Here Are All of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Journalism’s most prestigious honors were announced today at Columbia University, where the Pulitzer Prizes were awarded. Dana Canedy, the Pulitzer administrator, complimented the work of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners, saying they are doing the work the founding fathers intended–protecting freedom of speech. “Their work is real news of the highest order, executed nobly as…

Fox News' Hannity shares an embattled lawyer with the president he defends on TV


Sean Hannity, Fox News’ biggest star, has long been one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest defenders on cable TV, and now it turns out that they also share a lawyer.

Lawyers for Michael Cohen revealed the association with Hannity in a New York City courtroom Monday, saying the host is one of Cohen’s three recent clients.

Cohen, who is under criminal investigation by U.S. prosecutors for possible bank and wire fraud, is Trump’s longtime lawyer. Cohen said he paid $130,000 to adult-film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, for her silence on an alleged affair with Trump. Cohen’s other client is Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser who resigned from the Republican National Committee after it was disclosed that he and Cohen paid $1.6 million to a Playboy Playmate with whom he had an extramarital affair.

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Facebook answers some questions Zuckerberg didn't in testimony


Mark Zuckerberg spent much of his Congressional testimony making the case that Facebook users have control over their data. But what about the data the social network collects from people who don’t even have accounts?

In Congress last week, Zuckerberg said Facebook needed to track people who weren’t members for “security purposes.” In a follow-up blog post Monday, the company laid out plenty of business reasons to do it too.

Facebook said other websites and apps use its services to let people quickly create accounts and later share content on their Facebook pages, like news articles. Behind the scenes, Facebook also helps some sites and apps track their performance and run ads from Facebook advertisers.

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ASICS: I MOVE ME: Dewi Griffiths

As part of the new I MOVE ME campaign by Asics, the second film in the series was released, sharing the story of Welsh runner and shepherd Dewi Griffiths. On entering his first ever marathon in 2017, Dewi shocked himself and the running community by becoming the fastest UK marathon runner since 2014 – ‘I don’t run to follow, but to lead’. Filming was done in the Welsh countryside, over the course of several days bringing snow, rain and a bit of sun.

Video of ASICS – Dewi Griffiths

Cartoon Network: Cartoon Network – 25 Years

Cartoon Network has always been an inspiration for kids everywhere. So much so, that even many grown-ups who work in animation do it exactly because of how much they loved Cartoon’s creations when they were young.

That’s why it was such a gigantic honor for us at Le Cube, after we too were not so long ago just kids sitting in front of the TV amazed by what we saw, to create the channel’s 25th-anniversary celebration film.

Sean Hannity Is Named as Michael Cohen’s Client

Lawyers for Mr. Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer, had sought to keep Mr. Hannity’s identity a secret in a court challenge of an F.B.I. search of Mr. Cohen’s office.

2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Full List

The prizes encompassed, among other topics, stories of abuse in the workplace; construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall; and a profile of Dylann Roof, who was charged with killing several people in a Charleston, S.C., church.

Vice hires from Twitter, Aldridge joins Spark44


Vice has named Donna Lamar and David Lennon as group creative directors. Lamar joins from Twitter, where she served as creative director, Twitter #Studio. She has held creative positions at Amusement Park Entertainment, TBWA/Chiat/Day and was head of production at Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam. Lennon joined Vice in 2017, focusing on VICE News and VICE Money. Prior to that he was global creative director at the Wall Street Journal’s Custom Studios, working on campaigns for Netflix, Morgan Stanley, MetLife Foundation and Delta Air Lines. He has also worked at Bloomberg’s Content Studio and McCann-Erickson Manchester.

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MGM National Harbor: Monday

MGM National Harbor is a massively popular Casino and resort in Washington DC. However, it needed to drive business on the weekdays. Everybody knows that Friday night is a great night to spend in a casino but what about a Tuesday? So we created a campaign, directed by Jim Jenkins, that took those more mundane weekdays — Monday through Thursday – and personified them. The spots feature each day in turn as they discover that at MGM National Harbor “Every Day Is Monumental.”

