Columnist: Mike Morgan

EVP/Executive Creative Director Britt Nolan was promoted to the US chief creative officer position left vacant since Susan Credle departed last June for FCB New York.Rich Stodda...

Will “Transformers 5” be director Michael Bay’s last “Transformers” film in the $3 billion franchise?? That’s what he told Rolling Stone. "I'm doing Transformers ......

Some 225 attendees are expected to attend the annual AAF Chicago Advertising Awards – the Chicago ADDYS — March 16 at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, presented by th...

Another first for Chicago: DOC10, a documentary film festival presented by the Chicago Media Project – the good people who bring us Good Pitch Chicago – April 1-3 at the Mus...

After a five-year hiatus, National Geographic’s monthly, hourlong “Explorer” series was relaunched and now opens with an exciting title sequence designed and produced by D...

It’s never too late for a great ad campaign to have its day in the sun. Healthcare specialist AbelsonTaylor’s “Lifeline” campaign that bowed in 2005 and introd...

NBC Universal has renewed Dick Wolf’s currently longest-running series and its most recent entrée.  Order: SVU,” filmed in New York, and “Chicago Med,” filmed here...

Explore Media, a full-service, multi-award winning South Bend-based production company, has hired Chicagoan Sarah Gitersonke as business development director. She is respon...

As of Feb. 1, Rich Stoddart will become new Chief Executive Officer of Publicis Groupe’s Leo Burnett Worldwide, a one billion euro company.Stoddart, 52, CEO / Leo Burnett Nort...

Fast-growing digital marketing agency Frequency 540 (FQ540) has brought aboard award-winning Larry Byrne as executive director/production, who’d been with Ogilvy for 14 y...

The hits just keep coming.  Fox announced it has renewed “Empire,” filming here at Cinespace Studios, for a third season at the Television Critics Association winter pr...

Sound engineer/sound designer Michael Mason of STIR Audio Post delivered high-octane sound design and effects to Milwaukee-based Jacobson Rost’s new Optima vehicle batter...

Chicago isn’t known for automotive advertising, so perhaps news that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is reportedly adding FCB and DDB to its agency roster could be the start o...

Creative editorial house Utopic — which celebrated its sixth business anniversary in December — expanded its editorial talent with the promotion of Jill DiBiase to...

Here’s a good start to the New Year of media and entertainment in Chicago.  Dick Wolf’s latest franchise, “Chicago Med,” will have an 18 episode first season, havin...

Post house Hootenanny, quite aware of the burgeoning Latino visual media market (Latinos are now 17% of the US population) is representing Buenos Aires-based editor, Roberto Bra...

Chicago earns its close-up at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, with premieres of the feature “Southside with You,” about Michelle and Barack Obama’s first date and Media P...

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has hired Burrell Communications to assist in focusing on African American voters, targeting their concerns and issues as Clinton moves f...

Thursday night’s Annual AICP Show: "The Art & Technique of the American Commercial," as it’s formally designated, always bows June at New York’s Museum of Modern ...

“Radical Grace,” the critically acclaimed feature documentary from director Rebecca Parrish of Interchange Productions, backed by actress Susan Sarandon, is partnering with ...