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Today in New York City’s Bryant Park, 9-to-5ers, tourists and other passersby might notice that the magazines at the newsstand on the corner of 42nd Street and 6th Avenue look a bit different. Instead of Time, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and People, they’ll see titles like The Informationalist, The Manhattan Daily, Hussle and The Weekly Journal.

While the covers closely mimic the design of more familiar publications, the subject matter seems pulled from Facebook feeds and Twitter streams, with headlines like “Toddler Fightclub,” “Texas Now Recognized as Mexican State,” “GOP Train Crash was a ‘Deep State Assassination Attempt.”

All the headlines are pulled straight from the annals of the internet– unsubstantiated, false stories that saw plenty of traction in the real world. They’re all part of “The Fake News Stand,” an activation created by TBWA/Chiat/Day New York for the Columbia Journalism Review that, ahead of the mid-term elections, seeks to call attention to the dangers of the misinformation we encounter in the media.

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Today in New York City’s Bryant Park, 9-to-5ers, tourists and other passersby might notice that the magazines at the newsstand on the corner of 42nd Street and 6th Avenue look a bit different. Instead of Time, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and People, they’ll see titles like The Informationalist, The Manhattan Daily, Hussle and The Weekly Journal.

While the covers closely mimic the design of more familiar publications, the subject matter seems pulled from Facebook feeds and Twitter streams, with headlines like “Toddler Fightclub,” “Texas Now Recognized as Mexican State,” “GOP Train Crash was a ‘Deep State Assassination Attempt.”

All the headlines are pulled straight from the annals of the internet– unsubstantiated, false stories that saw plenty of traction in the real world. They’re all part of “The Fake News Stand,” an activation created by TBWA/Chiat/Day New York for the Columbia Journalism Review that, ahead of the mid-term elections, seeks to call attention to the dangers of the misinformation we encounter in the media.

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Knifemaker WR Case & Sons seek to cut through the clutter by focusing on hands using blades to create, repair and refurbish, rather than obsessing over the shiny tools themselves. Our hands, we’re told, “have become all thumbs.” Thanks to technology, we’ve lost the ability to build bookcases, fix cars and julienne potatoes. We must…

The move is set for 2020, with 11 agencies moving to the former RBS building.

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Dan Lucey joins Joan Creative as executive creative director and the agency’s first equity partner, after six years as ECD at BBDO leading the Foot Locker, Priceline and Guinness accounts. The move comes a little over a year after his former creative partner Chris Beresford-Hill left BBDO to become chief creative officer at TBWAChiatDay New York.

Previously, Lucey was a creative director at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners running the Google and Comcast accounts. He has also held positions at Saatchi & Saatchi N.Y. and Mad Dogs & Englishmen, where he had worked with Joan co-founder Jaime Robinson. His portfolio includes celebrated work like “Wheelchair Basketball” for Guinness and “Talking Stain” for Tide.

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