Why Don’t Publishers Fact Check Memoirs More Closely?

Writing for The Atlantic, Kate Newman wonders why memoirs aren't fact-checked more closely and questions whether a lack of resources is really to blame. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, Somali refugee turned congresswoman, to publish memoir in 2020 

Rep. Ilhan Omar, who made headlines last November after becoming the first Somali American ever elected to the U.S. Congress, will tell her life story in an upcoming memoir, Forbes reports. Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, is writing "This Is What America Looks Like" for publisher Dey Street... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook rolls out fact-checking operation in UK

Social network brings in independent charity in attempt to tackle misinformationFacebook’s fact-checking operation is launching in the UK, with the independent charity Full Fact selected to be the first British publisher to review and rate the accuracy of content on the social network.Posts,... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Grand Central Publishing to Close Life & Style Imprint

Grand Central Publishing will absorb its Life & Style imprint into the flagship GCP list at the end of 2018. The reorganization will result in a few job cuts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Octopus scoops forensic psychologist’s memoir after five-publisher auction

Octopus has bought the autobiography of forensic psychologist Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind, after a five-publisher auction.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael O’Mara to publish memoir of Orkney GP

Michael O’Mara will next year publish a memoir by Malcolm Alexander, the only doctor on the Orkney island of Eday. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael O’Mara to publish Rachael Bland memoir

Michael O’Mara will next February publish the memoir of Rachael Bland, who documented her cancer journey on the ‘You, Me and the Big C’ podcast.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trigger to publish memoir from adventurer Staniforth

Independent mental health publisher Trigger has acquired a new memoir on the synergy between outdoor adventure and mental wellbeing from adventurer, athlete and inspirational speaker Alex Staniforth. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury to publish 'inspiring memoir' from fashion designer Jenny Packham

Ebury Press has acquired the first book by fashion designer Jenny Packham - a meditation on the power of clothes and why we love them, titled How to Make a Dress. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac to publish Stormy Daniels memoir

A tell-all memoir from adult film star Stormy Daniels, who is alleged to have had an affair with Donald Trump, is to be published next month by Pan Macmillan in the UK and Macmillan Group stablemate St Martin’s Press in America. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers respond to Bland's 'moving' memoir

Rachael Bland’s memoir, For Freddie, was submitted to publishers at the start of the week, and already has one publisher offer on the table, Bland's agent has confirmed. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph to publish Sue Perkins' travel memoir

Michael Joseph is publishing a new travel-inspired memoir from Sue Perkins called East of Croydon: blunderings through India and South East Asia. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC radio presenter Bland in ‘race against time’ to publish memoir

BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Rachael Bland, who has incurable cancer, is in a "race against time" to publish a memoir for her two-year-old son, Freddie. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Europe’s Transbook Project Closes: Four Years in Digital Publishing for Children

In its four years, the partners brought together by the Transbook project based in children's literature, tried to learn 'what is the digital model in the publishing industry?' The post Europe’s Transbook Project Closes: Four Years in Digital Publishing for Children appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Acting legend Michael Caine to publish new memoir with Hodder

Actor Michael Caine is publishing his first book since his 2010 autobiography The Elephant to Hollywood (Hodder) in his 85th year this October.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This Publisher Foresaw an Internet of Fiction Mixed With Fact

Facebook has had some bumpy years. Critics, especially Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp CEO Robert Thomson, have no intention of letting the crisis go to waste. Continue reading at Wired

[ Wired | 2018-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rider to publish memoir of exonerated death row inmate

Rider is publishing the memoir of a former death row inmate, one of the longest-serving, falsely imprisoned individuals in American history, Anthony Ray Hinton. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Conservative Weekly Standard to aid in Facebook fact-checks, prompting outcry

Magazine dubbed ‘serial misinformer’ becomes first explicitly partisan organization to aid in task, fueling concerns over rightwing influence at siteA conservative news organization has been approved to partner with Facebook to fact-check false news, drawing criticisms that the social media... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sally Field to Publish Memoir in 2018

Sally Field said she spent more than five years writing her memoir, titled “In Pieces.” Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2017-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HQ to publish Rose McGowan memoir in UK

HarperCollins imprint HQ is to be the UK publisher for Brave, the "courageous" memoir and manifesto from former actress Rose McGowan. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan US closes self-publishing platform Pronoun

Macmillan Publishers in the US is closing its self-publishing platform, Pronoun, bought in May of last year.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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