Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 06/10/2011 - 15:26 Library campaigner Lauren Smith has been elected as vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. Smith, a learning and teaching support officer at the University of Leeds, will serve for one year from 1st January 2012. Smith has gained a high media profile for her work with Voices for the Library and the Save Doncaster Libraries campaign. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The writer and broadcaster Bidisha will chair the jury of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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CILIP president Ayub Khan MBE outlines the key challenges facing libraries, and how they can turn these into opportunities. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Rhiannon Smith has made her first acquisition for Fleet: a debut novel telling the story of three generations of Brazilian women in London. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Vice Media Inc. suspended President Andrew Creighton and Chief Digital Officer Mike Germano while it investigates harassment claims against them, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg.Allegations against Germano will be reviewed by an external investigator, Chief Operating Officer Sarah... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vice Media has suspended two top executives after a New York Times report on sexual misconduct at the digital media company. Vice has suspended its president, Andrew Creighton, and chief digital officer, Mike Germano, as it investigates allegations against them, according to a company memo sent... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A long-anticipated merger between the Higher Education Academy (HEA), the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) has been confirmed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“The answer to the duopoly for media owners is not to adopt a defensive stance and assume the situation is a permanent obstacle to growth, and we’re in permanent crisis, but to innovate." The post Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith: Publishers need to stop playing defense appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ali Smith’s seasonal novel Winter (Hamish Hamilton), Sally Rooney’s "perfectly observed" début Conversations with Friends (Faber) and the eagerly anticipated first instalment of Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust trilogy, La Belle Sauvage (Penguin/David Fickling Books), were among the critics’... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Michael Lynton, chairman of messaging app Snapchat, and a former chair and c.e.o. of Sony Entertainment, has been appointed to the Pearson board of directors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist Kwame Anthony Appiah has been named chair of the judges for the 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme editor Sarah Sands has been unveiled as the chair of the judges for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg will chair the judging panel for the 2018 Russian Book Prize run by Pushkin House. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Matthew Littleford is to become the chair of The Reading Agency following Liz Cleaver's 10-year stint. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The writer and editor promoted Joseph Conrad and DH Lawrence and deserves recognition as a great literary tastemakerThe first question worth asking of Helen Smith’s A-grade biography of Edward Garnett (1868‑1937) is just how many manuscripts passed across the desk of this publishers’ reader in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Creative writing charity Arvon has appointed biographer Jeremy Treglown, a former editor of the Times Literary Supplement, to be its new chair. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The cofounder of the Utah-based indie house, who died on October 28, was a longtime champion of independent publishing, as well as the publishing scene west of the Mississippi. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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W H Smith has reported a 2% rise in revenue and a 7% rise in pre-tax profits for the year to end August 2017. However its book business saw a like-for-like revenue drop of 4% on the previous year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Octopus imprint Cassell is to publish a feminist series by Zing Tsjeng, UK editor of VICE.com's women’s interest channel Broadly. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Patricia Hodgson says she believes sites could be classified as publishers, as businesses face pressure over fake newsThe chairman of the media regulator Ofcom has said she believes internet businesses such as Google and Facebook are publishers, raising the prospect that they could eventually... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stephen Clarke, c.e.o. of W H Smith, is delivering the first lecture of a new Global Challenges course at the University of Edinburgh Business School next month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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