Publisher Bloomsbury has promised to correct the error made in Hari’s new book Magic PillJohann Hari and his publisher Bloomsbury have apologised after the author wrongly claimed in his latest book that Observer restaurant critic Jay Rayner had taken the diabetes drug Ozempic.In Magic Pill, Hari claimed that Rayner said Ozempic “robbed him of his pleasure in food so severely that even in great restaurants in Paris, he couldn’t find any joy”. In an X post on Sunday, Rayner said that Hari’s claim was “complete and utter bollocks” and that he has “never used Ozempic or anything similar”, linking to a column he wrote in which he had explained why he would never take the drugs. He said that he was “mystified” as to why Bloomsbury “did not go through the text with a fine tooth comb”. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2024-05-15 16:50:55 UTC ]
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'Americanah' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie took the prize for fiction, while 'Five Days at Memorial' by Sheri Fink secured the nonfiction prize. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The novels landed in series order, with "Divergent" at #1, "Insurgent" at #2, and "Allegiant" at #3. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Labour deputy leader claims paper's associate editor has admitted she was never an apologist for paedophiliaHarriet Harman has again called on the Daily Mail to "apologise and put the record straight" over its claims she turned a blind eye to a paedophile lobbying group in the 1970s.The Labour... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In early April Vice will debut a yet-unnamed food vertical with "American Idol" producer FremantleMedia. The brash digital-media company also has a food-related ad network on its menu.Vice and FremantleMedia will jointly develop and produce "hundreds of hours of content" for the property, said... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A report advocating the inclusion of fair use provisions in Australia’s copyright laws has drawn criticism from the International Publishers Association. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple Inc. faces as much as $840 million in state and consumer antitrust claims related to electronic-book deals with publishers as it continues to oppose a court-ordered monitor in a related U.S.... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ex-employee, who warned Lord Patten about digital initiative in 2012, compares benefits estimates to Enron-style accountingRead the full NAO report on the BBC's handling of the DMI projectRead the written evidence submitted to the PAC for the DMI inquiryThe whistleblower on the failings of the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jeremy Paxman offers a view of the first world war that has its insights but avoids important questions that need answeringThe battle to carve up the 100th anniversary of the first world war began early this month with education secretary Michael Gove accusing historians and Blackadder – he... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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• BBC admits it 'got this one wrong'• Executive board 'applied insufficient scrutiny'• 'Governance arrangements … were inadequate'Read the NAO report on the BBC's handling of the DMI projectThe BBC's handling of the £100m Digital Media Initiative fiasco has come in for further criticism, with a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Hope Waddell Training Institution, a school in Nigeria founded in 1895 by Presbyterian missionaries, is laying claim to have set up Africa's oldest press. But could it be so?Hope Waddell, in Calabar, Cross River State, had a functioning printing press from 1903, initially to serve the school... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nominees for "The Hatchet Job of the Year, given to the “writer of the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months,” are out. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Academic Yejin Choi says her algorithm can predict 'highly successful literature' with 84% accuracyAuthors, publishers and literary critics struggling to unlock the secrets of successful writing can breathe a sigh of relief, after a computer science professor has announced an algorithm that can... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actor Tom Cruise settles a libel legal action with a German publisher which claimed in US magazines that he had "abandoned" his daughter Suri. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite threat of legal action, Guido Fawkes blog publishes tape of Nick Pollard allegedly admitting omission was a 'mistake'Lord Patten is facing mounting pressure to get to the bottom of an allegation that the internal inquiry into the BBC's handling of the Jimmy Savile scandal may have... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The University of Kent has apologised for a statement on its website that seemingly belittled... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Daily Mail carries a piece today in which it apologises to the BBC's business editor, Robert Peston for having revealed that his late wife had cancer.In 2008, the paper reported on the illness of Peston's wife, Sian Busby, without giving the couple any advance warning or checking whether... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this yearChimamanda Ngozi AdichieFive Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic has apologised for a children’s book that omits Israel from a map of the Middle... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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IBM is alleging that Twitter has infringed on its patents, including one that would seem to give the computing giant status as an inventor of online advertising.Revealed in a Twitter filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning, IBM is claiming that Twitter has infringed on at... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I’m grateful to MacKenzie and to every other thoughtful reviewer who shares their perspectives on my book and on this remarkable story. – Bloomberg Businessweek reporter and Jeff Bezos biographer Brad Stone, responding to a one-star review of his new book from MacKenzie Bezos, Jeff Bezos’s wife.... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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