On the heels of announcing her debut TV series, The Lisa Ekus Group has announced that Southern cooking authority, chef, and writer Virginia Willis has closed a deal with publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for her sixth cookbook. Her editor will be Cynthia Kitchel,...
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Bertelsmann Appoints New CFO
At its meeting today, the Bertelsmann Supervisory Board appointed Bernd Hirsch (45) as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Hirsch is scheduled to take up his new position as CFO of the international media, services and education group on April 1, 2016. He...
ASJA Joins Call for FOIA Reform
The American Society of Journalists and Authors joined more than 40 organizations committed to government openness and accountability in signing on to a letter to the leadership of the House of Representatives. The letter, which was coordinated by...
Library of America Launches New Film Feature
American literature has proven an endlessly renewable resource for filmmakers, its originality and vitality inspiring whole catalogues of memorable movies. Now Library of America, the acclaimed nonprofit publisher of the nation’s greatest writing, presents THE...
Words Without Borders Nominations Open for the 2016 Ottaway Award
Words Without Borders seeks nominations for the fourth annual Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature. The deadline to submit a nomination is Monday, February 15, 2016. The honoree will be announced in March. Named in honor of the first chair of...
Join Connie Harbison for BISG’s BISAC Subject Headings: 2015 Edition Webinar
512 additions, 75 literal changes, and 18 inactivations. Help is on the way. On January 27th from 1-2 pm and Februrary 24th from 1-2 pm, please join Connie Harbison, Chair of BISG's Subject Codes Committee, for guidance and discussions centered around migrating from...
E & P Seeks Next Generation Newspaper Leaders
Editor & Publisher magazine is scouting for the next generation of newspaper publishing leaders, and asks for your help. They are seeking people who are young, bright, and capable of tackling whatever the changing newspaper climate throws at them. People with...
Ingram to Support Book Tech Startups
From Memphis to Zimbabwe, seven book tech startups come to Nashville for business-building program NASHVILLE, Tenn. (January 20, 2016) – Seven book tech startups from around the world have been selected to participate in Ingram Content Group’s and the Nashville...
Journalism School and Marketer Create Social Media Curriculum
New Advanced Social Media Strategies Course Immerses Students in an Agency Environment Columbia, Mo. (Jan. 12, 2015) – A new innovative partnership between the Missouri School of Journalism and global marketing agency VML will serve as a professional training program...
IWMF Seeks Nominations For Courage In Photojournalism Award
THREE AWARDS HONOR EXEMPLARY WOMEN JOURNALISTS; FEBRUARY DEADLINES FOR ALL NOMINATIONS WASHINGTON – The International Women’s Media Foundation is seeking nominations for its three annual awards: the 2016 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, the Courage...
