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LONDON - Nielsen Media Research has joined forces with sister internet research company Nielsen//NetRatings in an attempt to improve online advertising measurement. The partnership will boost Nielsen Media Research's coverage to almost 600 websites. Combining Nielsen//NetRatings' AdRelevance data with Nielsen Media Research's expenditure system, clients will be able to obtain improved information...

An eye-tracking study conducted by the Nielsen/Norman Group finds Internet users avoid viewing banner ads. Text advertising is read more often than display ads, according to the research. Banner blindness means Internet users focus on the content on a page and ignore the advertisements. This is especially true for bright, flashing ads, and other units that are not relevant to what the user is...

Much of what people in modern societies know about the world beyond their direct experience comes from the media. To the extent that news content is believed, it helps shape the society, culture and politics. Since media plays an important role in creating a context for social and political action, right to know remains significantly important to serve the society and the public best. The right to...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Sweden's foreign minister urged Somalia's authorities to speedily investigate the slaying last week of a Swedish journalist at an Islamist rally in Mogadishu and deplored the violence that has shaken the African nation, according to comments published Monday. Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson condemned the fatal shooting of veteran cameraman Martin Adler, and said that he has...

The mother of a Ukrainian journalist slain nearly six years ago still doubts that a body in the morgue is that of her son, Heorhiy Gongadze, and will continue to refuse burial, a Ukrainian newspaper reported Monday. Gongadze, who wrote about high-level corruption on an Internet news site, was abducted in 2000. A beheaded body - identified by government authorities as his after numerous forensic...

New York, June 26, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores today’s decision by an Egyptian court to sentence two journalists to a year in prison for publishing a report critical of President Hosni Mubarak, his family, and other top officials. The court in Al-Warrak, north of Giza, sentenced Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the independent weekly Al-Dustour, and Sahar Zaki, a reporter for the...

The following is a letter Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, has sent to readers who have written to him about The Times's publication of information about the government's examination of international banking records: I don't always have time to answer my mail as fully as etiquette demands, but our story about the government's surveillance of international banking records has...

I had the rare occasion, for me, of talking with a group of congressmen last week in Washington, and as our session broke up, I changed the subject abruptly. I asked, "Could you stop the present administration from locking up reporters?" They chuckled. The request was baldly self-serving, since I often write stories that concern national security. Perhaps they also regarded my concern as far...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Americans talk about the British Invasion, they often mean the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. A new wave is on its way, but from Fleet Street. In the last month, several venerated British news operations, including the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC.UL: Quote, Profile, Research), The Times of London, the Guardian newspaper and the Economist magazine unveiled plans to...

It's that man again: Sir Martin Sorrell, advertising mogul, media guru, the thinking man's Alan Sugar - or (as he would charmingly add) 'the poor man's Warren Buffett'. This time Sorrell is on his feet at a Newspaper Society conference designed to hymn the wonders of the local press, which he does in amiable if abbreviated fashion. But really he wants to talk 'legacy businesses' and 'verticals'...