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    AT&T Mobility CMO David Christopher named Ad Council board chair

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    NEW YORK --

    David Christopher, chief marketing officer of AT&T Mobility, has been named chair of the board of directors of the Ad Council. He succeeds Laura Desmond, global CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group. Christopher will be board chair through June 2016 when he will be succeeded by David Kenny, chairman and CEO of The Weather Company.

    “David Christopher is a thought leader in the communications industry, particularly in marketing and the ever-changing digital world,” said Lisa Sherman, president and CEO of the Ad Council.

    Christopher joined the Ad Council board in 2010 and became a member of the executive committee in July 2011. Among his many contributions to the Ad Council, Christopher helped spearhead the 2012 New York anti-truancy PSA campaign, created in partnership with the Bloomberg administration. Targeting chronic absenteeism, the campaign was the largest ever city-wide effort to inform parents that students who routinely miss school are more likely to drop out and offered a wide range of resources to help parents keep their kids on track. The campaign received donated media through New York City and more than 40 percent of parents reported seeing the PSAs.

    “Serving the Ad Council means a great deal to me because of the power it has to affect change on our most pressing social issues,” said Christopher. “With such a strong board and management team, I am confident we will continue the Ad Council’s tradition of outstanding work.”

    Christopher has served as CMO for AT&T Mobility since 2004, and leads all marketing for AT&T’s 120M-plus customer wireless business. He is responsible for the company’s extensive portfolio of wireless products and services, including voice and data plans, smartphones, tablets, wearables and cloud products, as well as marketing and advertising for AT&T’s connected home platform, AT&T Digital Life, and the company’s prepaid brands, Cricket Wireless and GoPhone. Christopher also oversees the AT&T Developer Program and its more than 55,000 members, leading the team that determines and delivers the APIs, tools and training developers need to build new and innovative platforms. He is on the Facebook and Twitter client councils and is a member of the Marketing 50. In 2014, he was named to Forbes’ 50 Most Influential CMOs list.

    With Christopher’s election, the Ad Council will continue its ongoing tradition of rotating board chairs every year between the organization’s founding sectors: media companies, advertising agencies and corporate advertisers.

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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