6, the publisher announced Wednesday, calling him a “renaissance man of publishing.” He was 84. During his 31 years with IVP, Sire also wrote more than 20 books including The Universe Next Door, in 1976, which has sold 350,000 copies and been translated into 18 foreign languages. Jeff Crosby
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You'll learn more about some great movies that inspire writing about them and the topics that are brought up by them. … These ones are not the whole story, of course, and with such a mystical movie as this one, you'll be able of course to reveal your own themes you'll be eager to examine on paper.
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Jeffrey M. Johnson, who as CEO and publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle was largely credited with the financial turnaround of Northern California's largest media company, has been named president of Hearst Newspapers, the corporation announced Friday. Johnson takes on the role effective
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Last year, Facebook said it would provide all advertisers with reports listing the publishers on whose sites, apps, Instant Articles and native Facebook videos their ads may appear when buying that inventory from the social network. But those reports have not yet become widely available. Facebook has
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Facebook and Google, which generate the most revenue for publishers outside of over-the-top (OTT) services, together account for less than 30% of total distributed content revenue and represent less than 5% of the total average digital revenue for publishers, according to new research by trade
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Melissa Hepokoski, Duluth, St. Louis County, $3,000: Support to complete the first draft of “An American Lotus: A Memoir” by working with a mentor, and attending writing classes and a writing conference. Ryan Vine, Duluth, St. Louis County, $3,000: Support to promote reading tour in Ireland of a new
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