Posts Tagged ‘ ftc ’

Google just issued a response to the Federal Trade commission’s staff discussion draft on potential recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism . (here was my reaction). It’s a wonderful document that takes the FTC — and the news industry — to school on the First Amendment, copyright, fair use, antitrust,...
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The Federal Trade Commission has been nosing around how to save journalism and in its just-posted “staff discussion draft” on “potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism,” it makes its bias clear: The FTC defines journalism as what newspapers do and aligns itself with protecting the old power structure of media. If the...
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Apple is likely to introduce its mobile ad platform Thursday at its iPhone developer event, say sources familiar with the company's plans. Expect to hear a loud cheer from Google, Apple's former ally and current competitor.
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"Your most recent complaint raises issues of particular interest for us at this time."
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It took Google more than a year to get the go-ahead for its DoubleClick deal, much to Microsoft's delight. Will the search giant see a repeat with its plans to dump $750 million on a mobile ad company?
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Why didn't someone think of this sooner? When the FTC released guidelines mandating that bloggers fully disclose all of their "material connections" with advertisers, bloggers freaked out some. It's not that they're all corrupt, advertiser-beholden pawns; it's just, how do you do that exactly? Fortunately, illustrator Jeannine Schafer has come up with a...
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For two days this week, some of journalism's most high profile executives and experts descended upon Washington, DC, for "How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?" a workshop hosted by the FTC.

One exchange of note came...
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There’s one thing that Rupert Murdoch, Arianna Huffington, Steve Brill, and I agreed on yesterday – and and there’s probably nothing else one can imagine this group would ever find consensus around. At the two-day Federal Trade Commission “workshop” (read: hearing) that asked how journalism will “survive” (their word) in the internet age, we...
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It's been a busy season for prognosticators who examine the intersection of public policy and media. Today will be particularly hectic for them, as journalists, bloggers, public broadcasters and policy wonks pack into a session at the Federal Trade Commission to...
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Another day, another "future of journalism" panel. Actually, this one, hosted by the Federal Trade Commission, is a two-day event, which is enough time to hear from three different News Corp. executives.
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