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Getting it right

The News & Record corrects errors in its news columns that come to its attention. It also publishes appropriate clarifications. Please call 336-373-7052 to report items that need correction. ***. The North American International Auto Show in Detroit began Sunday. The date was listed incorrectly in a story
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Mark Zuckerberg Lost $3.3 Billion After Announcing Changes To Facebook's News Feed

Facebook said its new ranking system would hurt non-advertising content from publishers and brands, like news stories and viral video posts, but not change the ranking of advertising that has been paid for. That will leave businesses that want publicity on Facebook no choice but to spend more on
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You must write your own resume

In placement season, every single student in college is writing and preparing for interviews for securing jobs. One of the most important things to understand is the role of a resume and why you yourself should write your resume. Of course, we also recognise that now-a-days online forms are being used
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Facebook punks partners again; how publishers can fight back

“Google and Facebook have positioned themselves at the front of this demand curve by being the ad publishers with some of the best-in-class targeting abilities in the digital ad market. With Facebook being able to provide targeting based upon consumer interests and Google capitalizing on where those
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Get the smell right

When the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014, the apprehension in academic publishers' minds that sales of liberal and Left books might suffer was offset by the assumption that the economy would flourish and keep them happy. Also, since no one in the new regime was likely to be interested
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Cairo International Book Fair to honor Egyptian author Abdel Rahman Al-Sharkawi

This year, only two African publishers have chosen to participate in the fair: Sudan and Somalia. However, it is not just about browsing and choosing books. This year's theme is soft power. With that, the event will be recognizing some of the prominent characters in shaping the soft power of Egyptian
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Focus Montreal: January 13

Shepard insists he knew nothing about the allegations before Monday. Award-winning novelist and former Concordia student Heather O'Neill went public with her own story of sexual harassment in the creative writing department when she was a graduate student there in the 1990s. O'Neill joined senior
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Less Kurdish books published last year amid Turkey crackdown

There are over a dozen Kurdish publishing houses in Turkey, a majority of them so far evading an increasing government crackdown on civil society, cultural institutes, and the media. One of them, the Istanbul-based Avesta released only 13 books last year, not even half of those it published in the two
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Faulkner Society celebrates Rosemary James and Joe DeSalvo at surprise soiree

The cocktail hour proceeded as usual, with music from Fruta Brutal, led by Martin Better, and the announcement of the winners of the Faulkner – Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and the ALIHOT (A Legend in His/Her Own Time): Gold Medal winners included: Timothy Jay Smith, novel; Dave Barnette
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Creativity key driver of development, says Bodour

TUNIS: Sheikha Bodour Bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Founder and President of the Emirates Publishers Association (EPA), moderated a discussion panel at the fourth edition of the Arab Publishers Association Conference, which was held in Tunis recently. The panel saw a host of writers and publishing
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An ugly affair

Regional publishers feel that ever since the World Book Fair has turned into an annual affair, it has lost its appeal. It is more or less the same books one finds every year. Amidst the huge rush at the stalls of prominent publishing houses like Penguin and Harper Collins in English or Rajkamal Publications
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Is This Science Hacker a Heroine or a Villain?

But Sci-Hub was radical because it was free to anyone with an internet connection, threatening to disrupt the research publishing industry, which holds its copyrighted material behind a paywall. And it all started as a self-serving project. “When I was a student in Kazakhstan University, I did not have
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'The Immortalists' embraces mysteries of mortality

I've had a very strong passion to write since I was very young. I always felt this was my purpose. In high school I wrote by myself and only started taking writing classes in college. Next was a series of creative writing workshops. During my senior year, I applied for MFA in creative writing that brought me to
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Devour Indy offers giveaways

Faith Toole writes a Faith on Food column for Current Publishing's sister publications, Hendricks County Icon and Southside Times. Current readers who like or follow Faith on Food on Facebook will be able to enjoy Devour Indy giveaways. The drawing will be at 10 a.m. Jan. 19. Readers can share their
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