SurveyMonkey CEO David Goldberg, who grew the company to a $2 billion valuation, died suddenly on Friday night. He is survived by wife Sheryl Sandberg, the COO at Facebook Inc., and two children. Sandberg married Goldberg in 2004 and credited him in her book "Lean In" for his role in creating a family where both spouses shared domestic responsibilities so each could pursue their careers. No cause was released, though The New York Times reported that Goldberg was on vacation abroad with Sandberg… Continue reading at 'Silicon Valley Business Journal'
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Reisman has returned as CEO of Indigo Books & Music, not long after CEO Peter Ruis resigned and Reisman officially retired. Newly elected board member Markus Dohle has taken the role of company chair. The company is also preparing to open a new concept store in Toronto. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
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After a brief retirement, Heather Reisman has been reinstated as CEO of Indigo, the book retailer she founded almost 30 years ago. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2023-09-18 12:50:39 UTC ]
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Malaviya, who was named interim head of the global operations of Penguin Random House following the departure of Markus Dohle at the end of 2022, has officially been named CEO of the world's largest trade publisher. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The City’ is a short story about revenge best served cold. Written by the American author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), the story was included in his 1952 collection The Illustrated Man. The story is about a city which has waited twenty thousand years... Continue reading at Interesting Literature
[ Interesting Literature | 2023-09-17 14:00:52 UTC ]
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Nielsen named Karthik Rao, who headed Nielsen Audience Measurement, as CEO of the entire company, succeeding David Kenny, who will become executive chairman. Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2023-09-14 13:51:57 UTC ]
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Top line TV measurement and analytics giant Nielsen has named Karthik Rao as CEO, effective immediately. Former CEO David Kenny, who had the position since 2018, will take the role of executive chairman. Between the lines Following his appointment as CEO, Rao said he was looking to position... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2023-09-14 13:35:17 UTC ]
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Peter Ruis has resigned as CEO of Indigo Books & Music, a position he held for a year. The news comes after the retirement of founder Heather Reisman, a boardroom shake-up, and a destructive cyber attack that impacted sales. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The up-and-down year at Canadian book retailer Indigo took a new twist on Thursday as newly minted CEO Peter Ruis abruptly resigned. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2023-09-07 13:48:13 UTC ]
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Van Nuys native Paul Yamazaki, a longtime veteran of San Francisco landmark City Lights, will receive a lifetime honor at the National Book Awards next month. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-09-06 14:00:49 UTC ]
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Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is a feast of a book. It’s about hunger—the hungers of the body, of addiction, of history. Brilliant, gutting, and funny, she writes with such range about growing up in her family’s Chinese restaurant in Atlantic City as their reach for the... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2023-08-31 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Stops in the states of Texas, Colorado, and New York are planned for the Jaipur Literature Festival's international tour in September. The post India’s Jaipur Literature Festival Heads for Three US Cities appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2023-08-28 18:36:15 UTC ]
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American screenwriter and producer behind the creation of the hugely successful soaps Dallas and Knots LandingDavid Jacobs, who has died aged 84, was an aspiring novelist when he created the show Dallas, a worldwide phenomenon and US television’s first peak-time soap success since Peyton Place.... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-08-23 13:56:48 UTC ]
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If you guessed London, you’re right—London is mentioned at least three times more often than any other European city. (Wonder why?) As Travel Daily reports, a digital printing company called Aura Print has apparently processed the entire Google Books database to “identify the cumulative mentions... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-08-22 14:51:06 UTC ]
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The novelist discusses his career and his recent essay about cadavers in crime fiction, and the actor Richard E. Grant talks about his memoir and his love of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2023-08-18 17:55:09 UTC ]
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Paramount announced Monday that it's selling the storied publisher for $1.62 billion, months after a sale to Penguin Random House was blocked by a federal judge. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-08-07 21:27:31 UTC ]
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Tattered Cover has named Brad Dempsey interim CEO of the Denver bookstore chain, replacing CFO Margie Keenan, who served as interim CEO after former CEO and co-owner Kwame Spearman left in April to start a political career. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-07-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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She had a modest career as an actress but was best known for following in the footsteps of her mother, the best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2023-06-16 21:20:41 UTC ]
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who wrote nihilistic and violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds that enthralled and appalled readers, died on Tuesday at the age of 89, his representative confirmed to CBC... Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2023-06-13 20:01:40 UTC ]
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Richard Snyder, a visionary and imperious executive at Simon & Schuster who presided over the publisher’s exponential rise during the second half of the 20th century and helped define an era of growing corporate power, has died Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2023-06-08 01:26:39 UTC ]
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Sherrill was a cofounder of Chosen Books and co-author of bestsellers such as 'The Hiding Place' with Corrie ten Bloom, who hid Jews during the Holocaust. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-06-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
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