tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60836590189809565082024-03-06T04:16:41.090-05:00BookcurrentsOccasional thought-waves about publishing and reading digitallyPeter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-88282180086016215042022-04-12T10:34:00.001-04:002022-04-13T10:37:12.098-04:00AP publishes Jill Biden biography<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <i>Originally posted on AP.org</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3a40;"><b>The Associated Press and publisher Little, Brown and Company will release next week a deeply reported biography on first lady Jill Biden.</b></span></span></p><div itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3a40; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Jill: A Biography of the First Lady” reveals some of the private sides of a public figure who has often been described as President Joe Biden’s greatest political asset.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3nMI3gpdLPWQFkzr8RELrBgCm8YqEiamzq-TjKXx-YpI2eDHYfqrHZlfyc39R-S7lFnDMNs9rlsRESKyNPKj0LRA-cVPxw4A_HaitGDZIZUNQc0r56k3ReWl00_ZW40ipoZ7M8MX-wPZ_Tw5m48RxAOgz-znyD5JZZ9xbTz8mZ-h5jXLNho4xNkD27g/s2850/Pace&Superville_JILL_HC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2850" data-original-width="1838" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3nMI3gpdLPWQFkzr8RELrBgCm8YqEiamzq-TjKXx-YpI2eDHYfqrHZlfyc39R-S7lFnDMNs9rlsRESKyNPKj0LRA-cVPxw4A_HaitGDZIZUNQc0r56k3ReWl00_ZW40ipoZ7M8MX-wPZ_Tw5m48RxAOgz-znyD5JZZ9xbTz8mZ-h5jXLNho4xNkD27g/s320/Pace&Superville_JILL_HC.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Written by Julie Pace, AP executive editor and former Washington bureau chief, and AP White House reporter Darlene Superville, the portrait of Biden centers on her role as a wife, mother and grandmother, but also as a professor who earned a doctorate in educational leadership. Biden is the first to hold a paying job outside the White House as first lady, teaching at Northern Virginia Community College.</span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“This profile of first lady Jill Biden puts her personality into focus, helping readers understand how she managed to hold the Biden family together through tragedy and good fortune alike,” said Peter Costanzo, AP director of books and podcasts. “We are excited to work with Little, Brown and Company on this informative biography.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Little, Brown and Company is proud to publish this definitive biography of First Lady Jill Biden. Despite being in the public eye for decades, many Americans are still getting to know her and to understand why she is so widely popular,” said Bruce Nichols, senior vice president and publisher of Little, Brown and Company.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Jill: A Biography of the First Lady” will be released on April 19 and is currently available in hardcover, e-book and audio, wherever books are sold.</span></p></div><footer style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3a40; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">About AP</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. Online: <a href="http://www.ap.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.ap.org</a></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">About Little, Brown and Company</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Founded in 1837, Little, Brown has long been recognized as a publisher committed to publishing fiction of the highest quality fiction and nonfiction of lasting significance. Hachette Book Group is a leading trade publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world. <a href="http://www.littlebrownandcompany.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.littlebrownandcompany.com</a></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Contact</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lauren Easton<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Global Director of Media Relations and Corporate Communications<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Associated Press<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />212-621-7005<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="mailto:leaston@ap.org" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">leaston@ap.org</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nicole Meir<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Media Relations Manager<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Associated Press<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />212-621-7536<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="mailto:nmeir@ap.org" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">nmeir@ap.org</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Katharine Myers<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Senior Director, Publicity<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Little, Brown and Company<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="mailto:Katharine.myers@hbgusa.com" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Katharine.myers@hbgusa.com</a></span></p></footer>Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-67416292324585845772021-11-03T10:28:00.001-04:002022-04-13T10:33:34.895-04:00AP publishes new book on first prominent civilian executed in Iranian Revolution<p> <i>Originally posted on AP.org</i></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #3f3a40; font-family: inherit;"><br />The Associated Press has published a new book on a transformative business and civic leader who became the first prominent civilian executed in the 1979 Iranian Revolution.</b></p><div itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3a40; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<a href="https://www.ap.org/books/titan-of-tehran" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Titan of Tehran: From Jewish Ghetto to Corporate Colossus to Firing Squad - My Grandfather’s Life</a>" is a deeply reported biography recounting the life and death of Habib Elghanian, a self-made industrialist and well-known figure in Iran’s Jewish community. It also brings Iran’s modern-day economic, political and social problems into focus.