Eric Adams stood alone in City Hall on Tuesday and tried to project confidence in his imperiled mayoralty as he answered in-depth questions for the first time since his federal corruption indictment.Adams was not seated at a table surrounded by his usual phalanx of deputy mayors, and instead... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-10-01 19:47:39 UTC ]
City Council members signaled that they may reject Mayor Eric Adams’ pick to be the city’s top lawyer as they laid into the nominee, Randy Mastro, during a tense confirmation hearing on Tuesday that was ongoing as of midafternoon.Mastro, a prominent and accomplished attorney, faced hours of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-08-27 20:06:54 UTC ]
At a press conference on Thursday, 2024 Guest of Honor Italy previewed its Frankfurt Book Fair plans featuring 120 authors and artists. The post Frankfurt: 2024 Guest of Honor Italy Presents Plans appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-10-19 15:10:39 UTC ]
Back in 2021, the New York Police Department (NYPD) cancelled a planned deployment of the Spot robot dog [aka "Digidog"] following a public backlash. Now, New York City's current law and order mayor Eric Adams has brought the robot dog back for use in "hazardous situations," The New York Times... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-04-12 06:19:27 UTC ]
Yesterday afternoon, amid a busy news Sunday on multiple fronts, the basketball legend Kobe Bryant died in California, and our media took a sharp collective breath. Bryant, who was 41, was killed in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, close to LA. Eight other people died, including Bryant’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-01-27 12:59:58 UTC ]
In a press conference in London earlier today, embattled-but-unbowed leader of the British Labour Party, lifelong democratic socialist, and absolute boy Jeremy Corbyn revealed a dossier proving that the US is demanding that Britain’s National Health Service (a remarkable civic institution born... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-27 16:43:19 UTC ]
On Tuesday evening, BuzzFeed chose to publish 35 pages of documents about President-elect Donald Trump. Those documents contain, as BuzzFeed reported, "memos written over a period of months, [including] specific, unverified and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Interactive Advertising Bureau elevated its fight against ad blockers on Tuesday, with President-CEO Randall Rothenberg renewing what he called his "cri de coeur" against the practice and showcasing small publishers being hurt by the practice. The organization also said it was taking new... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Man Booker International Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize are to merge to create one annual award for a work of literary fiction translated into English. Jonathan Taylor, chair of the Man Booker Foundation, said at a press conference this morning (7th July) that the Man... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
At a press conference at this week's London Book Fair (14th April), Brian May revealed that he will publish a new book of 3-D Queen photos, Queen in 3-D (Autumn 2016), via his own publishing imprint, the London Stereoscopic Company (LSC). Only a handful of the photographs included in the book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
What Super Bowl Sunday is to ESPN, today is to the tech publishing world. For today, Apple will unveil (for the second time) its Internet-enabled “smartwatch,” appropriately dubbed the Apple Watch. Which means that every tech publication of note is live-blogging what is, despite the oversized... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble unveiled the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook, a 7-inch tablet cobranded with hardware manufacturer Samsung Electronics, at a press conference at the B&N Union Square store in Manhattan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Japanese author Nahoko Uehashi and Brazilian illustrator Roger Mello are the recipients of the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, one of the oldest and most prestigious international awards in children’s literature. The announcement came Monday at a press conference at the Bologna Children’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
This story first appears on FOLIO:'s sister site minonline. There is no telling what exactly Barnes & Noble will be announcing at a press conference the company has scheduled for Nov. 7 in New York, but word went out to the media yesterday that something was coming next week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 06/10/2011 - 08:50 The launch of World Book Night 2012 has been delayed, and is being moved from Frankfurt next week to Waterstone's Piccadilly on 24th October. The announcement of the 25 titles chosen by WBN's editorial selection ... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
At a press conference this morning, Time Inc. announced it is launching an "all access" digital subscription plan in an effort to offer their brands to readers on any platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]