The first two spots from the campaign (“Monday” and “Wednesday”) launch on Monday, 4/16, and the second two spots (“Tuesday” and “Thursday”) launch Monday, 4/23. The campaign spans TV, OOH, print, digital, social and radio.

Video of Monday at MGM National Harbor

MGM National Harbor: Wednesday

MGM National Harbor is a massively popular Casino and resort in Washington DC. However, it needed to drive business on the weekdays. Everybody knows that Friday night is a great night to spend in a casino but what about a Tuesday? So we created a campaign, directed by Jim Jenkins, that took those more mundane weekdays — Monday through Thursday – and personified them. The spots feature each day in turn as they discover that at MGM National Harbor “Every Day Is Monumental.”

The first two spots from the campaign (“Monday” and “Wednesday”) launch on Monday, 4/16, and the second two spots (“Tuesday” and “Thursday”) launch Monday, 4/23. The campaign spans TV, OOH, print, digital, social and radio.

Video of Wednesday at MGM National Harbor

State Border Guard Service of Ukraine: Cars

State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Print Ad - Cars

The recruitment campaign for State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. Within the framework of the reforms, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine needs young, ambitious, motivated people who want to become the new faces of the state on its borders. To achieve this, a transparent and open competition The New Face of the Border is taking place. We were responsible for communication of campaign.

As far as the main task for the future frontier guard is to be attentive, we created a series of prints with puzzles. Each print designed to attract attention to it and puzzles recreate real-life violations, such as kidnapping and illegal border crossing.

State Border Guard Service of Ukraine: Thermal Vision

State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Print Ad - Thermal Vision

The recruitment campaign for State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. Within the framework of the reforms, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine needs young, ambitious, motivated people who want to become the new faces of the state on its borders. To achieve this, a transparent and open competition The New Face of the Border is taking place. We were responsible for communication of campaign.

As far as the main task for the future frontier guard is to be attentive, we created a series of prints with puzzles. Each print designed to attract attention to it and puzzles recreate real-life violations, such as kidnapping and illegal border crossing.

Schweppes?: What Do You Expect?

Video of Schweppes – What do you expect ?

Dental House: Floss Is In the Air – Chicken

Dental House Print Ad - Floss Is In the Air - Chicken

Dental House: Floss Is In the Air – Cow

Dental House Print Ad - Floss Is In the Air - Cow

Dental House: Floss Is In the Air – Pig

Dental House Print Ad - Floss Is In the Air - Pig

The Times and The New Yorker Share Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Reporting on sexual harassment — including the predations of the film mogul Harvey Weinstein — was recognized by the Pulitzer board. The New York Times won in three categories.

The Times Just Won 3 Pulitzers. Read the Winning Work.

The newspaper is recognized for its work in public service, national reporting and editorial cartooning.

Rise and fall of an agency empire builder. (Not that one.)


He built the world’s largest agency holding company with a big idea, borrowed money and went on a buying binge on a scale the industry had never seen. Ad Age called him “arguably the agency world’s most innovative empire builder of the 20th century.” But suddenly, three decades after he began, he was out of a job.

The man in question is Marion Harper Jr., who in 1961 morphed McCann Erickson into the first major agency company, Interpublic.

“McCann Erickson has reorganized again,” Ad Age wrote at the time, “with the establishment of a new parent company, Interpublic Inc.,” overseeing two agencies, McCann Erickson and McCann-Marschalk Co. “Interpublic, the new corporate umbrella, will provide the affiliate companies with management and financial guidance and central services such as personnel and accounting.”

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Editing Tweaks That Can Boost Your Video’s Performance on Facebook

A common mistake we see brands make is that they take their TV commercials or YouTube videos and upload them directly to Facebook without any changes. But by doing that, they’re leaving potentially millions of views on the table. Facebook video culture is different, and a few tweaks go a long way. Here’s how we…