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The "Media Industries Transparency Initiative" (MITI) aims to foster openness and accountability in news businesses. It also aims to establish standards for transparency and information disclosure in the media sector in order to boost the public trust and acceptance among stakeholders.

MITI is the first initiative under the Partnership Against Corruption for Thailand (PACT) network designed to expand anti-corruption practices throughout the supply chain of a specific industry.

The Thaipat Institute, an organisation dedicated to corporate responsibility, will be a convenor for the PACT, while NMG will be the media partner of the network.

Pipat Yodprudtikan, director of the Thaipat Institute, said the PACT network began its mission with the creation of an action-oriented platform. To be in line with internationally recognised principles and guidelines, the platform is designed to facilitate the implementation of anti-graft policies and measures in industry-specif?ic targets.

"The launch of the PACT network will be a major milestone in fighting against corruption in Thailand," he said, noting that opposing corruption had been made a hot issue by Thai society and put on the national agenda.

"We need to lay down a strong infrastructure at this moment to ensure that such anti-corruption practices will be successful," he said.

Pipat said the PACT network brought together business organisations and associations from various fields, including the media, retail, insurance and service industries, such as the financial and banking sectors, through their shared goal of combating corruption.

Under this network, they will pursue action-oriented guidelines and measures, from declaring their commitment to fight graft, to formulating anti-corruption mechanisms and processes in their organisations before expanding such practices further to their business partners and those within their supply chain.

"In the media industry, the border between editorial and business becomes blurred. It also allows investment groups to take control over the management of a media organisation and to have a certain level of impact on editorial work," Pipat said.

All listed companies and business organisations are welcome to join the PACT network. More information, including a how-to manual on "Anti-Corruption in Practice" launched by the Thaipat Institute, is available at http://www.pact.network.

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Milwaukee's Summerfest music festival draws an audience of about 900,000 people a year. But now it's looking to expand its audience to people watching away from the crowds and on their couches.

Summerfest has partnered with the Los Angeles company Live Media Group to live-stream the festival on the Web so that viewers at home can see headliners such as Kings of Leon, Linkin Park and Florida Georgia Line perform.

Music festivals have previously been available to online viewers through platforms such as YouTube and Ustream. But Live Media Group -- which does the behind-the-scenes work on streamed events -- is hoping music fans will flock to the see the shows through its app, with "grid view" technology that allows users to preview videos of multiple performancesand choose which one to watch.

"The frustration was that, with music festivals, you've got four stages going on at once," said LMG Chief Executive Brad Sexton, who founded the company in 2008. "The festivals and users wanted user control and multiple feedsthroughout the experience."

This isn't the first time the company -- headquarteredin Van Nuys with 23 full-time employees -- has been involved in the live music space. It has also produced the live streams for Live Nation and Yahoo's yearlong concert series, with one show every day.

The shows in the 365 series included concertsby the likes of Aerosmith, Usher and Lady Gaga, though the companies have not said how many people watched the concerts.

To broadcast the shows, the company employs a crew of freelancers to do the camera and audio work. Producing the live stream for Summerfest will require 18 to 22 TV cameras, LMG said.

LMG started as a production company working with Hollywood movie studios on their film events.Recently, it worked on the live stream of the Independent Spirit Awards red carpet and the "Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1" premiere.

It has also done previous work on music festivals including New Orleans Jazz Fest and Tortuga Music Festival.

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By Jason Abbruzzese2015-03-10 00:05:25 UTC

If you buy an Apple Watch, National Public Radio, CNN, The New York Times and ESPN hope to get a little bit more of your time.

Wearables have been seen as a a bit of a conundrum for media organizations. They're a new form of media distribution but the amount of information you can distribute is extremely limited.

This has left media companies looking for ways to provide users with information in smaller, personalized doses that can then be elaborated upon by request. That translates to a focus on notifications and personalization for CNN's new app., said CNN Chief Product Officer Alex Wellen. "When you design something, it's about looking at the canvas you have," he said. "We knew that there was nothing more personal, as Tim Cook said, than a device that's right up against your skin."

CNN's app allows users to personalize 12 categories that control what news and notifications appear on the watch. The app is also meant to be a gateway to CNN's content online and on television. Users will be able to explore news topics that start as a watch notification and continue onto their smartphones for richer content like live video, Wellen said.

It would seem that for now no organization is publishing full stories to the watch, opting instead for short snippets. The New York Times noted in its app description that Apple Watch users will be able to scroll through photos and a lead-in to each story. Each app appears to want to drive users to their smartphones for longer text and video.

Ryan Spoon, ESPN's head of product development, echoed Wellen's thoughts. The company's app will also prominently feature notifications and personalization, he said.

This is not new territory for ESPN. The sports media giant already sends billions of notifications a month, Spoon noted, and features personalization in its apps that allow users to quickly access scores of their favorite teams.

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Yemen #39;s warring factions fight over media control
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