The publishers of the Amarillo Globe-News and the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal have both announced that they will resign, effective Friday. Globe-News publisher Les Simpson and Avalanche-Journal publisher Brandon Hughes announced their resignations to their staffs Tuesday. Both newspapers
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Is it possible to hide a quiz (questions and answers) after it has been published and students have submitted their responses?
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Michael Wolff's #1 bestseller about the Trump administration, Fire and Fury (Holt, January 2018), has been optioned by Endeavor Content. (The Hollywood Reporter). The Mark Gordon Company acquired film rights to All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose
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In 1971 The Post continued the publication of parts of a U.S. government study about the conduct and history of American involvement in Vietnam. While the U.S. didn't send fighting troops to what had been French Indochina until the Kennedy administration was in the White House, the report apparently
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The advent of spoken word open mics at clubs and cafés, along with the proliferation of Internet self-publishing, has spawned a vitriolic free-for-all by which any female with an imagined axe to grind can hop on a soapbox to spitefully harangue men in strutting, swaggering self-congratulation for being
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A number of new monetization strategies have proven to be viable opportunities for publishers. Learn whether they are prone to replace the traditional banner ad.
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Javier Dean has joined Warner/Chappell Music Spain as A&R director. Dean, known as “Chiki,” was formerly president of A&R for Sony/ATV Spain. The Madrid native's career in the music industry has also included posts at BMG Publishing and EMI Publishing. He has worked with Spanish artists and
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Book collectors, good luck in finding author-signed copies, best-sellers, and coffee-table books on art and travel at the sale this weekend at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young St. Friends of the Dallas Public Library will get first pick of thousands of books, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks and vinyl
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Shakeeka Watts is aiming to inspire African-American girls to work hard to become whatever they want in her first self-published children's book, “Dream Big.” “Being an African-American girl in today's society may have its challenges,” Watts said. “We may be faced with many difficulties such as racism,
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The novel was selected as the focus of this year's 'One Book, Many Conversations' programme for its relevance to the GU-Q community and the high quality of the writing. During her time in Qatar, Taha will also host a creative writing workshop with the GU-Q community and conduct research for her next
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee (HMH/Mariner, Apr.) – Chee traces his path to becoming a writer through such varied experiences as spending a summer in Mexico as an exchange student, working as a Tarot-deck reader, taking a writing course with Annie Dillard,
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At the time, the Bay Village Historical Society did not have a lot of money. Marvel Sebert, our Bay High School English teacher, on receiving her flyer announcing a history book being published, sent the society $1,000, and Nick Avellone, owner of Avellone's Drug Store, offered to print all of our pictures
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Now, this idea of a book entitled, Collections. In the days before state historical societies published historical journals, generally quarterly, they put out annual volumes publishing papers and sketches submitted by the members. Nowadays we look back at these quirky publications with bemused disdain,
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“The publishers are obviously enhancing the value and integrity of Facebook through their news and content but are not being adequately rewarded for those services,” Murdoch said in his Monday statement. He also blamed Facebook and Google's algorithms for popularizing “scurrilous news sources.”.
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A hard-boiled private eye, a glamorous blond, and a hapless drifter all sit at a bar drowning their sorrows with a shot – or two – of whiskey. It's night, the streets are wet, the shadows are long. A saxophone, trumpet and piano trio play a plaintive tune in the corner, smoke from cigarettes swirling in the
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