Roslyn pitches new electives for middle, high school students

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Roslyn pitches new electives for middle, high school students

Roslyn junior Estee Sharabani took a writing enrichment course with Capozzi in eighth grade, which featured TED talk Friday, and wanted to continue with similar studies in high school. The two developed the idea for the elective, which Cabat said was an easy replacement for the district's waning public
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Songwriters, Publishers to Receive Increased Royalties from Music Streaming Services

Songwriters and publishers are set to receive increased royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, and other music streaming services, following a ruling. According to Ars Technica, “The mechanical royalty rates from streaming—royalties paid out to songwriters and publishers, as distinct from those paid out to
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Gearing up for the workforce on social media

While career guidance workshops are generally held on an ad-hoc basis, Career Catalyst is held over a span of 12 weeks. And more than just teaching basic skills in resume writing, the course gears students up to tackle a digitised future. Course instructors encourage students to beef up online profiles
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Former Friendship woman writes young adult book

Over the years she has lived for long periods of time in Florida, Allegany, Friendship and Warren, Pa., where she now resides. Along the way she met Andrea Schoenthal, who invited her to join the now defunct Creative Writers of the Southern Tier. Through that organization she took part in many writing
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Facebook's focusing on local in the news feed. Local newsrooms are 'cautiously optimistic, with the …

“I'm cautiously optimistic, with the emphasis on the caution,” said Robyn Tomlin, Dallas Morning News' managing editor and soon-to-be regional editor for McClatchy's Carolina newsrooms. “I think most publishers are feeling whiplash from the flurry of changes being announced. I'd like to believe that the
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Caitec Combines Featherland and Paradise Bird Brands

Major retail buyers are discovering that our products are best sellers in the bird category and can reinvigorate their bird sets.” The new Featherland Paradise brand look will be featured in leading trade publications to help buyers become aware of the brand and packaging changes. The new packaging
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Ensure history, science are not tampered with, Mamata urges publishers

As a citizen of the country I would request the publishers to keep an eye on the books that are being published, so that no one can tamper our history or scientific endeavours,” Banerjee said during her speech. Terming books as the window of one's mind, she said the book fair is one of the most-awaited
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JK Rowling's Shared Her Writing Plan On Twitter, And There's An Actual Color-Coding System

Throughout the years, J.K. Rowling has delighted fans on social media by sharing Harry Potter lore, thoughtful writing advice, and personal stories meant to inspire readers … As it turns out, Rowling's writing plan involves a color-coding system. … Of course he won't, which is why this condition is healthy.
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BMW M550i production for European customers stops for several months

The new BMW M550i is one of the best sellers among the M Performance cars, but, at least in Europe, hardly a single BMW M550i xDrive will be sold in the second half of 2018. The production of the G30 5 Series with the V8 TwinTurbo and 462 hp will be interrupted for several months at the end of May,
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Rod Doss Honored with 2018 NNPA Publisher Lifetime Achievement Award

For 50 years, Rod Doss has remained dedicated to the New Pittsburgh Courier and his success has been among the more celebrated of Black Press publishers. Doss received the National Newspaper Publishers Association's 2018 NNPA Publisher Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony in Las
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BOMBORA Publishers

BOMBORA Publishers (former Eksmo Non-Fiction) being a part of the leading Publishing Group in Russia is recognized for high standard content that comes in a var…
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Streaming Royalty Rates for Songwriters Get Significant Boost

Variety reports that the new streaming rates represent a jump of 43.8 percent — an increase touted as “the biggest rate increase granted in CRB history” by David Israelite, president and CEO of the National Music Publishers' Association. “Crucially, the decision also allows songwriters to benefit from
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Judith Curr Out at Simon & Schuster

S&S praised Curr for the achievements she made at the publisher. Reidy called Curr “smart, creative, personable, and always keen to try out new ideas and methods of publishing.” Curr was also, Reidy added, “deeply committed to bringing new and underserved voices to readers” and “a true champion
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Getting Audiences to Pay When Everyone's Behind the Paywall

In the rapidly-changing digital publishing industry, publishers who thrived on ad revenue now find themselves fighting for scraps from Facebook and Google. As a result, an industry once skeptical of paywalls is now building them by the dozen. Fortunately, audiences are more willing to pay for digital
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