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Editors have always come under pressure from proprietors, forever anxious to protect their commercial investment and, quite often, suck up to friends and supposed allies. Such conflicts aren’t always as black and white as they seem. Hacks often hunt in ...

More sport and footballers, but we like this one. The World Food Programme has signed up star Sweden and PSG striker Zlatan Ibramimovic (whose usual image is, shall we say, not so charitable) to front its ’805′ campaign. Apparently there ...

It’s an ill wind…the EU may be going to hell in a handcart but communications giant WPP is riding to the rescue. WPP’s Government & Public Sector Practice is launching a ‘dedicated client team’ for EU institutions, public bodies and ...

Publicis Groupe has finally sealed its $3.7bn takeover of technology company Sapient (which also includes the Sapient Nitro agency) after finally persuading the US authorities that French ownership of the company – which works on US defence business – poses ...

180 Amsterdam has produced this chirpy number hymning Qatar Airways and its tie-up with FC Barcelona (Qatar Airways is Barca’s first shirt sponsor). It shows the lads – Messi and co. – on their holidays. Gas-rich Qatar is the controversial ...

Lots of the Twitterati and others think so anyway. Nationwide Insurance’s second Super Bowl ad featuring the death of a child appears to have upset a few million Americans. Here’s what Nationwide says: “Preventable injuries around the home are the ...

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell is an interesting choice to debate inequality (total pay packet over the past two years £48m, estimated net worth £200m, and that’s with the big divorce out of the way). But that’s what he was doing ...

Who’s right about Tesco, Terry or Phil? Or are they both wrong? Former CEO Sir Terry Leahy (left) broke his silence on Tesco on last night’s BBC Panorama programme, blaming a ‘failure of leadership’ (Phil Clarke his successor as CEO) ...

FCB Inferno is launching its big new campaign for Sport England tonight, telling the nation’s women that ‘This Girl Can.’ Apparently we’re all obese, or verging on it, these days so FCB Inferno has rounded up a collection of well-upholstered ...

Leo Burnett’s Created for Change unit is launching a new film in the UK – ‘I Saw Your Willy’ – for the NSPCC’s ‘Share Aware’ campaign which tries to help parents with tools and information to help their children enjoy ...