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Stephen Browning to run News Limited comms

TED speaker auditions to come to Sydney – but no product-hawkers, jargon-junkies, dullards, motivator wannabes or spouters of new-age fluff 3

Leo Burnett Melbourne hires GPY&R’s Luc Wiesman to head digital 6

News Limited launches David Attenborough DVD promotion

Schweppes brings back Solo Man 2

Call for entries: January Ad of the Month

A Few Best Men director slams film critic at AACTA awards 16

New production company Sweetbox opens 6

Mango lands Qantas PR and experiential duties in New Zealand 2

Kellogg’s in hunt for new marketing director

Louie the Fly campaign enters final phase 17

P&G targets mums with Olympics campaign

Joe Talcott departs News Limited and AANA 15

Plaza Films unveils new directing duo Clemens & Commins

Ten loses 7pm’s battle of the bulge 6

Ed Smith to head Foxtel sales and marketing as Corin Dimopoulos takes News Limited role 1

Coles moves into Woolies’ freshness territory 23

CommBank launches new TV ad: ‘start with us’ 8

Radio industry introduces tablet apps to measure audiences in ‘world first’

Headhunter gets a fitting new name: Cloak & Dagger 18

CumminsRoss opens in Adelaide 4

Iron Sky selected for Berlin International Film Festival 2

A Few Best Men takes $1.8m on opening weekend 5

Jack McCoy’s Deeper Shade of Blue gets March release

Elissa Krajcer departs Talent Transfer after five months 18

The Artist wins big at AACTA International Awards

DDB Sydney uses talking bread man in new Tip Top TV ad 9

Viewers stay up for late night tennis 2

Triumph claims Australian Facebook first with ‘buddy up’ campaign 3

Beer ads win round four of Sirens 2

Sacked AFR boss sues Fairfax 4

Hi Life Health & Beauty retracts ‘misleading’ anti-ageing ad 1

Sophie Falkiner fronts new campaign for MeadowLea 10

‘Foxtel could try to buy Ten’

PHD to open Melbourne office 1

Toyota launches ad for new Camry Atara 11

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