Rosalie (Rosie) Stewart, most recently manager of grassroots communications for the ALA's Public Policy and Advocacy Office, will join the publisher as senior manager for public policy, reporting directly to PRH VP Skip Dye, a key move that signals the publisher's intent to expand its battle... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Employees at ad agencies, tech companies and brands skipped work today to join the Global Climate Strike, a protest of government and corporate inaction on climate change. Today's strike, scheduled just ahead of the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York, is the third event in a series of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-09-20 22:10:02 UTC ]
Facebook will take down accounts that try to interfere with the upcoming federal election and make it public regardless of whether the government decides to advise Canadians of an attempt to interfere, says Facebook's head of public policy for... Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2019-05-27 20:13:21 UTC ]
A study of how Facebook, Google and Microsoft have applied the EU’s new GDPR rules shows users are being manipulatedOne of the most influential books published in the last decade was Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. In it, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
It is in Amazon’s “interests" to "treat suppliers well” but the company should communicate with them better, Amazon’s head of public policy for the UK & Ireland has said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]