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Artist Relief Distributes $13.5 Million in Pandemic Grants
The funding initiative, created to assist artists suffering under the pandemic, has distributed more than $13.5 million in emergency grants to more than 2,700 individuals since it was launched in April.
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Sargent Leaving Macmillan
Citing “disagreements regarding the direction of Macmillan,” Holtzbrinck announced this morning that John Sargent will leave as CEO of the company at the end of the year.
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HC, S&S Name Company-Wide Diversity Executives
As part of an industry-wide effort to reckon with issues of diversity in trade book publishing, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have each named new high-ranking staffers to address issues of diversity at their companies.
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Gebremedhin Joins Doubleday; Puopolo Promoted
Doubleday has announced several editorial promotions, in addition to a new executive hire.
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'PW' Announces New Nonfiction Reviews Editor, Writer-at-Large
Harmony Difo joins 'Publishers Weekly' as nonfiction reviews editor, replacing Mark Rotella, who left the magazine earlier this summer. Zoe Christen Jones has been hired in a newly created writer-at-large position, which includes a new magazine column on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the book business.
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Meet the Agent: Tanya McKinnon
As readers look to understand America’s current period of social crisis and street protest, agent Tanya McKinnon, founder and principal of McKinnon Literary, aims to deliver the right books to them.
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Dana Canedy Named Publisher at S&S
Dana Canedy, a former 'New York Times' journalist who has been the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes since 2017, has been named senior v-p and publisher of the S&S imprint, effective July 27.
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Red Sofa Literary Principal Threatens to Sue Other Agents, Author
An attorney representing Dawn Frederick of Red Sofa Literary threatened two agents and an author with legal action unless they retract tweets casting aspersions upon Frederick and desist from further tweets.
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Schroder, Edelstein Join Scribd
Scribd has named Charlie Schroder head of domestic content acquisition and new verticals, and appointed Liz Edelstein as its director of original content strategy and operations.
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Three Agents Resign After Red Sofa Literary Owner's Tweet
Three literary agents affiliated with Red Sofa Literary, a boutique agency in St. Paul, Minn., resigned this past weekend after its principal tweeted that she was calling police to report looting on her block.
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