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• 10 questions with... Rob Morrice, chief executive of Stein IAS

  27-05-2018 23:12
  The Drum speaks to people across the global media and marketing sector who are bringing something a little different to the industry and talks to them about what little insights they can offer the rest of us. This week's 10 Questions With... features Stein IAS chief, Rob Morrice. 
   
  What was your first ever job? 
  I was a sports reporter with that iconic newspaper The Sunday Post. I interviewed Andy Gray at a Scotland training camp in Largs just after he moved from Dundee Utd
  
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• MPs want gambling firms to be treated like tobacco firms, calling for ad bans and health warnings

  27-05-2018 13:56
  A cross-party group of MPs and peers are pushing to have gambling companies treated like tobacco firms, calling on health warnings to be displayed on their products and a ban on advertising during live sporting events.
  The group, which includes shadow culture secretary Tom Watson and former Tory minister John Hayes, want the companies to be forced to stop any associations that gambling is “fun”.
  It said that the current system where “the onus of social responsibility remains su
  
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• WPP advisory to reveal if it will back shareholder protest over Sorrell exit ahead of AGM

  27-05-2018 12:21
  WPP advisory group ISS is set to reveal whether it will back shareholders in a protest over the departure of Sir Martin Sorrell.
  Sorrell quit the company he founded in April in the midst of an investigation into allegations of financial and personal misconduct. Since then, the full circumstances behind his resignation have been kept confidential due to data privacy laws.
  But, the advertising group’s chairman Roberto Quarta has been under mounting pressure from WPP shareholders to reveal th
  
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