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Marketing fail: Protesters back Mike Tyson into a corner
Wednesday 28 November 2012
Mike Tyson's reputation for controversy has taken new turn. The former boxing champ, convicted rapist, biter and bankruptcy claimant has a new job as the face of the drink Black Energy, for which he has been accused of being party to mysogyny and racism.
Student beats extradition to US by paying compensation
Wednesday 28 November 2012
Mother’s relief as TVShack founder is told he won’t face trial for ‘internet piracy’
Cinema giants eye Berlusconi chain The Space Cinema
Sunday 25 November 2012
Britain's three biggest cinema chains are considering bids for a group of picture houses owned by disgraced former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and fashion house Benetton.
Royal Opera chief set to take over at BBC
Friday 23 November 2012
Such was the rejoicing that greeted the appointment of Tony Hall as the new Director-General of the BBC yesterday that one could not help by wonder why the Royal Opera House chief executive had not been appointed before.
The trick to selling newspapers to students
Wednesday 21 November 2012
i has launched a marketing campaign aimed at getting students to engage with the paper, and I have been lucky enough to be chosen to represent the paper at the University of Kent. The task of promoting a paper to students is a difficult one, for all sorts of reasons.
Oh yes? Oh no, no no! Martin Clunes dropped from Churchill adverts after driving ban
Monday 19 November 2012
Men Behaving Badly actor Martin Clunes has been dropped from a car insurance advert after being disqualified from driving.
Obama scents victory in US election – but has he done enough?
Tuesday 06 November 2012
Encouraging polls for President Obama on his last ever day campaigning. David Usborne reports in Madison, Wisconsin
Chris Baird recovers for Fulham after collision with advertising hoardings
Friday 02 November 2012
Fulham defender Chris Baird is fit for the visit of Everton.
Babyjabs.co.uk warned over advertising prescription-only medicines to public
Wednesday 31 October 2012
A parenting website has been warned about advertising prescription-only medicines to the public just months after it was ordered to remove discredited claims that the MMR vaccine is linked to autism.
The car, the watch, the make-up, the beer advert: James Bond - licence to print money
Friday 26 October 2012
Skyfall is set to break box office records this weekend – but it’s not just tickets that Daniel Craig’s selling. Nick Clark on 007’s killer marketing campaign
New York Times plunges as advertising slump leads to surprise loss
Friday 26 October 2012
The New York Times Co. on Thursday tumbled the most in at least three decades after reporting a surprise loss on falling advertising sales, adding to the challenges for incoming Chief Executive Officer Mark Thompson.
Exam time: sample questions show what teachers can expect in new tests (no calculators please)
Friday 26 October 2012
Sample questions from the current and new teacher tests
Simon English: Sir Martin's many reasons to worry
Friday 26 October 2012
It is tempting to think that Sir Martin Sorrell gets taken way too seriously; that his position as chief (M)Ad Man makes journalists hang on his every word rather more than a dispassionate analysis of his predictive record merits.
Market Report: ITV braced for bad news on advertising
Friday 19 October 2012
ITV chairman Archie Norman has described television advertising as a "faulty shower" and it looks like the metaphorical water pressure could well be on the blink again.
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- 2 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 3 Special Report: US troops are stationed in Japan to protect the nation. But to sex workers in Okinawa, they bring fear, not security
- 4 Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
- 5 Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
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