On June 28, 2018, a gunman stormed the newsroom of the Capital Gazette, in Annapolis, Maryland, and murdered five staffers: Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters, Rebecca Smith, Gerald Fischman, and John McNamara. Later the same day, Selene San Felice, a twenty-two-year-old reporter who survived the attack, was interviewed on CNN, and shared a grim observation about the nature of the news cycles that typically follow mass shootings in America. “I honestly didn’t even expect to be talking with Anderson Cooper today. I thought people would get, like, an Apple News notification, and they would just blow it off,” San Felice said. “This is going to be a story for how many days? Less than a week. People will forget about us after a week.” The Capital Gazette shooting, and San Felice’s interview, stayed with Chris Benderev, a reporter and producer at NPR, much longer than that. He and his colleagues at Embedded—a documentary-style show, hosted by Kelly McEvers, that produces deep dives off the news—had already been looking to focus on the aftermath of a shooting; there was, sickeningly, no shortage of possible subjects, but Benderev ended up staying with the story of the Capital Gazette. (It helped that Annapolis is close to his base, in DC.) Over the course of the next two and a half years, he reported a four-part series; the first installment dropped a month ago, and the fourth came out last week. The series starts with the CNN interview and expands from there, focusing first on the day... Continue reading at 'Columbia Journalism Review'
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Gallic Books has acquired a "quick, cruel, coming-of-age tale" about an abandoned girl from Miles Franklin-winner Sofie Laguna. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion is publishing a story of love, war, family and betrayal, based on the true story of a little-known massacre in Civitella, Italy during the Second World War. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kevin Jared Hosein has won the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his “uncanny bar story” combining “ideas of civility and ferality”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Staunchly independent and the launchpad for a slew of successful Irish writers, Stinging Fly has weathered funding cuts to hit two decades in business. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador will publish the story of the world’s first self-described drag queen billed as a marriage of "RuPaul's Drag Race" and “Hidden Figures”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After its recent Walter Scott Prize win, indie list Bluemoose Books expected the media to be beating a path to its door. Its co-founders were mistaken... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus has signed a "brilliant and terrifying tale of mystery and imagination" by Michelle Paver for six figures. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Avon Books has signed a two-book deal with debut author and former journalist Lorna Cook, including a novel inspired by a ghost village in Dorset. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_127651" align="alignright" width="300"] An exclusive first look at Coastal Living's 208 Idea House in Habersham, SC[/caption] Showcase houses aren't a new concept for shelter magazines. Generally viewed as a natural—and expected—extension of a brand, it’s not atypical at... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Drake – The Bookshop has launched a campaign to place 285 copies of refugee tale The Day War Came into schools whilst also raising money for the author, illustrator and charity. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer, rapper and community activist Darren McGarvey, also known as 'Loki', has won the Orwell Prize for Books for his "heart-rending" debut Poverty Safari (Luath Press). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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City and regional magazine publishers continue to be nimble and optimistic in an atmosphere that remains anxious about the future of print advertising. A survey conducted by Folio: last year illustrated these publishers' skillful approach to revenue diversification: nearly two-thirds of... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lightning Books has signed the fifth novel of award-winning Australian writer Emily Maguire. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador will publish two more novels from The End We Start From author Megan Hunter. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At BookExpo, actor turned writer Chris Colfer spoke with 'NYTBR' editor Pamela Paul about the paperback release of the sixth and final book in his bestselling The Land of Stories series. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Book People will begin selling a refugee tale by 10-year-old Frasier Cox next month, after the school boy won its bedtime story competition, with proceeds going to Save the Children. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Naomi Alderman and Juno Dawson are both contributing to Penguin Random House's Doctor Who publishing this autumn, celebrating the debut of Jodie Whittaker as the "Thirteenth Doctor". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lebanese publisher Rania Zaghir designed an immersive play space for children, Sea of Tales, at the Abu Dhabi Book Fair based on Arabic classics including 'The Thousand and One Nights.' The post Rania Zaghir: A Lebanese Publisher’s Arabian ‘Sea of Tales’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH Children’s will next publish a book about a teenager suffering from psychosis by Emma Smith-Barton, who took part in the publisher’s WriteNow programme. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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International officials and media gather on World Book Day to open the 18th UNESCO World Book Capital program in Athens, celebrating what Greece's Prokopis Pavlopoulos calls 'the powerful potential of books.' The post Greece Opens Athens’ Year as UNESCO’s World Book Capital appeared first on... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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