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTk2FSx11S58mhrzjP65YGW9e7KSMknXXhq2HDKYkrBKiVNu_620Id0ThTgBkNQqHaeI5-S_L4ijuepNxnyuMTXcOW_prVfT50_ZzAQAD-rl9pxSALjjBVjE8Qw2tXOlzSxkmGi77k5kfJI84Vql3g0JWMYc1RHSNSmZ28118bjeQjweXZXUtqQuN9rA/s2700/TitanOfTehran_Cover-Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTk2FSx11S58mhrzjP65YGW9e7KSMknXXhq2HDKYkrBKiVNu_620Id0ThTgBkNQqHaeI5-S_L4ijuepNxnyuMTXcOW_prVfT50_ZzAQAD-rl9pxSALjjBVjE8Qw2tXOlzSxkmGi77k5kfJI84Vql3g0JWMYc1RHSNSmZ28118bjeQjweXZXUtqQuN9rA/s320/TitanOfTehran_Cover-Final.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Written by his granddaughter, former AP photo editor Shahrzad Elghanayan, the book reconstructs and chronicles Elghanian’s ascent from Tehran’s Jewish quarter – “the edge of the pit” – to his business success, which was instrumental in modernizing the country, to fatefully facing a firing squad. Parts of the book read like passages in a thriller, while exploring universal themes of loss and longing, belonging and identity.</span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We are very proud to bring to light an in-depth accounting of the events that occurred before and after this injustice,” said Peter Costanzo, AP director of programming. “The author’s commitment to ensure her grandfather’s legacy is portrayed accurately and not forgotten is palpable and woven throughout the book.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Titan of Tehran” serves as a monument to a man who might have disappeared in the mists of history, even though his execution was reported worldwide on newspaper front pages and in broadcast news reports.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book features a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner and former AP correspondent Charles J. Hanley and more than 60 photographs from the AP Images archives, the author’s personal collection and other sources.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Titan of Tehran” is now available wherever books are sold.</span></p></div><footer style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3a40; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">About AP</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. Online: <a href="http://www.ap.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.ap.org</a>.</span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Contact</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lauren Easton<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Global Director of Media Relations and Corporate Communications<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Associated Press<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />212-621-7005<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="mailto:leaston@ap.org" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">leaston@ap.org</a></span></div></footer>Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-70357159615252168502021-08-31T10:20:00.001-04:002022-04-13T10:26:55.288-04:00AP book examines impeachment of Brazil’s 1st woman president<p><i> Originally posted on AP.org</i></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #3f3a40; font-family: inherit;"><br />NEW YORK – A new book from The Associated Press explores and brings to life the dramatic and divisive impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first woman president.</b></p><div itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3a40; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Dilma's Downfall: The Impeachment of Brazil’s First Woman President and the Pathway to Power for Jair Bolsonaro’s Far-Right,” chronicles the ouster of former President Rousseff, which many Brazil watchers cite as a root cause of some of the biggest problems plaguing Latin America’s largest nation today.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Through interviews with key players, including Rousseff, deep research and personal experience covering Rousseff’s impeachment in 2016, Sao Paulo-based correspondent Mauricio Savarese and former Brazil Bureau Chief Peter Prengaman present a detailed and essential examination of this critical period in Brazil’s history. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvS84F6i4yfqvS2df7GY0eXSz8IFp7_r4XmJ_J7yjCY5MbGSFeHetORPg02hNuS6KmAGCw0_WA9d8wu_QIWZ4lo6u7g39PPmi62vamZwKCxLAd9LVRq1M8F-KG6mxeDSrCRPo3LXk3YfgqLs_26RByF2P6HtMa0v8TdC9s2Mgie7QaymOI075qwxbpQ/s2700/Dilma's%20Downfall_Front%20Cover_Hi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvS84F6i4yfqvS2df7GY0eXSz8IFp7_r4XmJ_J7yjCY5MbGSFeHetORPg02hNuS6KmAGCw0_WA9d8wu_QIWZ4lo6u7g39PPmi62vamZwKCxLAd9LVRq1M8F-KG6mxeDSrCRPo3LXk3YfgqLs_26RByF2P6HtMa0v8TdC9s2Mgie7QaymOI075qwxbpQ/s320/Dilma's%20Downfall_Front%20Cover_Hi.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book outlines the rise and fall of Rousseff, a former Marxist guerilla turned politician, along the way showing how betrayal, deep frustration with her handling of the economy and bare-knuckled politics fueled the ouster of a democratically elected president based on controversial accusations of mismanaging the federal budget. </span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“’Dilma’s Downfall’ provides a window into Brazil’s political divisions, corruption scandals and an economic slump that has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said AP Director of Programming Peter Costanzo. “Each chapter is a glimpse into the complex political culture of one of the world’s most racially diverse and famous countries.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prengaman and Savarese describe the larger-than-life personalities of the impeachment’s main players, including a backroom dealing vice president accused of leading the charge to oust his boss, and detail how the deeply polarizing process provided an opening for Brazil’s current president, Jair Bolsonaro, at the time a fringe lawmaker of Brazil’s far right.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">AP is releasing the book on Aug. 31, exactly five years after the Senate voted to remove her from office after the bruising process through much of 2016.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book looks at how Rousseff’s career trajectory, with complex turns that eventually ended in her impeachment, is also the story of modern Brazil and a cautionary tale on the fragility of democracy anywhere. