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The Punch
April 23, 2018
Femi Makinde, Osogbo. The Publisher of the Nigerian News Direct Newspaper, Dr. Samuel Ibiyemi, and a former Political Editor of the Nigerian Tribune, Mr. Olawale Rasheed, have shown their interest in contesting the governorship election in Osun State in order to succeed the incumbent Governor RaufÃâà...
Digiday
April 23, 2018
“We're seeing premium publishers become a much bigger portion of our network over time.” But they have a common goal: Entice the more premium publishers that Outbrain and Taboola once tempted with large checks. For years, the two companies built their market share through publisher guarantees,Ãâà...
Traverse City Record Eagle
April 23, 2018
Technological advances in printing have helped small book publishers. "Amazon's printing division, called CreateSpace, just opened up publishing on a do-it-yourself level," said Shaw. Printing a book on a traditional printing press is cost-effective only with a large quantity. Digital printing services likeÃâà...
The Independent
April 23, 2018
Still, Martin Lewis's case is a reminder that Facebook isn't just a thorn in the side of news publishers, but also of law-abiding individuals who are taken in by duff content, or whose reputations are besmirched by them. In the final analysis, Zuckerberg and his executives need to get a grip before the circlingÃâà...
Publishers Weekly
April 22, 2018
Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 82 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description provided by its author. Some of these writers are waiting to be discovered; others have track records and followings andÃâà...
FOX13 Memphis
March 23, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) - The publisher of an investigative book on blood testing startup Theranos has moved up the release date from October to this spring. "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" was written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Carreyrou, who in The Wall Street Journal firstÃâà...
MarTech Today
March 23, 2018
“For way too long, publishers were dependent on social platforms to give their end users access to the interactive mobile web experience they had come to expect,” said David Kashak, CEO of Connatix. “The problem with this structure is that these walled gardens siphoned all of the ad revenue and data.
Variety
March 23, 2018
New York Media, the publisher New York Magazine, Vulture, and the Cut, has acquired comedy-news site Splitsider from the Awl Network. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. New York Media will merge Splitsider, which launched in 2010, into Vulture.com as part of a new comedy section expected toÃâà...
AdExchanger
March 23, 2018
A few years ago, every publisher wanted to manage their own Hadoop cluster. Many publishers and ad tech companies leaped at the chance to manage data themselves but soon became overwhelmed with the costs and complexity of managing and growing their Hadoop configurations to keep data safeÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 23, 2018
But when it comes to third-party websites and apps that use Google's ad technology to sell ads, the tech giant wants those publishers to be responsible for obtaining consent. Google's new policy could add further confusion to a compliance process for publishers that is already very complicated.
Business Insider
March 23, 2018
The tech platforms don't support publishers in the digital age so much as they compete with them. On the basis that publishers' fundamental currency is attention, Google and Facebook have done this far better than any publisher. Likewise, even multi-million-dollar journalism initiatives are barely a spending blip for the techÃâà...
Digiday
March 23, 2018
But the beauty- and wellness-focused publisher surveys its readers about products at the behest of its largest advertisers. Plantan said the moderators tell readers when those discussions will be shared with brands. Because group members tend to be highly engaged readers, publishers also see groups asÃâà...
Digiday
March 22, 2018
News publishers have been dubious about personalizing their editorial content in the past. But now that they're embracing loyalty metrics and trying to grow subscription revenue, they're giving personalization a new look. The New York Times is considering testing personalizing its pages based on factorsÃâà...
El Paso Inc.
March 13, 2018
I was carpooling a pair of 10-years-olds from soccer practice the other night when the subject of news and newspapers came up. The conversation headed into a diatribe about why anyone would buy a newspaper when you can just get all your news on your phone for free. It's hard not to be offended, butÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
March 13, 2018
A quarter of a century ago, Kristi Parker was tired of living up to other people's expectations. She was an oil and gas accountant who yearned to live another life — one that didn't include having to wear dresses to work. She wanted to fall in love with whom she wanted, bring people together through storiesÃâà...
