New Chairman for Advertising Standards Authority
Tuesday 25 March 2008
New Chairman for Advertising Standards Authority
The new Chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority is Lincoln Gould, Chief Executive of the Newspaper Publishers’ Association (NPA). Mr Gould has been a member of the Authority since 2001, and was appointed Deputy Chairman in 2007.
The ASA has elected Rick Osborne,
the Chief Executive of the Communications Agencies
Association of New Zealand (CAANZ) as Deputy
Chairman.
The Advertising Standards Authority is the
self-regulatory body responsible for advertising standards
in New Zealand across all media. It also administers the
Advertising Standards Complaints Board, which provides a
free complaints service for the public to complain about
advertising.
The following organisations are members of
the ASA.
Association of New Zealand Advertisers,
Communication Agencies Association of New Zealand,
Interactive Advertising Bureau of New Zealand, Letterbox
Media Association, Magazine Publishers' Association (Inc),
Newspaper Publishers' Association of New Zealand (Inc), New
Zealand Cinema Advertising Council, New Zealand Community
Newspapers Association, New Zealand Marketing Association
(Inc), New Zealand Post, New Zealand Television
Broadcasters’ Council, Outdoor Advertising Association of
New Zealand, Pay TV Group and Radio Broadcasters’
Association (Inc)
(For more details see www.asa.co.nz)
ENDS