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book includes dozens of photos by AP photographers, with curated galleries on Rousseff’s rise, the 9-month impeachment process and the aftermath. A foreword is written by New York Times Latin American and Caribbean Editor Juliana Barbassa, a former AP Brazil correspondent. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“<a href="https://www.ap.org/books/dilma-s-downfall" target="_blank">Dilma’s Downfall</a>” is available in paperback and e-book wherever books are sold.</span></p></div><footer style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3a40; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">About AP</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. Online: <a href="http://www.ap.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.ap.org</a></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Contact</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lauren Easton<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Global Director of Media Relations and Corporate Communications<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Associated Press<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />212-621-7005<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="mailto:leaston@ap.org" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">leaston@ap.org</a></span></p></footer>Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-69006341757265547422021-08-11T10:15:00.003-04:002022-04-13T10:27:40.644-04:00AP releases book marking 20th anniversary of 9/11<p><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Originally posted on AP.org</span></i></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3a40;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>The Associated Press has released a commemorative book marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.</b></span></span></p><div itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3a40; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In collaboration with Sterling Publishing, “<a href="https://www.ap.org/books/022.-september-11" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">September 11: The 9/11 Story, Aftermath and Legacy</a>,” is a comprehensive look at the 9/11 terrorist attacks as told through stories and photographs from AP covering everything from the events of that tragic day to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and beyond.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNR-Kx4L4ppvscBNICwv4Ox47JlyMzW0O_I1jVjWob3wgPUxAR9lYfapPiu88MlLlp-UDccvankwLA7hDZkqEuyNfeoevt9bjfDta2rSPvv1BpEj_EMAntvSk77TYIUSWy48sJIRNiNMr_o-bXYCKnuevPi_-Du4HNU5X2KIT-xSeGhLzlB7c1aP_kkA/s3338/September%2011%20Cover_FINAL.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3338" data-original-width="2822" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNR-Kx4L4ppvscBNICwv4Ox47JlyMzW0O_I1jVjWob3wgPUxAR9lYfapPiu88MlLlp-UDccvankwLA7hDZkqEuyNfeoevt9bjfDta2rSPvv1BpEj_EMAntvSk77TYIUSWy48sJIRNiNMr_o-bXYCKnuevPi_-Du4HNU5X2KIT-xSeGhLzlB7c1aP_kkA/s320/September%2011%20Cover_FINAL.jpg" width="271" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The volume includes breaking news reports and in-depth investigative pieces from the AP archives, ranging from AP’s wall-to-wall reporting on Sept. 11, 2001; coverage of the rescue efforts and aftermath; the world’s reaction and subsequent U.S. military operations; and the rebuilding of downtown New York.</span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“With this project, we set out to bring to life AP’s gripping coverage of that seismic day 20 years ago,” said AP Director of Programming Peter Costanzo. “‘September 11’ tells the many stories of 9/11—not only of the unprecedented horror of that morning, but also of the inspiring resilience and hope of the human spirit that followed.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book features a foreword by actor Robert De Niro.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“September 11: The 9/11 Story, Aftermath and Legacy,” is available now <a href="https://amzn.to/3eHu5S4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">online </a>and in hardcover wherever books are sold.</span></p></div><footer style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3a40; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">About AP</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. Online: <a href="http://www.ap.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.ap.org</a></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Contact</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lauren Easton<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Global Director of Media Relations and Corporate Communications<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Associated Press<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />212-621-7005<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="mailto:leaston@ap.org" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">leaston@ap.org</a></span></p></footer>Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-27783861178477643112021-03-19T13:57:00.002-04:002021-03-19T13:57:30.915-04:00AP publishes illustrated biography on photographer Nick Ut<p><i> Originally posted on AP.org</i></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3a40;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Associated Press has published an illustrated biography documenting the life and career of former AP photographer Nick Ut.</b></span></span></p><div itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3a40; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“From Hell to Hollywood: The Incredible Journey of AP Photographer Nick Ut” chronicles the lifelong adventure of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, including his teenage years in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, his time working at AP’s Saigon bureau and his eventual role covering celebrities and daily life in Los Angeles.