It is now emerging that the roll out of the new education curriculum could face turbulence following delays in the printing of requisite books. The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) is blaming publishers on delayed distribution of new books meant for public schools. According to KICD
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Facebook is trying to play extra nice with local news publishers by putting $3 million behind the launch of the Local News Subscriptions Accelerator. The three-month pilot program will help 10 to 15 U.S.-based metropolitan news organizations gain more digital subscribers both on and off Facebook.
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Little, Brown and Company is looking to hire a Publicity Manager (with a concentration on lifestyle/cookbooks and narrative non-fiction, and the occasional novel). ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Publicizing approximately 15 titles per season (30 titles a year) for Little, Brown, and
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Democratic congressman David Cicilline will introduce legislation next week to combat Google and Facebook taking dominant shares of online advertising revenue, by immunising news publishers from antitrust liability for banding together in negotiations.
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