Day: January 16, 2018

Hundreds gather at Orange County synagogue to mourn slain college student Blaze Bernstein

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Hundreds gather at Orange County synagogue to mourn slain college student Blaze Bernstein

Bernstein was eulogized as a personable, sensitive and innovative young man whose passion for gourmet cooking and writing intersected in his work … any verb, but one that means to burn fiercely and brightly,” said Jamie-Lee Josselyn, who was among Bernstein's creative writing instructors at Penn.
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Global Publishing and Subscriptions Software Market: Key vendors,,, Quality, Reliability And …

The research covers the current market size of the Global Publishing and Subscriptions Software market and its growth rates based on 5 year history data along with company profile of key players/manufacturers. The in-depth information by segments of Global Publishing and Subscriptions Software
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Charity transforms 600 lives

He got involved in a service user group and started running creative writing workshops for others like him which led on to peer mentoring schemes … by the lived experiences of its frontline team who had been able to use their own life experiences to develop the courses they ran and connect with the
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Beddow Capital Management Has Decreased By $354000 Its Denny's (DENN) Holding …

The stock of Bloomsbury Publishing plc (LON:BMY) has “Hold” rating given on Thursday, May 19 by Numis Securities. Numis Securities upgraded the shares of BMY in report on Thursday, October 27 to “Add” rating. The firm earned “Buy” rating on Thursday, May 18 by Investec. Investec maintained it
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Teen writer tells the tale of trying to make it as a professional author

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO/KJCT) — A Grand Valley teen is living his dream, one word at a time. Raphael Lucchesi recently put out a self-published book Extorris. It takes place in a fantasy world with teenagers who have been trained to be knights and fight evil creatures. Lucchesi began writing
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Birds of the same feather: The unmissable link between ad fraud and fake news

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, an assistant professor in the history of behavioral science at the Ohio State University, tells The Drum that these are good moves as the only way the world can fight fake news effectively is by uniting publishers and brands that care about the truth, and making this concern with the truth
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Tamil Nadu collects nearly 40000 books for Jaffna library

The officials were confident they could collect all the one lakh books within a month's time. “At present, the universities and educational institutions are collecting books. We expect at least few thousand books from publishers who have participated in the book fair. We are confident of collecting one lakh
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How Mark Zuckerberg's Media Divorce Could Backfire

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How Mark Zuckerberg's Media Divorce Could Backfire

Last week, after struggling to solve Facebook's fake news problem, Mark Zuckerberg abruptly pulled the plug on the co-dependent relationship his company has cultivated with media companies, writing that posts from publishers will now be de-emphasized by Facebook's algorithms. “I'm changing the
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Amazon has Honor 7X pre-orders now, sales January 25

Honor launched the $200 7X smartphone late last year on its sites worldwide and had rolled it out to a few big-name retailers in the United States in particular as well. But nothing gets people noticing a new phone like a big, bright banner on Amazon — after all, the Honor 6X and Honor 5X have
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CCA's Creative Writing Club to honor T. Greenwood with Jonathan Maberry Inspiring Teens Award

Canyon Crest Academy's Creative Writing Club recently announced that this year's Jonathan Maberry Inspiring Teens Award will be given to T. Greenwood, long-time teacher and volunteer for Words Alive, and a regular speaker at the CCA Writers' Conference. The Creative Writing Club created the
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NIC to usher a vibrant new era of entrepreneurship

Initial modules being launched touch upon the areas of Digital Literacy, marketing, freelancing, graphics design, creative writing and e-commerce management etc. The key differentiating factor of the program would be that it will utilize artificial intelligence and data driven decision making for matching
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Hungry Girl: Four Helpful Tools You In the Kitchen This Year

Lisa Lillien is the author of the popular Hungry Girl website and email newsletter, featuring smart, funny advice on guilt-free eating. She is also the author of twelve books, six of which debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Read her PEOPLE.com blog every Monday for
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Why Aspiring Journalists Should See 'The Post'

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Why Aspiring Journalists Should See 'The Post'

Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham and Execuctive Editor Ben Bradlee leave U.S. District Court in Washington June 21, 1971, happy with Judge Gerhard A. Gesell's ruling the the paper could publish further articles about a Pentagon report on Vietnam. Later however, the U.S. Court of Appeals
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Cashing in on Bob Marley's music legacy

While the family of Marley, who died in 1981 at 36, handles most aspects of his estate, Mr Blackwell controls the rights to the music publishing catalogue, including classic reggae songs such as One Love (1965). Last Saturday, Mr Blackwell signed a US$50-million deal with Primary Wave Music
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Twelfth Planet Press's Kaleidoscope imprint to publish first novel

Independent genre publishers Twelfth Planet Press will publish Kate Gordon's YA novel Thyla as the first novel under its Kaleidoscope imprint, which specialises in representing diversity in YA fiction. Thyla, which was first published by Random House Australia in 2011, is 'a thrilling paranormal tale of
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Vuong wins 2017 TS Eliot Prize

'The view of the world from this book is quite stunning.' Vuong was chosen from a shortlist of 10 and will receive a £25,000 (A$43,300) cash prize—up from £20,000 (A$34,640) last year to mark the prize's 25th anniversary. Each of the nine other shortlisted authors will receive £1500 (A$2598).
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AIB holds training on accident reporting

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AIB holds training on accident reporting

Capacity building in the aviation industry has received a boost as Nigeria's Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) plans to host a meeting of the Banjul Accord Group Accident Investigation Agency (BAGAIA). The four-day training participants on aircraft accident/incident report writing course this week.
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'KYD' announces new staff; appoints Cregan as book club coordinator

Literary magazine Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced several new staff members for 2018, including the appointment of Ellen Cregan as coordinator of KYD's First Book Club. Cregan will write regularly about the titles chosen for First Book Club, which focuses on work by debut Australian authors.
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Podcast: Apple's battery slow-down miss-step may be the result of changing culture

S. Chris Edmonds, Speaker & executive consultant, Author of Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading at a Higher Level, speaks with Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication, about the Apple decision to solve an old battery issue by slowing down the phones to keep the
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Print book volume down by 4% in Canada in 2017

Print book sales in Canada have declined in 2017, with print book volume down by four percent and value down by three percent compared to 2016 figures. According to a report published by BookNet Canada, Canadian publishers sold 51.5 million print books in 2017 for just over C$1 billion (A$1.01
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160 years ago, the BND was first published. Times have changed, our mission has not.

Oct. 2, 1883: First edition of the Belleville News-Democrat after News Publishing Co. buys Belleville Democrat. December 1891: Fred Kern and Fred Kraft buys Belleville Democrat. Dec. 24, 1898: Fire destroys News-Democrat building on Public Square. It moves to 120 S. Illinois St. Feb. 4, 1926: City
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Facebook Changes News Algorithm, Email Offers More Manageable Alternative

Whereas advertisers are at the whim of any algorithmic changes that companies like Facebook or Google choose to implement, email marketing is a direct conduit from a publisher to consumer, managed by the publisher. Email marketing is also more effective at generating engagement when compared
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Exclusive: Falcona signs Melbourne's Maribelle following global publishing deal

Over the last few years, one of the most distinctive and alluring voices in the Aussie music scene has been that of Maribelle. Now, following a steady rise in popularity, the Melbourne producer and singer-songwriter has signed with Sydney boutique music management agency Falcona. Having gained a
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