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNYRCPyVGezKP2ZPUNXZHNxFduHlNQTomK9rjrX_UdMLTxcCUbZGY3RDvaYNNjVXgYE0eZPaLhbR3QlezgzZHgND_Bx4OCXa-DD_87-bX6FwB0Qea_L6VySG0rXhQ68cBsSJjRy06nyts/s2048/FHTH-Print+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1605" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNYRCPyVGezKP2ZPUNXZHNxFduHlNQTomK9rjrX_UdMLTxcCUbZGY3RDvaYNNjVXgYE0eZPaLhbR3QlezgzZHgND_Bx4OCXa-DD_87-bX6FwB0Qea_L6VySG0rXhQ68cBsSJjRy06nyts/s320/FHTH-Print+Cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It features more than 200 gripping photos made during his 51 years with AP.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“With this project, we set out to share the entirety of Nick Ut’s personal life and career at The Associated Press,” said AP Director of Programming Peter Costanzo. “Nick’s path is an inspirational tale of achievement against all odds, driven by his passion for photography and a desire to live life to the fullest.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ut is best known for his iconic Vietnam War photo of terrified 9-year-old Kim Phuc running scorched and naked from a napalm attack. “From Hell to Hollywood” recounts the moment Ut took the photograph and examines its impact on the world. The book also explores his continued friendship with Kim Phuc.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ut was hired by AP in Saigon in March 1966, replacing his older brother, Huynh Thanh My, who had been working as a photographer with AP and was killed by the Viet Cong in 1965.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After working in Vietnam, Ut did a stint at AP’s Tokyo bureau before relocating to Los Angeles in 1977. There he shot a wide variety of stories, from earthquakes to fires to celebrities to business to crime until his retirement from AP in 2017.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ut has won numerous prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Spot Photography — the youngest photographer to win the award — and the World Press Photo Award the same year, all for his photo of the young Kim Phuc.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In January 2021 Ut became the first journalist to win the <a href="https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2021/ap-photographer-nick-ut-receives-national-medal-of-arts" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">National Medal of Arts</a>, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the U.S. federal government.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“From Hell to Hollywood” is written by Hal Buell, former AP head of photography service and the author of “Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The book includes a foreword by former CBS News broadcaster Bob Schieffer and an afterword by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Peter Arnett.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is available now <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Hollywood-Incredible-Journey-Photographer/dp/0999035991" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">online</a> and in paperback wherever books are sold.</span></p></div><footer style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3f3a40; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">About AP</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. Online: <a href="http://www.ap.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.ap.org</a></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Contact</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Patrick Maks<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Media Relations Manager<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Associated Press<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />212-621-7536<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="mailto:%20pmaks@ap.org" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">pmaks@ap.org</a></span></p></footer><p><br /></p>Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-42048450238168132152020-11-10T15:01:00.002-05:002021-01-27T15:05:43.569-05:00Victory: World War II In Real Time<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i> Originally released by Sterling Publishing</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700;">"A vivid account that has something to please most WWII buffs."<br /> —</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Kirkus</span></p><p>
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">World War II is one of the most documented conflicts in history, but <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3lhHuBy" target="_blank">Victory</a> </span>brings to
life what is not so well-known: the story of the news as it unfolded while we fought
the fight. This stunning book commemorates the 75 anniversary of our victory in
World War II by covering 63 key events of the war from 1939 to 1945, plus includes
human-interest accounts, as reported by the intrepid wartime journalists and
photographers of The Associated Press—the main US chronicler of the conflict. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2eNi5lPvuF0Js4D6xpXZs_U7IrqziRV-SbbMJND96QkZcQt6Q_HSkJLFriasn_5N1oQSr8l3w3vvxUYOUGEa1fTwz_-S2znqhklkINyM6oy-6w4oOYec_iIsWEjg6CbX-LIOevbAuOyjM/s1690/Victory+Cover_FINAL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1690" data-original-width="1453" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2eNi5lPvuF0Js4D6xpXZs_U7IrqziRV-SbbMJND96QkZcQt6Q_HSkJLFriasn_5N1oQSr8l3w3vvxUYOUGEa1fTwz_-S2znqhklkINyM6oy-6w4oOYec_iIsWEjg6CbX-LIOevbAuOyjM/s320/Victory+Cover_FINAL.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
stories and photographs are presented in a breaking news format, organized by year,
so that readers of today can experience the scope of the war in the same way people
of that era learned of the events. The era is brought to life through vivid reportage
from original AP news articles, newspaper front pages and maps, and more than 220
photographs that captured the action—including rare and never-before-seen images.
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">This book is a keepsake that honors the courage, dedication, and sacrifice of the valiant millions who fought in,
reported on, and prevailed in this world-shattering war; it commemorates, as President Harry S. Truman
proclaimed, “the victory of liberty over tyranny.”
