Sir Ray Tindle is perhaps the most influential media mogul you've never heard of and at the age of 91 he is certainly the oldest. Throat cancer and a stroke have left their mark on the accomplished newspaper publisher – “I can't speak and I can't hear,” he says by way of an opening apology, “but I get by”
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After posting disappointing holiday results, Barnes & Noble instituted a round of layoffs yesterday that it says will save the company $40 million annually. After CNBC reported Monday that the retailer fired “lead cashiers and digital leads,” a B&N spokesperson confirmed the layoffs, but declined to give
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Feb. 13, 2018 / PRZen / MILWAUKEE — Write, Pitch, Publish: The Innovative Writers Conference, a Milwaukee-area literary full-day conference designed to provide support and insight to up-and-coming writers, this week announced the conference will officially take place on April 7th in Milwaukee,
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Please read these Publisher's Accepting Unsolicited Manuscript Submissions. PLEASE NOTE. We publish fiction, poetry, One of the outstanding literary publishers of Carcanet considers submissions and book proposals Our list concentrates on poetry. “List of Poetry Publishers That Accept Submissions.
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Eventually the idea is to include AMP Stories in Google search results, but for now people can find them by going to this link on their mobile device and searching for one of the participating publishers. The search will turn up the usual results, plus a section of “visual stories” from that publisher.
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Every year an estimated 2,000 NEIU students enroll in one of the university's writing intensive courses (WIP) to meet their academic writing requirement. Dr. Kate Hahn, Director of the CAW, says that 1000 students per semester take a WIP course. Academic writing pertains to the language, style and
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Search engine giant Google LLC on Tuesday is stepping up its efforts to transform the way the web works, as it introduces a new technology that allows publishers to create stories in a format similar to those of social media apps Snapchat and Instagram. The Menlo Park-based company is introducing a
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Harvard's English faculty hosts a powerhouse of acclaimed creative writers. As lecturers and professors, they devote countless hours to passing on the skills of their craft to students. The Crimson asked four faculty members who teach fiction-writing classes to share their creative writing wisdom. “You can
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