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November 17, 2016

Thursday News: NYT to cut arts coverage, National Book Awards, benign book reviewing, and digital security while protesting

JanetPublishing Newsarts coverage / digital security / National Book Awards / New-York-Times / Reviewing / Wall Street Journal5 Comments

New York Times & Wall Street Journal Prepare To Slash Entertainment Coverage And Staff As Print Ads Vanish – Despite denials from the paper itself, the New York Times is, according to multiple sources, preparing to vastly reduce their arts coverage (they already cut their tri-state coverage earlier this fall). The Wall Street Journal ... more >

September 24, 2015

Thursday News: Harry Potter, broadband, data journalism, and Library of Babel

JanetPublishing Newsbroadband / digital library / free content / Harry-Potter / journalism / Library of Babel / music / New-York-Times / utilitiesComments Off on Thursday News: Harry Potter, broadband, data journalism, and Library of Babel

New Harry Potter story revealed by JK Rowling is FREE to read – The Harry Potter website, Pottermore.com, is relaunching with new features and new content, including a free story from J.K. Rowling, as part of what the site’s CEO describes as Rowling “expand[ing] her magical universe” (does this mean more ... more >

August 19, 2015

Wednesday News: Amazon, the New York Times, algorithms, book tours, and “female Viagra”

JanetPublishing Newsalgorithms / Amazon / big data / book tours / gender sex / Jeff Bezos / journalism / New-York-Times / Promotion / washington post7 Comments

Hacking through Amazon’s jungle of coverage -Much has been written about Amazon and about the New York Times’ recent piece on Amazon’s work culture, with even the paper’s own Margaret Sullivan suggesting that the article needed more “irrefutable proof” and less “generalization and anecdote.” That I found some of the insights ... more >

August 14, 2015

Friday News: Digital development, new Tolkien story, fictional languages, and printing the old-fashioned way

JanetPublishing Newsdigital divide / documentary / Facebook / languages / linotype / New-York-Times / newspaper / technology / Tolkien8 Comments

Digital Fairness vs. Facebook’s Dream of World Domination – A provocative article on the willingness of private industry to try to narrow the global digital breach. While the public sector has a strong vested interest in digital fairness and broad-based access, it has largely been the private sector that has ... more >

July 30, 2014

Wednesday News: The Plagiarism Edition

JanetPublishing NewsBBC / Buzzfeed / History / New-York-Times / plagiarism / research / science / Sports / Wikipedia / World War I9 Comments

The ravages of BuzzFeed’s Benny Johnson – This story has catalyzed a lot of debate about both the nature of plagiarism and the nature of (largely non-journalistic) Internet reporting. Benny Johnson, a 28-year-old writer for BuzzFeed, who has produced a tremendous amount of quirky content for the site, has been ... more >

December 6, 2013

Friday News: An author’s writing process, DBW survey results, fan fiction makes the NYT, a blast from your reading past, and some clever bookish gifts

JanetPublishing Newsdigital publishing / fan-fiction / gift guide / New-York-Times25 Comments

How I Write: James McBride, The New National Book Award Winner For Fiction – This is a really interesting interview with National Book Award winner James McBride (for his novel, The Good Lord Bird), about his writing process. Because McBride is a musician, he finds it “work” to listen to ... more >

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