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• 4WD Touring publisher wins prize dispute with unhappy subscriber

  21-02-2018 23:58
  Carlisle Rogers, publisher of 4WD Touring Australia magazine, has won an appeal against the winner of a magazine competition, encouraging publishers to stand up for their principles to avoid a tarnished reputation.
  Rogers’ magazine was sued in July last year by competition winner Grant Lawler, who had won a 2002 Toyota Landcruiser, a Pioneer camper trailer and a boat and outboard, in a magazine competition. It was said to be worth $150,000.
  Rogers founded the publication in 2012, and had n
  
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• Jessica Torstensson joins Wavemaker as group business director

  21-02-2018 23:35
  Group M’s Wavemaker has hired Jessica Torstensson to the newly created role of group business director for the Hungry Jack’s account.
  Torstensson joins from OMD where she was the client lead on the McDonalds account for just over a year.Torstensson joins Wavemaker in a newly created role
  Before joining OMD, Torstensson spent two and a half years at PhD in Sweden.
  In her new role at Wavemaker, Torstensson joins the management team and will lead a group of eight while oversee
  
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• Ten daily appoints Mel Cornford as managing editor

  21-02-2018 23:04
  Ten has announced the appointment of Mel Cornford as managing editor of ten daily, the network’s as-yet-to-be-launched entertainment and lifestyle site.
  Cornford joined Ten in 2016 as project lead on ten daily, and has been developing the site since then.
  The site is described by Ten as a “standalone, mobile-optimised website that will be rich in short-form video content and offer premium and exclusive entertainment, lifestyle, opinion news and sport content.”
  The network&
  
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