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PubTech Connect: Meet Jay Lauf of Atlantic Media and Sam Olstein of GE, Pioneers Who Revitalize Legacy Brands
Through disruptive thinking, Jay Lauf and Sam Olstein have taken two of America's oldest brands to the forefront of media
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PubTech Connect: Meet Five Digital Power Players Who Know How To Reach New Audiences
Top Execs from Time Inc., HarperCollins, Mailchimp, Wired, and Vice will share the secrets of global brand growth at PTC.
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PubTech Connect: Meet Internet Visionary Jim Bankoff, CEO of Vox Media and Keynote Speaker
Jim Bankoff turned Vox into a content juggernaut, a purpose-built digital media company; at PubTech Connect, he’ll discuss what it takes to build the media company of the future
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PubTech Connect: Digital Giants Sree Sreenivasan and Kinsey Wilson Talk Tech in Opening Keynote
Sree Sreenivasan and Kinsey Wilson, two titans of digital media, are revolutionizing New York City and the ‘New York Times’ for the digital age
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PubTech Connect: Meet Kathryn Minshew, Sage of the Millennial Workforce
Co-founder and CEO of The Muse, Kathryn Minshew knows what today’s young workers are looking for in their careers, and what companies need to do to attract the best of them.
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PubTech Connect: Meet Ian Schafer, Digital Advertising Wiz
Ian Schafer, founder and chairman of Deep Focus, the innovative, digitally-led advertising agency, knows how to help brands sell themselves on screens.
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Rethinking the Publishing Conference Model
Why book publishing needs more and better-structured educational content.
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ALA 2016 Kicks Off in Orlando
The 2016 American Library Association Annual Conference officially kicks off today in Orlando, with a keynote by author and public intellectual Michael Eric Dyson.
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London Book Fair 2016: What If Books Could Write Themselves?
On Tuesday, in the first session in the London Book Fair's Interactive Theater, Guy Gadney, CEO and Founder of To Play For, said technology is beginning to emerge that will "create a new publishing form."
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London Book Fair 2016: Librarians Respond to Hachette CEO's IPA Speech
The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) is pushing back against Hachette CEO Arnaud Nourry's suggestion that proposed "vast exceptions to copyright law for libraries," would devastate European publishers.
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Anderson Cooper Delights Librarians at 2016 PLA Conference Opener
In a packed auditorium, Cooper talked about the book he co-wrote with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, out this week.
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ALA 2016 Midwinter Meeting: Ken Burns Talks About the Creative Process
In a fascinating talk, Ken Burns, Terry Tempest Williams, and Mark Kurlansky delved deep into the creative process.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: At Opening, Salman Rushdie Defends Free Speech
Amid tight security, author Salman Rushdie told reporters that the publishing world must continue to defend free speech.
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ALA 2015: Graphic Novels Mark Diversity, Push Boundaries
Graphic novels had their biggest presence ever at ALA 2015, with panels showcasing diversity in comics, appearances by acclaimed artists, and programming that addressed the rising threat of censorship.
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ALA 2015: ALA Awards Will Eisner Library Grants
Libraries in Arizona and New York were each picked to receive nearly $7,000 in books and vouchers to promote graphic novels and build comics collections.
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ALA 2015: Gloria Steinem Says 'Librarians Saved My Life'
Steinem talked about her nomadic childhood and read from her upcoming memoir 'Diary of a Nomad: My Life on the Road.'
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ALA 2015: On E-books, Libraries Pushing For Options
Digital Content Working Group co-chair Carolyn Anthony told members that ALA officials were "continuing to dialogue" with the Big Five publishers over e-book prices.
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ALA 2015: Pelosi Honors Baltimore Librarians for 'Heroic' Work During Unrest
Librarians from the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Pennsylvania Avenue Branch, at the epicenter of the protests in Baltimore this spring, were honored for their work.
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ALA 2015: Sloan, Knight Foundation Grants For Digital Public Library of America
The two new awards, coupled with significant earlier support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities, will help to establish the growth of DPLA’s "service hubs."
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ALA 2015: On a Historic Day, Roberta Kaplan Delivers a Powerful Keynote
Roberta Kaplan, who argued the historic defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, offered a powerful opening keynote speech at the 2015 ALA annual conference in San Francisco, just hours after a historic Supreme Court decision legalized same-sex marriage.