could be viewed in Tehran through a proxy server. Newspapers on Monday hinted the move might herald the lifting of some internet barriers.”
New York Times: Publisher of Politico buys Capital New York – Politico buys what it intend to turn it into a version of Politico for the Empire State.
“‘I have very big ambitions for this publication: to do in New York what we did in Washington with Politico,’ Mr. Allbritton said in an e-mail message to Politico staff.”
