Media industry

Media industry

In late November, AFP photographer Andrew Caballero-Reynolds snapped a photo of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holding her young son at a Thanksgiving turkey-pardoning event in the briefing room. The image was innocuous. It was also unflattering. And according to Status, the White House made sure AFP knew it.

If you haven't watched Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat yet, do yourself a favour and fire it up this weekend on Amazon Prime. The premise is brilliantly simple: one unsuspecting employee thinks they're on a legit company retreat while everyone around them is an actor orchestrating increasingly absurd situations.

The S&P 500 is down 0.5%, or by 33 points. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) is down 0.36%, or by $2.32. The Dow is down 0.45%, or by 208 points. The Nasdaq is down 0.73%, or by 173 points.

Versant has emerged as one of multiple suitors in talks to acquire the network of approximately 40 podcasts. Sources with knowledge of the talks told the Times that those discussions were still in early stages.

"Fake reviews strike at the heart of consumer trust. With household budgets under pressure, people need to know they're getting genuine information not reviews or star-ratings that have been manipulated to push them towards the wrong choice."

Leaving influential Kerry forward free represented an egregious miscalculation on the part of Jim McGuinness. It's never that simple.

Ian Millner's departure from Iris Worldwide marks a significant transition, as he steps down after 26 years of leadership, having built the agency into a $100m-plus global operation.

To me, it's cringe because the reason people watch CNN is for the credibility of Jake, and Anderson, and [Erin Burnett]; and there is you know sort of this illusion, if you want to put it that way, about television news. It's larger than life, the colors are brighter than in real life, it's big fancy sets that glow, and that's what it is.