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Most recorded Aussie TV shows last week: MasterChef and Home & Away 3

Phil Hayden departs as Naked CEO after nine months

LAFHA losers threaten to quit country 87

Australian executive producer secures Russian distribution for zombie film

Callout for Mumbrella360 social media volunteers 7

Tourism Tasmania campaign mocks pretentiousness of mainland Aussies 31

Call for entries: May’s Ad of the Month

Paul Henry: Breakfast is a long way from its best, but it will improve 22

Mumbrellacast: Ten’s Paul Henry | M&C’s Ben Welsh | Behind ‘Can’ | The Bledisloe of advertising | Hungry Jack’s nice girls | Bingle: Ten’s big hope

Qantas pitch: ZO, Droga 5, Play Communication, Amnesia Razorfish, Subnine and R/GA announced for roster 9

The Block tops Thursday 1

Radio National’s Common Knowledge to tap into the male psyche at Mumbrella360

Nissan X-Trail ads promote new feature to help people park 5

CumminsRoss wins Asahi 8

Foxtel consolidates creative into Clems; The Monkeys, Dynamix and Lavender lose out 10

NewsLifeMedia boss installs ex-LifeStyle Channels colleague Sharyn Whitten as comms chief

Diageo splits with agency formerly known as Three Drunk Monkeys 11

Fairfax journalists stage protest rallies against ‘shocking’ outsourcing plans 3

First indigenous sci-fi film penned and produced by M&C Saatchi staffer 13

Australia’s top media agencies to be revealed at Mumbrella360 2

Vic train operator sends Melburnians on a guilt trip 9

Telstra ‘crunching the numbers’ on buying Nine 7

Amazing Race’s return gets 886,000, Denton’s Randling falls to almost half debut 5

Bonds Birthday Project team to reveal story behind the campaign at Mumbrella360 24

Fairfax journalists go on strike over plans to shift regional paper production to NZ 14

Red Dog to get US theatrical and Walmart distribution

Spreets founders to exit as boss acknowledges ‘challenging’ group buying market 11

Paul Fishlock launches ad agency: Behaviour Change Partners 9

The Pitch wins Aurora Short Film Festival 2

Swann Insurance: freedom is just another word for being well insured 5

Triple M grabs live Prince chat 4

BMF launches production studio to service Aldi, ‘We’re not shutting out production companies’ 6

Media investor Mark Carnegie joins Mumbrella360 lineup

KFC Australia appoints Edelman

Today beats Sunrise at breakfast, The Block wins the night

Car advertising regulation subject to review 6

Ten throws Bingle into Tuesdays ‘thanks to ad support’ 7

Fairfax to outsource regional newspaper production to NZ 1

Modern families, PR crises and how to get CMOs to take public relations seriously get Mumbrella360 focus 1

Setanta Sports unveils Euro 2012 coverage promo 4

QuickFlix hires Liz Katsiotis from Austar as CMO

ACMA launches investigation into Sandilands ‘spider baby’ jokes 104

UNSW’s ‘This is not art’ piece wins Postcard of the Month 1

Easton Chang wins best ad snapper at Australian Photographer of the Year Awards

TAC motorbike speeding ad draws complaints from angry bikers 42

Men In Black III topples The Dictator with $5m opening box office weekend 5

Government announces $15m for Indigenous community channel

Hungry Jack’s targets women with ‘Nothing naughty about it’ campaign 36

Zoo founder Paul Merrill to talk babes, boobs and the search for Australia’s randiest nanna 5

James Collier joins former Ikon colleagues at Bohemia 3

The Voice wins Monday with just under 2m 9

Talking, winking, biking ram in new RAMS ad 12

Converse invites Aussies to grab free boots 16

Ten commissions crowd-sourced decision-making show The Audience 1

Cameras roll on first all-Indigenous TV series 1

The Block wins Sunday night

Telstra hires Proximity boss Adam Good as director of digital media and content 7

Transmission dominates at St Kilda Short Film Festival 1

CommBank’s Andy Lark in keynote session at Mumbrella360 next week 4

CommBank marketing chief: ‘thanks for ambushing us’ 24

News Limited set to cut jobs while Fairfax reported to be mulling closure of weekday editions 26

CommBank reveals its new position: ‘Can’ 118

Pink dollar and industry diversity to be covered in sessions at Mumbrella360 3

Arclight Films taps sales and acquisitions expert Michael Wrenn

SBS’s Go Back To Where You Came From announces celebrity cast 8

Sydney tribute film faces legal action from owner of Paris Je T’aime 4

Mumbrellacast: Klick moves to the US | Stonemen | The Great Gatsby | AFR’s App | The ‘Can’t’ campaign | Is the The Voice in decline?

DMG gives The Voice a voice on Nova 2

Foxtel, MCN and Rising Sun Pictures among opponents of LAFHA changes 29

Greenpeace ambushes ‘Can’t’ campaign

Scoopon tries to get more men into group buying with ‘mancation’ offer 2

Agency bosses to debate ‘bottom feeders’ at Mumbrella360

Dare Iced Coffee wins Mumbrella’s Ad of the Month 15

Rapp appoints Simone Blakers from Mark as MD 3

The Block is only non-news show to beat 1m, MasterChef droops to 0.94m 1

Seal to guest present for smoothfm launch 2

The final piece of the Can’t teaser – a jigsaw puzzle 20

New boss of NewsLifeMedia replaces Inside Out editor Richard Waller with Claire Bradley

Press Council pushes on with regulating online media

Virgin Mobile begins agency review, hires Euro RSCG

Reed Pacific Media axes editorial team, ‘We need to focus on staff who make us money, not those just producing content’ 14

A Current Affair: We’re not grubby journalists 26

Leo Burnett Sydney appoints former Saatchi’s creative as CD 2

Peoples Choice Credit Union puts sound lounge in shopping centre

Help us crowd source a crowd sourcing sceptic for Mumbrella360 6

State of Origin breaks viewership record with 2.5m 4

Greenpeace says KFC is ‘Junking the jungle’ by sourcing paper from Solaris 11

Kiwi supermarket New World launches brand campaign 15