Mumbrella live blog: Friday, May 2
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Top stories:
- Prime Media founder Paul Ramsay dies
- TV ratings: Ten’s dancing fizzles out
- Opinion: Act your age: why online video buying should not be like TV
- Cash for Tourism Australia, Screen Australia and marketing under threat
- Kmart replaces ‘Bom Bom’ with ‘The Clapping Song’in new campaign
- Melbourne heads of M&C Saatchi and BMF depart
- ANZ Bluenotes head wins journalism award
4:49pm – Activist organisation GetUp! are asking for those wanting to “safeguard the ABC from Tony Abbott’s chopping block” to gather in Martin Place Sydney at 11am tomorrow, with a Melbourne event also scheduled in Federation Square at the same time.
Speakers at the Sydney event include Jonathan Holmes, Adam Spencer, Wendy Harmer, Tom Ballard and Sam Mclean while Peter Combe, Dan Ilic and Erin McCallum will be speaking at the Melbourne event.
Would love to check hit what I’m sure is a fascinating interactive on the duchess of Cambridge’s frocks – but like most interactives fairfax produces these days, it doesn’t work on mobile. Maybe someone should tell their graphics department that majority of their audience will soon come to them via mobile devices – if they’re not already