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The establishment of a Code of Practice for Jamaican journalists and media organisations as well as a Complaints Commission to adjudicate on complaints against journalists, as in other countries including the United Kingdom which has a Code of Practice and Complaints Commission, is now being considered. The Press Association of Jamaica, the national organisation of journalists, already has a Code...

MANY MEDIA BUYERS AND PLANNERS rely on ad networks more heavily today than two years ago, according to a new study by ValueClick Media/FastClick. The report was based on an August survey of 300 media executives, conducted online by Insight Express using members of the MediaPost advisory panel. Forty-two percent of media buyers and planners who use ad networks said they spent more with such...

America's super-rich believe extravagant personalities such as Donald Trump and Paris Hilton are giving them a bad name, according to a survey of the country's wealthiest families. The study, which focused on 500 families with average liquid net assets of $28m (€23.3m, £15.8m), found 69 per cent of respondents thought wealthy people were portrayed negatively or somewhat negatively in the media...

PARIS: The European Commission formally proposed broadcasting rules Tuesday that could impose new standards for online companies and shake up advertising standards by allowing product placements. The proposals, which many interest groups have criticized, are years away from approval, as they face major tests before the European Parliament and must also be approved by the European Union's 25...

Police arrested three photographers who were covering a white supremacist demonstration and counter-demonstration in Toledo, Ohio, on Saturday. The photographers say they were arrested without warning, held for several hours along with the handful of demonstrators who were arrested, charged and released. One of the photographers says when police returned his camera, the memory card had been either...

The ad business has had a long-standing love affair with India. Since the mid-1990s, global ad agencies have been steadily buying up local shops, and today the four giant conglomerates that dominate world advertising also control 96% of India's ad market. So that should mean their buying spree is over, right? Wrong. Lately all four have been prowling the streets of Bombay and Delhi for ancillary...

On Monday, in one of his now-weekly appearances on cable news defending the latest Wikipedia scandal, the project's figurehead Jimmy 'Jimbo' Wales expressed his desire to find the anonymous internet user who had libeled John Seigenthaler. Seigenthaler, a former Robert Kennedy aide and newspaper editor wrote about his anguish a fortnight ago, describing how an edit to his Wikipedia biography...

To improve the audience of Microsoft's Internet search engine, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates suggests using cash and various freebees as a lure. A Microsoft spokesperson adds that it's a possible service, but that Microsoft has no plans to introduce it. When a startup like Newsvine Inc., an online distributor of user-generated news, offers outright bribery to attract attention, it's one thing...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- It’s been a year since Yahoo CEO Terry Semel hired Lloyd Braun, former head of ABC Entertainment Television Group, to bring his Hollywood sensibilities to the portal and create what that new head of media said would be the Web’s own "I Love Lucy" moment. So far, it is a moment waiting to happen. News initiative As leader of the Yahoo media group, Mr. Braun has made a stab...

Everyone trying to lose weight should know that the trick is to cut fat and not muscle. This is not a lesson media companies have learned. Last month, Private Capital Management, a $32-billion money management firm, issued a sell-or-be-gone ultimatum to the board of Knight Ridder, the second largest newspaper proprietor in the land. And Knight Ridder has just received preliminary takeover bids...