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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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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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Four years ago, I wrote about a toolcalled Drund,which at the time aspired to be a web application management system, a virtual desktop that would cut through the clutter of your daily life. This month, Drund is going to launch for the public again, but this time instead ofmanaging web systems, the company is betting on managing social systems.

The social media sites we think about most often Facebook, Twitter Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest have found their business model works best in a system of dispersed control and either publicness or semi-privacy. It makes sense, especially when you consider the word most important during the rise of those companies: Scale. Its hard (impossible?) to scale when there is a central control system.

The problem for a lot of groups think school districts, leadership teams, private clubs is that dispersed control can mean putting out too many fires. For these groups,scale is not the goal but identity might be. There are ways to be pretty private on Facebook, for instance, but its a little harder to filter a conversation before it has started and its even less likely you can build a social brand that doesnt feel like Facebook.

Drund has a different way to approaching these needs. The slogan does a nice job of explaining it: Real ownership, easy to use controls and the tools you need to get the results you want from your community. Scale is not the goal for Drund, at least not for any one social site. They are building sites that have dense value, or enough value to the group that they are willing to pay for the ownership, privacy and control. These group decides whether its site will have ads (Drund does not sell data) they willearn revenue from the sales. These sites might allow for unfiltered posting, but they could change that later. Some aspects of the content might go public, some might never see past the walls.

Founder Lee Yi has been the driving force behind both launches and he says hes learned a lot in the past four years, but the lessons have encompassed less about technology and more about human nature in digital spaces. So when he launchesthe new product this month, dont expect a turnkey experience. Yi wants to train users how to create this kind of community, because he says the technology is only the beginning of the process.

It has been my goal the past few years to avoid talking to leaders about their products, and focus instead on users. I dont claim to know whether Drund isa solution for real ownership of social media, but in our conversation, Yisinsights into a shifting social media foundationwere too valuable to pass up. In this Q&A (developed iteratively on a shared document) we discuss the difficulties of building a community, how different needs shape technology and vice versa and what success looks like early in an entrepreneurial endeavor.

You mentioned in our talk that building a community is extremely difficult and I wonder if you could talk about what the main barriers are to that.

We learned that building communities meant dealing with groups of people not individuals. That means a lot of different motivations, passive and active resistance, agendas, timelines, personalities, levels of technology comfort, and cultures. One of our first large communities was a public K-12 school district, where you have many different cultures within one organization. Public schools have so many different responsibilities and influences that it is very hard to provide a single solution for so many different needs. They have a complex and difficult communication environment because they are dealing with other peoples children, diverse economic and cultural backgrounds, tax levies & budget issues, federal and state mandates and many other issues. Public education communities presented us with a significant challenge because building one district level community to centralize all of the different locations, cultures and people while working with limited time availability was extremely difficult.

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