Cutting Room, NY has added budding editor Jamie Connors to its roster. He comes to Cutting Room after serving as an in-house editor at McCann Erickson, where he cut campaigns for such clients as Verizon FIOS, MasterCard, Sony Ericsson and Joe’s Crab Shack. Connors brings an in-depth perspective on agency processes and sharp instincts as an editor that allow him to cut a wide variety of styles. Upcoming work out of Cutting Room includes a Dentyne campaign out of McCann Erickson.
Brooklyn-native Connors earned a degree in Communications at Goucher College before returning to the city, where he landed an internship at McCann Erickson. His six years as an editor at the agency allowed him to work on a number of award-winning campaigns, collaborating with top directors.
U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.
The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.
Here's what it all means:
What is the Justice Department's goal?
Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.
"The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."
Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."
It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More