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Alan Axelrod </span>has written more than 100 books, including the CEO and Real History series, <span style="font-style: italic;">Disruptors</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Gilded Age</span>. He
was coauthor of the <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times </span>bestseller <span style="font-style: italic;">What Every American Should Know About American History </span>(with Charles
Phillips) as well as the <span style="font-style: italic;">Businessweek </span>bestsellers <span style="font-style: italic;">Patton on Leadership </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">Elizabeth I, CEO</span>.
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Associated Press </span>is an independent, not-for-profit news cooperative headquartered in New York City. The AP
teams in over 100 countries tell the world’s stories, from breaking news to investigative reporting. The AP provides
content and services to help engage audiences worldwide, working with companies of all types, from broadcasters to
brands.
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">David Eisenhower </span>is the Director of the Institute for Public Service at the Annenberg School of Communication at the
University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Eisenhower at War: 1943–1945</span>, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
in history in 1987 and <span style="font-style: italic;">Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961–1969</span>. Educated at
Philips Exeter Academy, Amherst College, and George Washington University Law School, he is the grandson of
President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Les Krantz, </span>producer and developer of <span style="font-style: italic;">Victory</span>, is an award-winning publisher and author and president of Facts That
Matter, Inc., a publishing company that produces books for The Associated Press and other notable organizations
including the BBC, the Smithsonian, the American Management Association, and the <span style="font-style: italic;">Wall Street Journal</span>. He has
appeared as a guest author numerous times on the <span style="font-style: italic;">Today Show</span>, CNN, NBC News, and other media. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Westwood One to Distribute, Monetize, and Market The All New Ground Game, AP’s Top 25 College Football, and AP’s Get Outta Here Podcasts</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">NEW YORK, NY – December 10, 2019 – CUMULUS MEDIA’s Westwood One, America’s largest audio network, and The Associated Press, the definitive source for news, are announcing Westwood One will exclusively distribute, monetize, and market three premium podcasts from AP.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The All New Ground Game explores the top issues in American politics, hosted by AP Washington Bureau Chief Julie Pace. Also joining Westwood One is AP’s Top 25 College Football with Ralph Russo, offering an inside look at college football, and the AP’s Get Outta Here, an award-winning podcast hosted by Warren Levinson for the causal or veteran traveler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“The Associated Press is an incredibly strong brand, showcasing talented hosts with a fresh point-of-view,” said Suzanne Grimes, EVP Marketing, CUMULUS MEDIA and President, Westwood One. “From Julie’s energetic and engaging news coverage, to Ralph’s experience, and Warren’s amazingly creative way with words, these shows will drive discussions and discovery in politics, sports, and travel today.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“We are very proud to be working with the team at Westwood One, who bring much more to the table in support of our podcasts than just distribution,” said Peter Costanzo, AP’s Director of Programming. “Westwood One has a genuine appreciation for the knowledge, perspective and expertise of our reporters and is helping raise awareness in the marketplace.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">About the Shows</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">● The All New Ground Game – Join Julie Pace, Washington Bureau Chief for The Associated Press, for a conversation with newsmakers and AP reporters in the field as they examine the top issues in American politics. Get ready for the 2020 Election -- from the ground up. <a href="https://appodcasts.com/category/ground-game/" target="_blank">Listen here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">● AP’s Top 25 College Football – With the help of players, coaches, TV analysts, school administrators, and NCAA officials, AP College Football Writer Ralph Russo tackles on-and off-field issues affecting the sport throughout the year. The show gives everyone from the casual fan to the obsessed alum an insider look into the AP Poll and all that is trending on campuses around the country. <a href="https://appodcasts.com/category/ap-top-25-college-football/" target="_blank">Listen here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">● AP’s Get Outta Here – This podcast features the latest travel news, trends and trip ideas, with host Warren Levinson calling on the experience of Associated Press correspondents all over the world. Whether you’re an armchair traveler or a frequent flyer, “Get Outta Here!” provides you with a weekly conversation about travel that’s informative, inspiring and fun. <a href="https://appodcasts.com/category/get-outta-here/" target="_blank">Listen here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These premium podcasts are available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">About AP</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP. On the web: <a href="http://www.ap.org/">www.ap.org</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">About Westwood One</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Westwood One, the national-facing arm of CUMULUS MEDIA, offers iconic, nationally syndicated sports, news and entertainment content to over 250 million monthly listeners across an audio network of nearly 8,000 affiliated broadcast radio stations and media partners. Westwood One is the largest audio network in America, home to premium content that defines the culture, including the NFL, the NCAA, the Masters, the Olympics, Westwood One Backstage, and the Academy of Country Music Awards. The rapidly growing Westwood One Podcast Network delivers popular network and industry personalities and programs. Westwood One connects listeners with their passions through programs and platforms that have everyone listening. For more information please visit <a href="http://www.westwoodone.com/">www.westwoodone.com</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Contact:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Suzy Schultz | Westwood One | sschultz@westwoodone.com | (212) 419-2905</span><br />