Tulsa World (blog)
March 13, 2018
Representatives from several publishing entities will answer questions from prospective authors at the fourth annual Meet the Publishers event. The free event will be 6 p.m. Thursday, March 15, at the Martin Regional Library, 2601 S. Garnett Road. It is sponsored by Designing the World with Words and theÃâà...
eMarketer
March 13, 2018
Fewer major publishers of premium digital content now believe display advertising on its own can cover the cost of producing quality content, let alone bring a profit. The reality that premium content is expensive to produce, combined with cluttered ad experiences that drive readers away, has forcedÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 13, 2018
Sherman Alexie at Indigenous Peoples' Day at Seattle's City Hall on Oct. 10, 2016. The paperback edition of his memoir "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" has been delayed following allegations of sexual harassment. He has issued a statement acknowledging wrongdoing. (Elaine ThompsonÃâà...
WIRED
March 13, 2018
Data from Parse.ly, which tracks visits to more than 2,500 publisher sites, shows that ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, more than 40 percent of traffic to those sites came from Facebook. By the end of 2017, Facebook accounted for less than 26 percent of traffic to those publishers. That trend willÃâà...
Digiday
March 12, 2018
The big shift last year in terms of referral traffic was Facebook declining as a source of traffic for publishers while Google surpassed it. ... With Pincodes, Pinterest gets more exposure for its brand in the pages of magazines and elsewhere, and the publisher gets to provide its readers with another utility.
Sacramento Bee
March 10, 2018
No news story was too small for Roy Herburger. Family reunions, jump rope contests, parades, school board meetings – Herburger was always there, camera strapped around his neck. The longtime publisher of the Elk Grove Citizen and Galt Herald died Sunday at age 87 after a long battle withÃâà...
Publishers Weekly
March 10, 2018
PW “All Access” site license members have access to PW's subscriber-only website content. Simply close and relaunch your preferred browser to log-in. To find out more about PW's site license subscription options please email: pw@pubservice.com. If you have questions or need assistance setting up yourÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
March 10, 2018
O.J. Simpson allegedly confessed to the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, the publisher of his 2006 book about the killings claims in a new TV special. Twelve years ago, Simpson sat down with former HarperCollins publisher Judith Regan for an interview to promote theÃâà...
Mashable
March 10, 2018
It's been a rocky year in Facebook and publisher relations, but the social network has a new — very blunt — message for struggling publishers: it's probably your fault. Speaking at a panel at South by Southwest, Facebook's head of news products, Alex Hardiman, had some strong words for critics who sayÃâà...
CNNMoney
March 9, 2018
Hardiman denied that its recent algorithm shifts are solely responsible for driving publishers out of business. Digital publisher LittleThings shut down at the end of February and cited Facebook's algorithm changes as a main cause of its closure. Hardiman said publishers who blame Facebook for their issuesÃâà...
The Straits Times
March 9, 2018
BEIJING (REUTERS) - China on Friday (March 9) rejected a Swedish complaint that it did not allow a Swedish doctor to see a detained Swedish book publisher, saying he had requested not to see the doctor. Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong-based, Swedish publisher of books critical of China's leaders, wasÃâà...
The Verge
March 9, 2018
EA has announced that it's opening up its Origin Access PC gaming subscription service to other publishers, with games from Warner Bros. ... If EA can establish itself as a Netflix-esque one-stop shop for PC gaming needs (including a massive, cross-publisher library), it could be just the thing to bring OriginÃâà...
TechCrunch
March 9, 2018
Google's AMP project is not uncontroversial. Users often love it because it makes mobile sites load almost instantly. Publishers often hate it because they feel like they are giving Google too much control in return for better placement on its search pages. Now Google proposes to bring some of the lessons itÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 9, 2018
Publishers rejected her, Christians attacked her: The deep faith of 'A Wrinkle in Time' author Madeleine L'Engle. Publishers rejected her, Christians ... It took 26 publisher rejections before Madeleine L'Engle could finally get “A Wrinkle in Time” into print in 1962. The book was an instant hit, winning theÃâà...
