Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury is further proof that Murdoch never lets personal feelings get in the way of good businessThere are many reasons to want to go back to early 2016 – not least the fact that Rupert Murdoch was still tweeting his views of the world rather than leaving it to the minions in his global media empire. In these intervening bleak years, Twitter has been enlivened by the almost constant posts of a man Murdoch has called “my friend, Donald J Trump”.In power, Trump has favoured Murdoch’s media outlets, granting interviews to his Fox News TV channel and his first post-election foreign newspaper interview to the Times. But now, thanks to Fire and Fury, the explosive new book on the Trump White House by Michael Wolff, we know a bit more about what Murdoch really thinks of his fellow billionaire. After a call in which they discussed immigration and Silicon Valley, Murdoch is reported to have put the phone down on Trump and said: “What a fucking idiot.” Related: Michael Wolff's explosive book on Trump: the key revelations Related: Facebook declines to say why it deletes certain political accounts, but not others Related: Secondary school pupils 'ill-equipped to cope' with stress of social media Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2018-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nathan Fulwood, co-founder of creative consultancy CreateFuture, explains how a creative problem-solving approach can benefit publishers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the final week of February, in a hotel in Las Vegas, Farhan Zaidi lobbied free-agent outfielder Bryce Harper to spend the next decade with the San Francisco Giants. When Harper declined San Francisco’s $310-million offer for a more lucrative contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, Zaidi... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dave O'Brien investigates the hidden barriers that have resulted in major underrepresentation in publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to the latest edition of Ad Age Publisher's Brief, our roundup of news from the world of content producers across digital and print. Got a tip? Send it our way. Joining us late? Here's the previous edition.The news from Cupertino: "Apple's string of new subscription services pushes... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michelle Obama’s Becoming goes up against Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury at the British Book Awards. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Elly McCausland and Dan Saladino have won the Jane Grigson Trust prize, marking the first time the judges have decided to award the prize to two shortlisted authors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In what has become an annual rite under the Trump administration, the president’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ade Adepitan and Cerrie Burnell are joining children’s literature collective Inclusive Minds to champion diversity and representation in books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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ALA officials said the president's budget proposal was discouraging, but the bipartisan support in Congress over the past two years gives library supporters "reason to hope.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vintage imprint Chatto & Windus has triumphed in a five-way UK auction to snap up “ground-breaking” non-fiction title The Quartet, based on the lives of philosophers Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Elizabeth Anscombe. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen sparred with newly-empowered House Democrats on Wednesday over President Trump’s immigration policies, defending his recent misstatement that border apprehensions were at an all-time high. Nielsen called upon Congress to address what she described... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Brussels is like a village and we want to create something more intimate, where contact can be direct, and partnerships can be built,' says the director of Brussels' 50-year-old book fair. The post Brussels Book Fair’s Gregory Laurent: ‘Forward-Thinking Projects’ appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thriller author Don Winslow wants to debate Donald Trump about the president's proposed border wall, and Stephen King is willing to pay $10,000 to make it happen. Winslow, whose new novel, "The Border," is slated for release by Harper Collins imprint William Morrow next week, challenged Trump to... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trump didn't get specific about the "false" reporting, but it seems likely that he saw the print edition of this morning's New York Times with the headline "Inside Trump's Angry War On Inquiries Around Him" (subhead: "Pressure Tactics Leave the President Exposed to Accusations of Obstruction")... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former White House communications aide and new member of the Trump White House tell-all book club Cliff Sims is suing President Trump for his attempts to enforce a nondisclosure agreement signed by Sims—and many others—when he worked for the Trump presidential campaign. Sims, the New York Times... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2019-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has acquired Ready, Rabbit?, a picture book about overcoming social anxiety by Fiona Roberton. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Murray has acquired the new "delightfully mind-bending'" book from bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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President Donald Trump purports to hate “fake news” but he seems to have no problem with fake photos. At least that’s what Gizmodo discovered when it started carefully looking at the images on Trump’s official Facebook and Instagram accounts and discovered photos of the president that make him... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2019-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Subscribe to us on iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Stitcher, Google Play and iHeartRadio too. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend!It is, to hear Bloomberg Media's Keith Grossman tell it, both the best of times and the worst of times to be a publisher, depending on who you ask. On... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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