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Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-54769341903064362002019-07-18T10:53:00.003-04:002019-07-18T10:53:44.034-04:00AP publishes Apollo 11 biography for 50th anniversary<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Originally posted on AP.org</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3a40;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press has published “Apollo 11: An AP Special Anniversary Edition” to mark the 50th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The biography explores how the U.S. forged the necessary technology during the turbulent 1960s to allow man to set foot on the moon. It remembers those who sacrificed to make the great enterprise succeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The triumph of the astronauts, especially Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, was more than a victory for the U.S. It was also a milestone for mankind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“What makes this biography about the Apollo 11 mission special is its real-time approach to how the AP covered this historic event as it happened,” said Peter Costanzo, AP’s director of programming. “It also includes a section featuring original newspapers with headlines that captured the excitement of that pivotal moment back in 1969.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The space race began in 1957, when the Soviet Union hurled Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit. The U.S. took up the challenge to also explore the next frontier. A dozen years and $25 billion later, Apollo 11 landed on the moon and man set foot on the lunar surface for the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Apollo 11: An AP Special Anniversary Edition” features an introduction by AP Aerospace Correspondent Marcia Dunn, a photo gallery, and images of artifacts from the AP Corporate Archives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is available in paperback and e-book exclusively <a href="https://amzn.to/2YO4I7j" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">on Amazon</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP. On the web: <a href="https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ap.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7CLEaston%40ap.org%7C923b9ae87c294518d38008d6f9dd3f2d%7Ce442e1abfd6b4ba3abf3b020eb50df37%7C1%7C0%7C636971126077035554&sdata=Nw44IYYYHuN8gRT6jHoY34ISErnEyF1mYLG0lLTFcmc%3D&reserved=0" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.ap.org</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lauren Easton<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Director of Media Relations<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Associated Press<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />212-621-7005<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="mailto:leaston@ap.org" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">leaston@ap.org</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Patrick Maks<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Senior Communications Associate<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Associated Press<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />212-621-7536<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="mailto:pmaks@ap.org" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">pmaks@ap.org</a></span></div>
Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-6228725461980221842019-05-16T13:50:00.004-04:002019-05-16T13:52:12.915-04:00AP publishes biography of newspaper that illuminated Hitler’s rise to power<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Originally posted on AP.org</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3a40;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press has published a new biography about a German newspaper that exposed Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany during the 1930s despite persistent attempts to silence any paper that strove to report the truth.<br /></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Written by former AP reporter Terrence Petty, “Enemy of the People: The Munich Post and the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler” examines how the newspaper<i style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i>covered Hitler and the Nazi party, including telling readers how the country would change if he and the Nazis were to assume power.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFElmznyOyLGi3AYwP64mvwZ1yusyPVaCpHi2znthpT0t6bSZ8rBRR41ZGPaLcC5bVNcE23UhNznQsJpmxp3z8LJ3bKsAxGhMfL4W48utC31fAV8dit-m_wZ4I8jkaxiYL43gxrePgjrCO/s1600/EnemyPeople-webres.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFElmznyOyLGi3AYwP64mvwZ1yusyPVaCpHi2znthpT0t6bSZ8rBRR41ZGPaLcC5bVNcE23UhNznQsJpmxp3z8LJ3bKsAxGhMfL4W48utC31fAV8dit-m_wZ4I8jkaxiYL43gxrePgjrCO/s320/EnemyPeople-webres.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Often a lone but loud voice, the Munich Post’s reporting on the actions of Hitler and his regime was met with intense resistance. The Nazis decried the Post as the “Poison Kitchen” and as “enemies of the state and of the people” for its probing and critical coverage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ultimately Nazi forces would ransack and shut down the Munich Post in March 1933; a front-page headline published days before its shuttering read: “We Will Not Be Intimidated!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“This important and timely biography serves as a reminder that the freedom of the press is at the core of any democracy,” said Peter Costanzo, AP’s digital publishing specialist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Petty, the author, was an AP journalist for 35 years. He covered German and European affairs and traveled between East and West Germany throughout the Cold War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP. On the web: </span><a href="http://www.ap.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.ap.org</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><br /><b><br />Contact</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Senior Communications Associate<br />The Associated Press<br />212-621-7536<br /><a href="mailto:pmaks@ap.org" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">pmaks@ap.org</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3a40; font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>The Associated Press announced today it has published “World War I: An AP Centennial Commemorative Edition,” in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the end of the war that was supposed to end all wars.