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Wiley's New Ethics Guidelines Reveal Importance of Collaboration in Defending Ethical Publishing

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has reaffirmed its commitment to defending and promoting ethical publishing with the launch of its Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics: A Publisher's Perspective. Second Edition. Wiley was the first major publisher to produce such guidelines in 2006, and the newly revised and updated edition sets a new benchmark for the highest standards of ethical publishing, offering clear and practical guidance to journal editors and society partners.

"As the publishing partner of over 800 prestigious societies, representing more than two million members globally, Wiley is uniquely placed to play a leading role in defending the highest standards of publishing ethics," said Steve Miron, Senior Vice President, Global Research, Wiley.


Getty Images unveils innovative embed feature for sharing of tens of millions of images

New embedded viewer will provide easy, legal access to Getty Images' imagery for non-commercial use

Global digital media company Getty Images today announces, for the first time, the ability for people to easily embed and share its imagery - at no cost - for non-commercial use on websites, blogs and social media channels through a new embed tool.

ACLJ Calls Obama Administration Targeting Newsrooms 'Dangerous' - Part Of Ongoing 'Assault' On The Constitution

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which focuses on constitutional law, said a proposal by the Obama Administration to monitor newsrooms across the country is extremely dangerous and amounts to an unprecedented assault of the First Amendment and the freedom of the press.

The FCC is reported to be eyeing a proposal that would send government researchers into newsrooms to determine how news organizations decide which stories to run.

Computer arranges pictures based on their artistic aspects

Until now, it has been a time-consuming process for a program to arrange pictures in a consistent order. It is even more complex to order them on the basis of visual characteristics. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken have developed a system to arrange pictures into a consistent order. It requires no more than a small number of pre-sorted example pictures. Operators of online portals or museums could use this technique, for example, to arrange complex datasets. The computer scientists show their system at the computer expo Cebit from the 10th until the 14th of March in Hanover (hall 9, booth E13).

Amazon Hiring Now: Creates 2,500 Full-Time Jobs with Comprehensive Benefits Across its U.S. Fulfillment Network

In 2013, Amazon Hired More Than 20,000 Employees into Full-Time Jobs at its U.S. Fulfillment Centers; More Than Half of Those Hired Started as Seasonal Employees

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it is hiring for more than 2,500 new, full-time jobs across its growing U.S. fulfillment network. Median pay inside Amazon fulfillment centers is 30 percent higher than traditional retail jobs.

Consortium of Advertisers and Publishers Leverage Technology and Consumer Insights to Create Powerful, Multicultural Advertising Exchange

Huddled Masses Media, powered by MediaMath, The Cipher Group and The NorthStar Group are pleased to announce the first-ever private multicultural advertising exchange. This opt-in program gives publishers control of their inventory, a user interface, creative and optimization efficiencies, scale and data components, all to the benefit of brands and agencies.

"Huddled Masses is proud to provide the technology and expertise required to empower The Cipher Group, The NorthStar Group, and their team so that all multicultural agencies, clients and publishers have access to this wonderful new offering," says Huddled Masses CEO Charles Cantu.

Race is on to Register .shabaka Domain Names

.shabaka domain names are now available for purchase by the general public. Interested registrants are encouraged to act quickly to secure the best domain names.

Arabic-speaking Internet users around the world now have access to a new corner of the Internet completely dedicated to their native language following the official general public launch this week of .shabaka, the world's first Arabic cross-border Top-Level Domain.

Hyperlocal journalism: Axel Springer Academy launches zoom-berlin.com

The Axel Springer Academy, Germany's most modern school of journalism, has launched an online experiment involving hyperlocal journalism: For the first time ever on www.zoom-berlin.com, twenty young journalists place one single street in the focus of their journalistic offerings: Berlin's Oranienstrasse. Under the motto "The city. A street. Your life." they report on the people who live there, examine the historic past of the street in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg, explain the problems facing the street today, and, via Facebook, Twitter and their own blog, invite their users to develop visions for the future of the street along with the editorial office.


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