By John McCarthy A gunman has shot dead two members of a news crew live on air in Virginia. CBS News has said that that reporter Alison Parker and videographer Adam Ward for CBS Roanoke affiliate group WDBJ-TV died from the assault during a broadcast early on Wednesday morning. During the interview at Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, the camera was dropped amid gunfire and screams could be heard. The broadcast cut back to a stunned news anchor. Graphic footage of the attack has emerged on Facebook and Twitter. At the time of publication, the gunman remains at large. Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Leonie Roderick Burger King released a proposal earlier today (26 August) suggesting that the two restaurants set aside their differences to create the “McWhopper”, which would include a combination of ingredients from Burger King’s Whopper and McDonald’s Big Mac, in honour of Peace Day, a United Nations-recognised annual day of global unity. The brand suggested that a pop-up restaurant be launched in Atlanta for one day, in between both brands’ HQs in Miami and Chicago, where staff from both fast food chains would come together and serve their limited edition burger. While McDonald’s recognised its rival’s “great idea”, the brand believes that both chains Read full story › Source: Marketing Week...
Read MoreBy John McCarthy An internet fraudster has pleaded guilty to sending tens of millions of spam messages through puppet Facebook accounts he had illegally gained access to. ‘Spam King’ Sanford Wallace admitted to the industrial level marketing attack in 2008 and 2009, pleading guilty to fraud and criminal contempt, according to Bloomberg. Gaining the log-in details of an estimated half a million Facebook accounts, Wallace used the network to send unsolicited messages demanding account details or to drive traffic to external websites – for a fee. In a further breach of law, Wallace had an additional ban from the social network, dating from 2009, after Facebook Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Gillian West From controllers to commissioners, TV stars to US gamechangers this year’s Edinburgh International Television Festival is set to be packed with news, insights, highlights and more. Here you can follow all the breaking news from the sessions at the festival as well as behind-the-scenes insights from our reporting team on the ground. Coverage includes Wednesday’s MacTaggart lecture from Armando Iannucci, Martin Freeman in conversation with Mark Lawson on Thursday and Friday’s digital keynote from Matt Brittin, Google. [View the story “Edinburgh TV Festival” on Storify] Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy Tony Connelly The charity’s awareness campaign wis tapping the rocketing popularity of emojis to help find homes for some of the hundreds of dogs that find themselves at their centres each year. The keyboard consists of 23 of the most popular breeds in the UK including pugs, dachshunds, great Danes, as well as even more exotic doggies like Shar-Peis and huskies. Adrian Burder, chief executive of Dogs Trust, said the emojis which would allow people to “celebrate the wonderful variety of our UK population in a fun and creative way”. Unicode, which dictates the approval of official emojis, previously unveiled a small number dog Read full story › Source: The Drum...
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