Hasta La Creative!

Today in End of An Era news, agency PRs everywhere will no longer be pitching Stuart Elliott for coverage in The New York Times. As Elliott announced on his Facebook page this morning (and Capital New York reported), he has chosen to take early retirement via one of 100 staff buyouts after working at the paper since 1991.

In his words:

Elliott has, of course, covered everything from campaigns to M&A in his two-plus decades with the NYT.

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A question for the men in the audience: have you ever mentored a young person? The answer is almost certainly no, but Esquire wants to change that with the help of 72andSunny and its new “Mentoring Project.”

In short, the magazine enlisted a bunch of celebrities along with three ad agencies to try and sell the virtues of the practice to its uber-sophisticated readers. These spots, which will appear in the magazine as well as on its website/social feeds and video channel, aim to “puncture [the] stuffiness” that leads so many men to sit at home rather than reaching out to the young dudes who need their wisdom.

The idea is that mentoring is a bit less intimidating when framed as a simple sharing of manly pleasures. As the copy on the above ad puts it:

“That idea can seem paralyzing — like we have to be Aristotle or George Washington or something.

But you don’t need to be a philosopher or scholar, boy scout or saint. Men learn by doing. Go. Eat burgers bigger than your head. Together.”

Two more after the jump.

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The week’s biggest spoiler to date has nothing to do with “Game of Thrones” or “Mad Men.”

Martin Sorrell of WPP dropped an extremely premature bomb during an “executive breakfast” hosted by the Wall Street Journal: JWT will once again become the J. Walter Thompson Company as part of its 150th anniversary “rebranding.”

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