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3a40; font-family: inherit;">The new book collects a series of stories tracing the arc of the conflict, from Sarajevo where Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was slain, through the agony of trench warfare and America’s entry, which turned the tide against Germany and its allies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "freight text pro book" , serif;">W</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">orld War I began with stirring words of patriotism and ended with 14 million dead, empires destroyed and the social order torn asunder. It spurred revolutions and counter-revolutions across the world, paving the way for the tyranny of Hitler and Stalin and an even greater global slaughter, World War II, a generation later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“This project looks back at how the first World War impacted international relations in the immediate aftermath but also the ripple effect it continues to have on the current political landscape 100 years later,” said Peter Costanzo, AP digital publishing specialist. “It is a powerful reminder of how one major incident can change the course of history forever.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"World War I" features more than 130 photographs from the AP archives and a comprehensive timeline of events. It serves as a must-have for anyone interested in the history of military conflicts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The e-book is available now exclusively at <a href="https://amzn.to/2JGrx5U" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Amazon</a> and a paperback edition will soon follow. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3a40; font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP. On the web: </span><a href="https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2014/www.ap.org." style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">www.ap.org.</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NEW YORK CITY – </span><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On January 31, 2018, Serial Box and The Associated Press will launch </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1776: The World Turned Upside Down, </span><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a month by month immersive account of America in its first year. This series of twelve installments (in ebook and audio) is unique in its focus on the lives of ordinary colonists and the more personal stories of now-famed figures. The series is narrated by Robin Miles with guest voices including </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamilton </span><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">star Chris Jackson</span><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as George Washington, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamilton </span><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">star Nicholas Christopher</span><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as John Adams, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NPR On the Media’s Bob Garfield </span><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as Thomas Paine, and will be released in synchronized ebook and audio monthly installments from Serial Box throughout 2018. Readers and listeners will see that it was ordinary citizens—failed corset-makers like Thomas Paine, farmers, and high school dropouts—who persuaded a disparate group of colonies to unite into one country and fight for a brand-new idea: America.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">To understand the current divisiveness in America, it is helpful to look closely at the initial uniting of America’s colonies, and how that foundation led us to where we are today. In 1976, using this logic and to mark the bicentennial, the AP commissioned three of its top journalists including the late Sid Moody to write a month by month account of America in 1776. That lively text was made available in book that was given as a holiday gift to AP member media organizations, but it has never been available to the public until now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">Serial Box publishes a highly curated selection of series written by teams of critically acclaimed and bestselling writers. Serials are released through the Serial Box app(s), website, and third party retailers in weekly installments in both ebook and audio formats. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">Founded by Molly Barton and Julian Yap, Serial Box brings everything that’s awesome about TV to what people love about books. Every week, read or listen to gripping new episodes, carefully crafted by award-winning and bestselling teams of authors throughout seasons.
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</span>Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-74689541016868664102018-01-29T10:26:00.003-05:002018-02-01T10:26:00.946-05:00Tet Offensive account published by AP for 50th anniversary<i>Originally posted on AP.org</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3a40;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Associated Press has published “We’re Taking Fire: A Reporter’s View of the Vietnam War, Tet and the Fall of LBJ,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Peter Arnett, ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive.<br /></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This powerful account revisits Arnett’s coverage of the Vietnam War for AP, examining what led to the surprise attack that began in the early hours of Jan. 31, 1968, and became a turning point of the war, and the turbulent aftermath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">An eyewitness to the battles, maneuvers and cultural challenges that prevented a definitive victory, Arnett explores the complexities that drove the decisions made by the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations and how each was unable to achieve a winning strategy that would put an end to the unpopular war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Arnett, who reported on the Vietnam War for AP from 1962 until its end in 1975, offers a unique perspective that only someone who was on the ground can share, as well as sharp analysis shaped by observing U.S.-Vietnam relations in the decades after the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Peter Arnett’s account of the Tet Offensive is riveting from the first chapter,” said Peter Costanzo, AP digital publishing specialist. “His insights and observations as to how this pivotal moment impacted both U.S. strategy and Johnson’s presidency are invaluable, shedding light on lessons learned and lessons forgotten 50 years later.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Illustrating the compelling story are more than 50 images from AP’s photo archive and Arnett’s personal collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Arnett won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1966 for his Vietnam coverage. He later joined CNN and became well-known to TV audiences during the first Gulf War when he broadcast live from Baghdad during the U.S. raids. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“We’re Taking Fire” is available in paperback and as an e-book exclusively on <a href="http://amzn.to/2FhB6EY" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</span></div>
