Month: December 2020

Havas Media has retained U.S. media agency of record responsibilities for pharmaceutical giant Sanofi. The appointment follows a review dating back over six months which also saw Sanofi name Omnicom Media Group’s dedicated Sanofi @ Omnicom unit as its global media agency of record outside the U.S. As U.S. media agency of record, Havas Media…

With its new opinion section, business and tech publisher The Information is offering something else: perspective. For this task, the company hired former Wall Street Journal reporter Kevin Delaney, better known as the co-founder and former editor of digital-first business publication Quartz. Delaney is promising to use the new vertical–which published its debut opinions earlier…

“Section 230 facilitates the spread of foreign disinformation online, which is a serious threat to our national security and election integrity,” Trump said Wednesday in a message to Congress.

Total traffic deaths fell during pandemic lockdowns. But fatalities per mile traveled rose, due to faster driving, fewer cops, and more drug use.

The past year has been a bruising one for the television industry. Covid-19’s rapid descent on the globe turned off TV’s programming spigots, leading to a drought in advertising revenue. Consumers stuck at home continued to cord-cut or otherwise move over to streaming even faster than they had. And just as a sense of recovery…

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