Lloyd Shepherd, former director of news and information products at Yahoo and (disclaimer) deputy director of digital publishing at GU, has a new company and a new project in the form of Messy Media which is set to roll out a series of specialist news blogs.The company launched its first publication, politics blog Westmonster (boom boom) today, with editor Sadie Smith live blogging the prime minister's speech at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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My son Piers Jones, who has died aged 47 from cancer, worked as a digital publishing expert at the Guardian for eight years before becoming the first chief digital officer at the Natural History Museum in London.In various roles at the Guardian from 2008 onwards he helped to make it possible for... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Hodder & Stoughton has acquired a new book conceived by LBC presenter Iain Dale, The Prime Ministers, timed to publish in 2020 ahead of the 300th anniversary of the creation of the office of Prime Minister in April 2021. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-08 12:07:38 UTC ]
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We asked digital publishing executives to vote for the top technology vendors they encountered at FUSE Media 2019. Check out the "Best Boardroom Case Studies," the "Startup Derby Winner," and one "Company to Watch." Plus, learn how these vendors are specifically helping publishers. Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2019-12-04 15:28:23 UTC ]
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The power of the rightwing press has corroded public debate. But we can do more than just complain about itIn February 2016, a few months before the referendum, Donald Tusk published the European Council’s draft plans for renegotiating Britain’s relationship with the EU. David Cameron was... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-11-15 06:00:01 UTC ]
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Digital publishing consultancy The Literary Platform has won £44,800 from Arts Council England to relaunch and support its new digital magazine, The Lit, as well as a series of writing and publishing initiatives targeted at underrepresented writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-07 05:36:40 UTC ]
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Apple is making changes to its news service, including a deal with Verizon to sell ads and new guidelines for publishers, as it tries to make the platform more accessible to marketers and media. On Thursday, Verizon Media won the right to sell ads for Apple News and Apple Stocks in Canada,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-17 21:42:28 UTC ]
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The dawn of digital publishing brought about a tumultuous shift within the media landscape. Publishers have had to adapt to many emerging realities – but the latest challenge still hasn’t been fully overcome. Even if you found your place in the sun and now put all your efforts into creating... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
[ Publishing Executive | 2019-10-08 14:32:35 UTC ]
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Who needs secret government sources when you have Donald Trump? Yesterday, a reporter on the White House driveway asked Trump what he hoped Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, would do after Trump asked him to investigate the Bidens. “I would think that if they were honest about it,... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-10-04 11:58:13 UTC ]
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Vice Media Inc., the youth-oriented media company, agreed to acquire the online publisher Refinery29, seeking to reignite growth by reaching a young female audience. The deal marks the biggest move yet by Vice Chief Executive Officer Nancy Dubuc, who has been trying to revive the once... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-02 19:51:02 UTC ]
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For the Record, the former PM’s account of his time in office sold close to 21,000 copies in its first week, behind Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, which topped 100,000Almost 21,000 people rushed out to buy a copy of David Cameron’s memoir in its first week on sale, placing it second on the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-09-24 14:00:06 UTC ]
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David Cameron’s memoir, For the Record, hit the headlines this weekend as the publicity campaign for the former prime minister’s book gets underway. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The veteran presenter, feared and respected by all sides, is hanging up his mic. We look at his career highs and lowsFor good or ill, after 32 years serving on the frontline of radio news presentation for the Today programme, John Humphrys has become an emblem of BBC journalism. One of the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-09-14 16:45:01 UTC ]
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Fundamentally, advertising doesn’t work unless it is seen. In print media, the mantra was “far forward, on a right-hand page, facing a full page of editorial content.” On TV, it was and still is “the first or last spot in the advertising pod.” And in the digital publishing world, it is “above... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-09-12 18:40:59 UTC ]
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Ian McEwan is releasing a new novella at the end of this month, a “biting political satire” on Brexit about a man’s metamorphosis into the Prime Minister, hellbent on carrying out the will of the people. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-12 00:26:24 UTC ]
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The digital publishing and self-publishing platform, which was founded in Korea, has expanded in the U.S., and is preparing to launch a series of nine online graphic adaptations of young adult prose novels published by a variety of big houses. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The renewed interest of the subscription revenue model has turned heads in the digital publishing industry. Some publishers have found Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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Throughout the year, we report on the good and bad things happening in and around the print and digital publishing world. Sometimes the stories offer true inspiration, while other times they make us and our readers cringe. But that’s business. What’s always consistent in what we report is... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-08-13 19:29:59 UTC ]
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The Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA), a printing industry trade group, announced this week that it has acquired NAPCO Media—the Philadelphia-based B2B publisher of Book Business, Printing Impressions and Publishing Executive, among a handful of other titles—for an undisclosed... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-08-08 18:53:40 UTC ]
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Orlando software and digital publishing firm firm BlueToad Inc. has partnered with Amazon Inc. to launch a new voice technology service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Amazon Polly, a service that turns text into speech, will adopt a Neural Text-to-Speech Newscaster Voice program that... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2019-08-05 16:04:37 UTC ]
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The incoming prime minister’s Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius was scheduled for October 2016, but has been pushed back multiple timesThe riddle of Shakespeare’s genius must remain unsolved, for now at least, after Boris Johnson’s publisher said on Wednesday morning that the new prime... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-07-24 13:09:42 UTC ]
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