Live blog: Thursday, August 21
Welcome to Mumbrella’s live blog, our daily roundup of what’s happening in media and marketing.
Top Stories:
- Leaked News Corp documents show financial state of its Australian newspapers
- Julian Clarke backs The Australian’s campaign against the Press Council
- News Corp CEO admits to ‘head winds’ but claims trend lines are ‘heading the right way’
- Turnbull tells media industry to find consensus before changes to reach rules can be made
- Kim Williams: News Corp marketing techniques inherited were from the 1980s
- ACMAgiven leave to contest 2DayFM ruling in Australia’s highest court over nurse prank call
- Dr Mumbo: Aussie hunks in trunks and Freedom of speech and the ‘optimism bias’
4:08pm – Old Spice has recruited the ‘Bondi Hipsters’ to present an Australian take on the brand’s ‘Mom song‘ used in the US to market the brand.
Don’t you love it when old blokes sit around and talk about the “future”?
Mind you Cyber … they have seen the future coming for longer. Let’s just say that oldies have “bigger data” on which to judge things.