Radio Margaret River (RMR) will begin FM broadcasting tonight at 7 pm WA time, featuring a two-hour special by long-time presenter Ian Smith, a passionate music historian, RadioInfo reported. Ian has been with the station since its online-only launch four years ago. The event will be attended by CBAA CEO Jon Bisset to mark the station's expanded reach across Busselton, Dunsborough, Margaret River and Hamelin Bay.  

US President Trump has announced plans to impose a 25 per cent tariff on imported cars and some components starting next week, a move that sets the stage for retaliation by others, including the EU and Canada, which have slammed the move. India Inc is reportedly in a wait-and-watch mode. Hot off the Press While Indian automakers will largely escape unscathed immediately, given the tiny exposure of the small vehicles made by them, industry players said the real impact could be in segments such as components and tyres, where the US is the biggest export market. Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover could be one of the companies to be hit, wrote Nandini Sengupta for The Times of India. With exports of $2.2 billion, the US accounted for 29 per cent of all auto parts shipped from India. Similarly, with tyre exports of Rs 4,259 crore (around $500 million), the US commanded 17% of the Indian exports. In recent years, both segments have gained substantially from the China + 1 strategy pur

Mamamia has launched what Brand Integration Lead Michelle Fry said on LinkedIn, “is the biggest thing we’ve ever done at Mamamia”.  Well is their new health media brand for women and Fry says it started with, “a simple but staggering truth, the female body has been overstudied aesthetically, but understudied in any way that actually matters for women’s health". Fry added that in Australia women were only included in clinical trials from the 1990s, and says that health education gap left women feeling overlooked and dismissed, “while bracing for yet another body twist that no-one warned her about”. "Well is here to fill that gap with credible, expert-led content (and NO apple cider vinegar),” said Fry. Across every topic, co-hosts Claire Murphy and Dr Mariam - along with the Well team of editors, producers and experts - will tackle the taboo, the annoying, the embarrassing, the scary.  “This is not a medical conference or an academic journal. It’s exactly

    Some 16,000 subscribers to Nine newspapers have had their personal data exposed online in a major cybersecurity breach. Subscribers to the SMH, the Age and the Fin Review have had their names, postal addresses and email addresses exposed online, although payment details and passwords were not affected. “We have been made aware by a security researcher that certain personal information held by a third party supplier was not protected to the level of Nine’s strict internal data protocols after an unauthorised change,” a Nine spokesperson said.  

After moving from London to Sydney via a travel break, Joe Gallop, 4Square Media’s newly appointed journalist, said his new role was a cross-country mission.  Gallop told Influencing. “So I was in Perth when I applied for the role. While I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, I knew it would be in journalism. I saw the 4Square job on LinkedIn, so I applied.  “I then got a call from 4Square Media and did the interview while I was in Melbourne, so I interviewed in Melbourne, and now I work in the Sydney office.” Gallop joined 4Square - writing for ChannelNews and SmartHouse - at the beginning of March, having first set foot in Australia around New Year's after several months travelling in the Asia/Pacific region.  He sees the new role as a “good fit”.  “Covering consumer tech, I thought it's a really, really exciting industry to be covering.  “It's a really exciting transition, seeing a new country and industry. I’m very much looking forward to getting stuck

  Eleven celebrate winning PR Agency of the Year – Large.   Eleven, Sefiani and Think Communications were among the winners at last night’s Mumbrella CommsCon Awards.  Held at Ilumina, Martin Place, Sydney,  - the very first event held at the new venue - the awards celebrated the best campaigns, PR people and PR agencies in the industry, with agency We Are Different’s work for Open Road, Open Up earning two awards: Best Campaign with a Small Budget and Best B2B Campaign. Merlin Entertainments won two accolades on the night. Its Pesto The King Penguin Chick initiative for Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium won PR-Led Content Creation. It also secured Best PR Team of the Year – In-house. Eleven’s work for Mastercard and particularly on the finance company’s first wheelchair ballkid campaign made it the winner of the Corporate Social Responsibility category. Eleven was also named PR Agency of the Year – Large. PR Agency of the Year - Boutique/Small and PR Agency of the

Coolwell at the ABC. (Photo courtesy of Wayne Coolwell Archive.)   Broadcaster Wayne Coolwell, who was born in Brisbane in 1956, has sadly passed away, leaving behind a rich legacy of photography, sports reporting and Aboriginal coverage.  National Indigenous Radio Service’s reporter Rhianna Patrick has put together a moving and comprehensive report on Coolwell’s life and achievements, which you can read here.  In 1990, Coolwell became the inaugural presenter of ABC Radio’s national Indigenous program, Speaking Out, which continues to broadcast weekly and will celebrate its 35th year on air later this year. After 15 years with the national broadcaster, he left the ABC in 1999 with one of his last work commitments co-anchoring the ABC coverage of the State Funeral for former Senator, Neville Bonner. In his post ABC life, Wayne went on to set up a restaurant and catering company, the Brisbane AFL team, Murri Mavericks, Indigenous Sports Queensland, the John Newfong Medi