At last, competency trumped loyalty.Mayor Eric Adams this week elevated Maria Torres-Springer — a deeply experienced public servant with allies in the business, real estate and nonprofit communities — to the number-two job at City Hall. The move elicited a collective sigh of relief that some measure of city business may yet carry on amid the drama kicked up by our embattled and indicted mayor.Of course, getting the mayor to tap a professional rather than a crony for a top role should not have required four federal investigations, a host of FBI raids, a guessing game of who’s going to resign next and perhaps even some behind-the-scenes pressure from Gov. Kathy Hochul, who has so far opted not to use her authority to force him out of office.The Torres-Springer appointment drew immediate praise across the city, including from business groups like the Association for a Better New York and the Partnership for New York City. Torres-Springer’s duties will include overseeing the city budget, supervising the other deputy mayors and maintaining her current portfolio of housing and economic development. She has played a key role pushing the City of Yes zoning reforms and major land-use projects in Willets Point and Governors Island.The moves boosted hopes that business initiatives won’t fall through the cracks as Adams navigates the year that remains of his first term while battling criminal charges that he solicited bribes and illegal campaign contributions in exchange for... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
[ Crains New York | 2024-10-11 10:03:49 UTC ]
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Faber assistant editor Ella Griffiths has been appointed to the newly created role of editor with specific responsibility for Faber’s classics, backlist, and heritage publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-03 02:21:36 UTC ]
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If the sky isn’t exactly falling on the broadcast TV advertising model, it certainly seems to be a lot closer to the ground than it once was. The ongoing flight of younger viewers from linear television has made a hash of what’s traditionally been a week for sampling new shows and revisiting old... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-02 20:09:24 UTC ]
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The British Book Awards and The Bookseller’s working class survey have been shortlisted for prizes at this year’s Professional Publishers Association (PPA) Independent Publisher Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 16:52:21 UTC ]
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Drama rights for BAFTA-winning foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman's book on the life and death of Jamal Khashoggi have been snapped up by Two Cities Television and Topic Studios, the production companies behind "Patrick Melrose" and "Spotlight". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 16:26:21 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_171791" align="alignright" width="300"] The Apollo 13 crew onboard the USS Iwo Jima after splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean.[/caption] You will be familiar, I suppose, with Apollo 13—if not the phenomenal movie, perhaps the unfortunate outer-space incident that... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-10-01 15:35:11 UTC ]
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Recently, I sat down with my 5-year-old son and explained to him what I do for a living. After a 15-minute conversation he said, “So Mommy, you send commercials to me for things that I like, like M&Ms and apple juice because I like them.” I’ve been working in the advanced television space... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-30 13:43:00 UTC ]
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Jeffrey Archer, Marian Keyes and Stacey Halls were among the authors at this year's Bertrams Christmas conference which saw Abingdon indie Mostly Books win bookshop of the year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-30 10:31:00 UTC ]
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Bon Appétit’s "Hot 10" list of the best new restaurants in the country began as a typical magazine feature when it made its debut in BA's September restaurants issue in 2009. The following year, the magazine threw a party to honor and celebrate the restaurants, inviting them to New York to cook... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-09-27 19:55:46 UTC ]
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Alison Bechdel, Mike Mignola and five contributors to Mad Magazine will be honored at the Harvey Awards at New York Comic Con next week. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-09-25 20:30:04 UTC ]
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The climate activists release their first print publication this week. But does a crisis-hit planet make for winning journalism?In a move that feels more than slightly ironic, the climate activists Extinction Rebellion have decided to go into a media on the brink of extinction, having released... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-09-25 16:31:16 UTC ]
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The Authors Guild and the Association of Authors' Representatives have filed a joint brief supporting publishers' calls for a preliminary injuction to stop their works being included in Audible's Captions programme. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-24 19:58:52 UTC ]
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Books by Stacey Halls, Anthony Horowitz and Oyinkan Braithwaite are among the six novels in this autumn’s picks for the Richard and Judy Book Club. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-24 04:30:56 UTC ]
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StorySign, a free mobile app that translates children’s books into sign language, has launched on Apple iOS. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-24 00:27:16 UTC ]
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Feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez’s "exposé" on the gender data gap, Invisible Women (Chatto & Windus), has scooped the £25,000 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-23 14:17:51 UTC ]
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In his more than 30 years selling books on the Upper West Side, Chris Doeblin has weathered competition from Barnes and Noble and Amazon and the ascent of e-readers. He has figured out how to mix... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2019-09-23 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Over 250 writers including Sally Rooney, Jeanette Winterson and George Saunders have thrown their support behind novelist Kamila Shamsie after a German literary prize was rescinded due to her support of an Israel boycott. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-23 11:12:04 UTC ]
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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 at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-20 22:10:02 UTC ]
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Faber & Faber triumphed in a "hard-fought" five-way auction to publish historian Edward Shawcross’s debut book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-20 16:32:54 UTC ]
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From cool technology to book clubs to a tricky round of Jeopardy, a bookseller plays librarian for a day. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-20 12:00:45 UTC ]
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In Cruz Smith’s ninth Arkady Renko novel, 'The Siberian Dilemma,' the investigator travels into the frozen depths of Siberia. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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