With a senior exec named as abuser, has adland's belated #MeToo reckoning finally begun?

In the latest edition of Unmade’s Start The Week podcast, Tim Burrowes and Damian Francis talk about developments in the world of media and marketing that broke over the weekend and this morning.

Today’s episode deals with sexual harassment in the media and marketing industry. If you or someone you care about needs support, please contact 1800 RESPECT at 1800 737 732. In an emergency, call 000.

Today’s topics:

• The MD of one of Australia’s largest independent creative agencies is publicly named as a sexual predator;

• Australia’s independent publishers plan to go dark as part of a attempt to grab some of the Google and Facebook digital dollars;

• Commercial Radio Australia reveals its new CEO

Further reading

• Ella Campbell’s LinkedIn post from the weekend;

• Ella Campbell’s Mumbrella post about her experience of sexual harassment in adland from last week;

• Ella Campbell’s Mumbrella post about adland misogyny from December;

• CRA appoints Ford Ennals as new CEO

• ‘Obscene power imbalance’: Local small publications to down tools for a day

This is the third episode of Start the Week. Like almost everything involving Unmade, it’s still an evolving format, so please do tell us what you think

Today’s episode features Unmade’s Tim Burrowes and Damian Francis.

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