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A Colby Taps Hall as Media Director
LOS ANGELES–Tom Hall joined Colby Effler & Partners as vp, media director. Hall will manage media planning and buying for most accounts at the Santa Monica, Calif., agency. Hall has worked at agencies including Suissa Miller, Bozell, Rubin Postaer and Associates, DDB and FCB.
A Asher Out of Anti-Smoking Review
LOS ANGELES–Asher & Partners, Los Angeles, has been cut from the California Department of Health Services’ anti-smoking review, sources said.