The Handmaid’s Tale has risen more than 400 places on bestseller charts since Wednesday with a similar rush for copies of On Tyranny by Timothy SnyderBooks about democracy, dystopia, tyranny, feminism and far-right politics rapidly climbed bestseller charts in the wake of Donald Trump winning... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-11-07 15:33:10 UTC ]
With Vice President Kamala Harris the presumptive Democratic nominee, the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade may be the second in U.S. history with a woman atop a major party ballot. These six books, published post-Dobbs, provide insight into an issue... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Fast Company’s new cover story goes behind the scenes with the brave young people choosing politics as a career—and the savvy young people helping them win. An earlier version of this column—and the one that ran in the print edition of our Summer 2024 issue—cited some striking data showing that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2024-07-24 09:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher’s defence in case brought by News Corp co-chairman relies in part upon Dominion’s US suit against media giantFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLachlan Murdoch allowed Fox News hosts to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-12 07:32:45 UTC ]
As 1888 turned to 1889, we reflected on several topics that still resonate today, including a presidential election’s impact on book sales and the importance of copyright protections. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-12-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
In 1877, as the outcome of the previous year’s presidential election was still being disputed, D. Appleton & Co. advertised a book that tackled the ever-thorny question, “How shall the votes be counted?” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-02-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
Brands unwittingly spent a minimum of $235 million in advertising on sites linked to disinformation in 2019, according to Global Disinformation Index estimates, and digital media analytics, data and measurement platform DoubleVerify released a new report that examined three of the most important... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2021-02-23 00:05:16 UTC ]
The publisher faced calls to drop the Missouri Republican’s upcoming book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” following criticism of his efforts to overturn the presidential election. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-07 23:20:50 UTC ]
President Obama announced Thursday that his forthcoming memoir, 'A Promised Land,' will take readers inside his White House. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-09-17 15:24:24 UTC ]
With voter registration deadlines approaching and misinformation around voter fraud spreading, a newly-formed coalition of writers is volunteering their time to defeat Donald Trump in the presidential election this fall. The group, Writers Against Trump—whose initial members include Paul Auster,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-25 17:07:21 UTC ]
In the run-up to November’s presidential election, publishers are courting readers who won’t be eligible to cast ballots this year or, in some cases, for many years to come. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bookshop Santa Cruz in California and Changing Hands Bookstore in Arizona, have partnered in a drive to register Arizona voters and persuade them to vote Democrat in this year's presidential election. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
This is a big year. Not just in the symmetry of the number – 2020, the futuristic subject period for so many science fiction writers – but in what we already know will happen. A presidential election, prefaced by a likely Senate impeachment trial, will add new layers to an already murky... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-01-03 11:00:00 UTC ]
Shortly after the stunning US presidential election in 2016, a French journalist with a lifelong love for American literature seized the political moment to give American authors a platform to express themselves in what would become a 200-page magazine called America—in French. Fifteen days... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-15 09:48:32 UTC ]
Ahead of a contentious 2020 U.S. presidential election, two trade bodies representing media agencies and publishers are working toward more sophisticated brand safety standards and how to apply them to news content. These organizations--the American Association of Advertising Agencies and... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2019-09-27 20:14:59 UTC ]
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election has become something of a publishing phenomenon, with several book versions of the report flying off bookstore shelves. Now a San Diego publisher is planning to release a version of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-24 19:00:00 UTC ]
This month, MIT scientists published a paper that found lies spread six times faster than real news on Twitter. This week, Jordan Erica Webber tries to understand why this happensSubscribe and review: Acast, Apple, Spotify, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud. Join the discussion on Facebook,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook came under fire after it admitted that it published 3,000 Russian-linked advertisements designed to influence the US Presidential Election. Those ads pointed to Pages that trafficked in fake news, which has been one of the social network's b... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
What Happened, due out in September, will tell her story of the electoral battle with Donald Trump in ‘a deeply intimate account and a cautionary tale for the nation’Hillary Clinton has promised that she will be “letting [her] guard down” in the most personal book she has yet written: a memoir... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book by former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile will examine the scandals and disputes surrounding last year's presidential election. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]