NEW YORK - The New York Times looks like it has been forced to put its global expansion plans, including a talked-of rebrand of the International Herald Tribune, on ice following the Jayson Blair scandal and the damage it has inflicted on the brand worldwide.
LONDON - WPP Group has acquired a 30% stake in Spanish television company Mediapro, which specialises in TV rights and programme making and was behind the recent S Club movie 'Seeing Double'.
LONDON - Fans of extreme and adventure sports have got their own television station with the launch of High.tv, which claims to be the first internet TV station with scheduled programming.
LONDON - An American web designer and hacker, who replaced the Arabic TV channel Al Jazeera's website during the Iraq war with his own message and the US flag, is to plead guilty.
LONDON - BT is rebranding its broadband service as BT Yahoo! Broadband, giving users content and features from the US internet service provider.
LONDON - The lines between news and entertainment are blurring in the US as media groups race to sign not just an interview, but an entire media package with America's most famous female soldier, Private Jessica Lynch.
LONDON - Sources close to WPP Group have revealed that despite its initial offer for Cordiant being blocked by French rival Publicis Groupe, it is working on an 'alternative' proposal.
LONDON - Bed manufacturer Silentnight has renewed its sponsorship of ITV1 drama 'Where the Heart Is' for the fourth consecutive series, in a deal believed to be worth around £500,000.
LONDON - The Evening Standard is rebranding its Monday 'Just The Job' supplement as Londonjobs.co.uk, in the wake of an 8% fall in recruitment advertising at the newspaper.
LONDON - Cinema admissions for May 2003 were £13.8m, flat on the same period last year, despite the release of 'X-Men 2' and the long-awaited and much-hyped opening of 'The Matrix Reloaded'.
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