Force says Telegraph writer accused of inciting racial hatred, rather than committing a non-crime hate incident as she had claimedEssex police have defended their decision to investigate the Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson over a social media post, saying she is accused of “inciting racial hatred” not of committing a “non-crime hate incident”, as she had claimed.The row over Pearson’s tweet has been splashed across the front pages of the Times, Telegraph and Mail this week. Leading figures on the right, including the new leader of the Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch, and the former prime minister Boris Johnson, have leapt to her defence. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Faced with worse-than-expected results in its North American higher education publishing business, Pearson said this morning that it is putting its 47% stake in Penguin Random House up for sale. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Management have moved to reassure staff and writers that selling the 47% holding will not affect business, but authors and agents express uneaseAuthors and staff have reacted cautiously to news that Pearson is to sell its stake in Penguin Random House (PRH), the world’s biggest publisher and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The FTSE 100 remains in positive territory despite a 30% plunge in Pearson shares after the education publisher issues a profit warning. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The educational publisher Pearson has warned of an "unprecedented" fall in sales in the US. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Education giant plans sale of stake in Penguin Random House to Bertelsmann as it cuts payout to shareholdersAlmost £2bn was wiped from the stock market value of Pearson after the beleaguered FTSE 100 company issued profit warnings for the next two years and said it would cut its payout to... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson intends to sell its 47% stake in Penguin Random House and will be issuing an "exit notice" to its joint venture partner Bertelsmann, which holds a majority 53% stake in the group. Bertelsmann has responded by saying it is "open" to increasing its share in the world’s biggest trade... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Fallon has presided over a string of mishaps at the educational giant and a plunge in the share priceForecasting is difficult, especially about the future, as the old line goes – but is it quite as hard as John Fallon, chief executive of Pearson, makes it seem?Two errors in 2016 were... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London mayor Sadiq Khan has vowed he will stand with the creative industries "every step of the way" to ensure their interests are "defended" during the upcoming Brexit negotiations. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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North Yorkshire secondhand bookshop owner Steve Bloom has defended his policy of asking customers to pay 50p to browse his store Bloomindales, saying he won't "bow to pressure" to revoke the charge following media coverage. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This time the Kings hit the reset button and it worked. They hit it following an uninspiring loss to the Red Wings on Thursday. They hit it after allowing two first-period goals to the Wild on Saturday. And they hit it once more when the Wild knotted the score at 3 with 42.1 seconds left in... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the face of pressure for Simon & Schuster to drop the far-right star’s book Dangerous in the US, campaigners say that stifling him will have ‘a chilling effect’A boycott of far-right controversialist Milo Yiannopoulos’s publisher Simon & Schuster will have “a chilling effect” on... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Coalition Against Censorship has issued a statement in defense of Simon & Schuster after the book deal with Milo Yiannopoulos received widespread backlash and threats of boycotts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent (Serpent's Tail) has won the Spoon's Carpet Novel Award 2016 for the best novel to be read in a pub. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson is making its Learning Design Principles (LDPs) publicly available under a creative commons license to "broaden the conversation" on the learning principles that should form the basis for educational products. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Biteback is to publish Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World, a "powerful and revealing" investigation by journalist James Ball. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson has confirmed that its exam board is to run a new A Level in history of art and an A and AS Level in statistics. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Perry's novel The Essex Serpent is named Waterstones Book of the Year ahead of a Beatrix Potter manuscript and a Harry Potter playscript. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sir Norman Bettison, the former chief constable of both Merseyside and West Yorkshire Police, has defended his book about the Hillsborough disaster, saying he is “entitled" to tell his story. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Will Page, director of economics at Spotify, Steve Ackerman, managing director of Somethin’ Else, Ian Small, c.e.o. of AudioBooks.com, and Tom Hall, vice president Learning Platforms, Schools and English at Pearson, are the latest speakers added to the line-up of FutureBook, The Bookseller’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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According to an ACLU blog post published on Tuesday, law enforcement officials implemented a far-reaching surveillance program to track protesters in both Ferguson, MO and Baltimore, MD during their recent uprisings and relied on special feeds of use... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2016-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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