Digiday
March 9, 2018
At the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe last month in Monaco, we sat down with over 80 European publishing executives to learn more about how publishers are adapting their strategies to Facebook's news feed algorithm change. Check out our earlier research on the video platform publishers areÃâà...
New York Times
March 9, 2018
During a publishing career that covers more than four decades, Mr. Galassi, 68, the publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, has often been hailed as one of the last living specimens of a dying breed of scholarly, old-fashioned publishing executives. A translator and poet who studied at Harvard with RobertÃâà...
Digiday
March 8, 2018
Over the past year, a media partnerships team of four has ramped up efforts to bind publisher content and Reddit users closer together. It has rolled out new features, including profile pages and native video hosting. It has also stepped up efforts to work with publishers on content-focused initiatives both onÃâà...
WIRED
March 7, 2018
A new proposal would grant publishers an antitrust exemption to seek concessions from tech giants, who dominate online advertising. .... “The challenge has been that no one publisher working with these online platforms has meaningful leverage in the face of their overwhelming market dominance,” sheÃâà...
Billboard
March 6, 2018
In turn, McAnally lists Big Loud among a handful of indie publishers that inspired his own company's growth. The building, coupled with the ACM nominations and the stability afforded by Osborne and Baum, finally has McAnally breathing a little easier about the unpredictable road he chose. "I've enjoyedÃâà...
The Herald Journal
March 6, 2018
The Adams Publishing Group Monday named Travis Quast as the regional president and publisher of the company's eastern Idaho publications including the Idaho State Journal in Pocatello, The Post Register in Idaho Falls, The Standard Journal in Rexburg and the Teton Valley News in Driggs. Quast willÃâà...
Columbia Journalism Review
March 6, 2018
As social platforms like Facebook and Twitter get bigger, so do their problems. One of the most urgent challenges platforms now face is balancing the quality of content they host with their commitment to providing a platform for everyone: From solving the spread of misinformation, to addressing harassmentÃâà...
AdExchanger
March 6, 2018
And, though numerous publishers are rethinking their digital distribution strategies (or going out of business) in light of Facebook's algorithm change, which deprioritized content from brands and publishers in the news feed, Guelton said SheKnows was not impacted. Facebook's percentage share of itsÃâà...
Digiday
March 6, 2018
The month had just ended, and Facebook's January news-feed change to prioritize user posts had taken its toll on viral publishers. Attn has become a top video producer on Facebook with 222 million views in January, per Tubular Labs, being named the No. 1 social publisher in 2016 by Newswhip for itsÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 6, 2018
His first job was at the Albany Enterprise, and before long he was publisher of the Grant County Herald. In 1988 he became the ... He was among the first publishers to bring electronic printing and publishing to rural Minnesota, and he was instrumental in bringing internet service to Sauk Centre. He wasÃâà...
Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
March 6, 2018
One proposed scenario for how to keep news readily available, suggested by a participant from the advertising industry, was having publishers provide two tiers of content: 1) free content supported by brand partnerships and 2) premium content that people pay for. A publisher participant said they wereÃâà...
The Outline
March 5, 2018
The Outline drew these conclusions after analyzing the Facebook engagement data of 20 publishers from March 5, 2017 to February 28, 2018. Research tool BuzzSumo measures Facebook engagement by adding up the total number of likes, shares, and comments received per post made by a publisherÃâà...
The Guardian
March 5, 2018
“Once everyone in the publishing house was paid, publishers' shareholders received up to three times the amount paid to authors. And authors still had to pay their own expenses and agents,” wrote Solomon, acknowledging that while “publishers may contest these numbers … we cannot break down theseÃâà...
Times Higher Education (THE)
December 31, 1999
In our view, the publisher of a journal retracting a paper for research malpractice should be obliged to alert other journals that have published papers by the same authors. In egregious cases, such as those involving data fabrication, those journals' editors should be required to audit the papers. RelatedlyÃâà...