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Campaign's selection of media news and views of note in the week before 17 May 2013.

Trinity Mirror revenues fall 10% in Q1 amid 'difficult' ad market

Trinity Mirror, the national and regional newspaper group, has reported a 10% drop in revenues for the start of 2013 following double-digit falls in display advertising.

BMB partners with Kelner to launch PR arm

Beattie McGuinness Bungay has launched a PR agency led by Simon Kelner, the former editor-in-chief and managing director of The Independent.

Rothermere plots global domination for Mail Online

In a rare interview, the Daily Mail and General Trust owner lays bare his big ambitions for Mail Online's global dominance. By Arif Durrani.

News International to charge £2 per week for Sun+ access

News International Group has today announced its long-awaited paywall for The Sun website will launch on 1 August and cost £2 per week.

Newspaper ABCs: Strong April for British newsstands

Extensive coverage and reflection following the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher drove thousands of readers to the newsstands last month, the latest figures by the Audit Bureau of Circulations confirm.

The7stars sends biomass lobbying ads to MPs

The7stars has been appointed to work on ads that will be sent to MPs and appear in national press to support a lobbying campaign against biomass subsidies.

BT begins £100m ad blitz to promote BT Sport

BT has set aside £100 million to promote its new sports channels, as it attempts to overthrow two decades of football dominance by BSkyB ahead of next season's Premier League.

Financial Times added to Flipboard

The Financial Times will be available on the mobile app Flipboard as of today, in response to mobile's increasing importance as a channel for driving the FT's traffic and digital subscriptions.

Blinkbox campaign targets LoveFilm Instant and Netflix

Blinkbox, the film-streaming service owned by Tesco, is turning up the heat on LoveFilm Instant and Netflix with a campaign that highlights selected films on its platform can be viewed over a year before they become available on other rival sites, wi...

Panasonic brings 'everything you love' into one place

Panasonic is launching an international multimedia campaign to highlight the way viewers can customise the home screen of the brand's Viera TVs.

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Campaign's selection of media news and views of note in the week before 3 May 2013.

Media360 Awards: Who has been the best media agency, leader and advertiser of the decade? You decide...

As Media360 turns 10 years old, we will be celebrating the very best in the business with our Decade of Achievement Awards. Here is your chance to decide who is crowned the media leader, media agency, and best advertiser of the decade, and who wins t...

GoCompare.com is most complained-about advertiser of 2012

GoCompare.com was the most complained-about advertiser of the past year with a total of nearly 2,000 complaints, according to the Advertising Standards Authority.

Manning Gottlieb retains DWP enrolment brief

Manning Gottlieb OMD has retained the media planning contract for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) automatic enrolment campaign, after a three-way pitch.

Newspaper groups reject state regulation and create rival charter

Five leading newspaper groups, including the previously standalone Express Newspapers, have rejected the Government's all-party plans for press regulation unpinned by statute, and launched their own "Royal Charter for independent self-regulation of t...

Inaugural newspaper event creates debate

Industry leaders gathered at Newsworks' first-ever forum to share thoughts on future-facing platforms. By Arif Durrani.

Arif Durrani: Newsworks captures shift in a press sector

Change was in the air at Newsworks' Shift 2013 event last week, when leaders from the fractious newspaper business set aside their differences and held the industry equivalent of the wartime Christmas Day football match.

Journalism is changing from how we're reading to how much we're reading

Whenever I m tempted to slag off some Big Dumb Agency move, I think of something Clay Shirky wrote, comparing our era to the advent of publishing: "We re collectively living through the 1500s, when it s easier to see what s broken than what will repl...