Interviews with public-relations men, book publishers, management experts, and advertising men.
In April, O'Brien engineered the ousting of chief executive Gavin O'Reilly, whose family control about 13% of INM, and on Friday scathingly criticised the publisher's management through a proxy at the AGM.
Just three years into her tenure, the first female editor of the New York Times was forced out because of what the publisher called management issues in the newsroom.
Wellknown for his integrity and resourcefullness, he represented not only the eminent, but also aided unknown composers and musicians who were being exploited by unscrupulous music publishers and management.
So far, 250 companies have signed up, including employees working for Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music, as well as independent labels, publishers and management companies.
And with flexible APIs, the system is designed to work with publishers' existing content management systems and publishing workflows, according to Amara co-founder and executive director Nicholas Reville.
The trade and consumer magazines group, publisher of Campaign, Management Today and Stuff, made a pre-tax profit of £13.9m for 2003, down from £15.2m the previous year.
Shareholders of VNU who oppose a 7.5 billion-euro ($9.1 billion) takeover bid for the Dutch publisher blasted its management and supervisory boards and predicted the deal is bound to fail during an unruly meeting Tuesday.
They plan on building out the network to a self serve model, but haven't finished the publisher and advertiser management tools.
In a statement posted Monday evening, the White Stripes wrote: "We believe our song was re-recorded and used without permission of the White Stripes, our publishers, label or management.
