Behavioural ads form of ‘free speech’, says Newspaper Association of America
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) has weighed in on the debate surrounding behavioural targeting of newspaper ads online, saying privacy standards proposed by the US’ Federal Trade Commission...
View ArticleStinkyjournalism.org: Time Warner comes under fire for Greg Gumbel infomercials
Stinky Journalism has unraveled a tangled web involving CNN, its parent company Time Warner, an anchor for a rival broadcaster and infomercials run without proper identification, as required by the...
View ArticleAP: FTC to monitor blogs for ‘tainted reviews’
The US’ Federal Trade Commission is extending is monitoring of reviews of products and services to blogs. New guidelines expected to come into force this summer will expand the body’s remit to...
View ArticleNew FTC rules: US bloggers must disclose payments for reviews
As reported by the Associated Press, the Federal Trade Commission in the US will try to regulate blogging for the first time, ‘requiring writers on the web to clearly disclose any freebies or payments...
View ArticleFishbowl NY: Americans reject taxpayer-funded journalism idea
A survey conducted by Ramussen Reports suggests that 84 per cent of Americans oppose a Federal Trade Commission proposal to prop up the ailing newspaper industry with a three per cent tax on mobile...
View ArticleNYTimes.com: FTC’s journalism study could ‘sidestep’ making recommendations
The New York Times updates its readers on the US Federal Trade Commission’s public forums on journalism and how to save it, the last of which will take place this week. The commission is expected to...
View ArticleDan Gillmor at Salon: ‘The newspaper industry essentially deserves to die’
I love newspapers. I worked in them for almost 25 years. But I’m not itching to bail out a business that is failing in large part because it was so transcendentally greedy in its monopoly era that it...
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