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Call for hot new directing talent to enter Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase 2013
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The legendary Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase (NDS) has become one of the genuine highlights of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, and the 2013 edition will mark the 23rd year of this unique event. The NDS features the very best new directing talent, identified through our global network of agencies around...
DW Global Media Forum announce prominent speakers
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World-renowned linguist, philosopher and political critic, Avram Noam Chomsky, and Indian physicist and sustainability activist, Vandana Shiva, have confirmed their participation at this year’s Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum. Online registration has begun.
Chomsky, an intellectual father of the Occupy movement, will address the international...
Dubai Lynx to launch Branded Content and Entertainment section
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The Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity will launch a new entry section for Branded Content and Entertainment honouring the best work that has delivered marketing messages by engaging consumers via relevant content platforms rather than traditional advertising methods.
The inaugural jury will be chaired by Mike Wiese, Director...
Eurobest celebrates European Creativity Graffiti Legend Neils Shoe Meulman
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London:- Eurobest, the European Festival of Creativity which this year celebrates 25 years, has announced that internationally-renowned graffiti artist Niels Shoe Meulman will join the Festival in Lisbon to work on a live graffiti project in the city.
Niels Shoe Meulman, also known as Shoe, is a visual artist, graffiti writer, graphic...
BBC announces changes to its freelance contracting arrangements
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The BBC has published a review of its freelance contracting arrangements. The review was conducted by Deloitte LLP and the BBC’s own internal audit department, and covers all on-air and off-air individuals contracted and paid in the financial year 2011/12.
The review was commissioned following the Government’s Alexander Review...
CREAM 2012 partners Mother for a finale with a difference
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CREAM, the annual competition held by The Talent Business to identify emerging global creative talent, has partnered with Mother for a finale with a difference. The private view that introduces the competition winners to the world’s leading advertising agencies and creative businesses will take the form of CREAM 2012 – The Mother...
Cannes Chimera gets over 900 applications from 85 countries
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London: Organisers of a global communications challenge to find innovative new ways to tell the story of overseas aid said today they had been overwhelmed by the quality of creative ideas submitted.
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who together launched the Aid is Working....
Thailand to 65th World Newspaper Congresss in 2013
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The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), today invited the world's press to attend the 65th World Newspaper Congress, 20th World Editors Forum and 23rd World Newspaper Advertising Forum, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 2 to 5 June 2013.
The invitation was issued at this year’s World Newspaper...
Beirut to host the first SND, Nahar News Design conference & workshop
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Alastair Dant : Lead interactive technologist from Guardian News & Media (London) will be the keynote speaker. The event will address challenges of designing for multiple formats.
In a time of great change in the region, the media industry is also transforming; the challenge is now to adapt to and absorb these new trends. Given this...
Bill Clinton to speak at Cannes Lions
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New Delhi:To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the foundation of Grupo ABC, the largest communications group in Latin America, President Bill Clinton will address delegates at the 59th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Taking to the stage in the Palais des Festivals in Cannes on Thursday evening 21 June, President Clinton...