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</footer>Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-32861989778503901112017-05-23T11:26:00.000-04:002017-05-23T11:26:31.372-04:00JFK chronicle published by AP ahead of centennial<i style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.05px;">Originally posted on AP.org</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Associated Press has published “JFK: A Daily Chronicle of the White House Years,” an account of President John F. Kennedy’s 1,036 days as commander-in-chief, ahead of the 100th anniversary of his birth on May 29.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The chronicle, by Les Krantz with The Associated Press, is a complete timeline that recounts Kennedy’s brief but eventful presidency and the style and wit with which he shaped the hopes of a generation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Written in the present tense to capture the immediacy of the events, the day-by-day reports are drawn from coverage at the time, beginning with JFK’s inauguration through his assassination in November 1963.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Former AP Washington Bureau Chief Walter Mears writes in the introduction:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a time of hope, youthful leadership—JFK’s new generation in power—but with clouds. U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was beginning. Kennedy sent an increasing number of military advisors there, and they were the first Americans involved in combat. The civil rights issue was a growing problem. Kennedy sought legislation, but it would not come on his watch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to recounting crises such as the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the chronicle includes lighter dispatches, such as the Kennedys’ 1961 trip to France, during which the president memorably quipped: “I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“This comprehensive time capsule, told in real time, captures the youthful energy of JFK’s campaign and election as well as the mood of the country during times of tremendous challenges,” said Peter Costanzo, AP’s digital and archival publishing manager. “It’s a great addition to any Kennedy enthusiast’s library.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The book contains nearly 200 photographs from AP’s archives, as well as recollections from AP journalists and photographers who covered JFK during his presidential campaign and his short time in the White House.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“JFK: A Daily Chronicle of the White House Years” is <a href="https://www.ap.org/books/jfk/index.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">available in paperback and as an e-book</a> exclusively on Amazon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Associated Press and Diversion Books have published “Banned: Baseball’s Blacklist of All-Stars and Also-Rans,” a comprehensive history written by former AP sports writer Hal Bock.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From Shoeless Joe Jackson to Jenrry Mejia, Bock delves deep into the ball players, umpires, coaches and others who were suspended from the game temporarily or, in some cases, indefinitely, using colorful anecdotes to paint a vivid picture of baseball's scandalous past.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For those who follow the current corporate era of businessmen players and billionaire owners, "Banned" serves as a reminder that America's pastime evolved from the days when gamblers filled the stands and influenced poorly paid scoundrels on the diamond.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">John Thorn, Major League Baseball's official historian, writes in the introduction:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hal Bock has chosen a subject of enduring fascination. Most of those banned from baseball over the years have been minor figures and, except for antiquarians, are shrouded in the mists of time. Other, more formidable players, prompt us — even decades after their deaths — to ponder the frailty of man, shake our heads and think what might have been.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bock's thorough review spans from the late 1800s to present, covering everything from George Bechtel's expulsion for game fixing in 1876 — the first-ever player to be expelled — to the lifetime suspension handed down to Pete Rose in 1989 for betting on games, among other key moments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bock, a sports writer for more than 40 years, has covered myriad major sporting events, including 30 World Series, making him the ideal storyteller for this far-reaching retrospective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"This is a fascinating and fun read about baseball's underbelly," said Peter Costanzo, AP's digital publishing and archival manager. "Hal's knowledge of the game, its history and his reverence for those who play it is evident on every page."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Banned" includes an afterword by AP baseball writer Ronald Blum, as well as more than two dozen photographs from AP's archives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is <a href="https://www.ap.org/books/banned/index.html" target="_blank">available in paperback and as an e-book</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lauren Easton<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Director of Media Relations<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The Associated Press<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />212-621-7005<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="mailto:leaston@ap.org" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s;">leaston@ap.org</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Christine Saunders<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Diversion Books<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />212-961-6390 ext. 101<br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="mailto:christine@diversionbooks.com" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1ca7da; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s;">christine@diversionbooks.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Pearl Harbor: An AP Special Anniversary Edition” is a comprehensive account of the history and events leading up to the attack on Dec. 7, 1941, which led the U.S. into World War II. It also examines the relationship between the U.S. and Japan and details the beginning of America’s involvement in the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The anniversary edition features more than 75 iconic and rare photographs, artifacts from the AP Corporate Archives, a narrative from a reporter at AP’s Washington, D.C., bureau who got the first message about the attack on Pearl Harbor, and President Franklin Roosevelt’s Dec. 8, 1941, speech to Congress declaring America’s entry into World War II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Former AP war correspondent Richard Pyle writes in a new introduction:<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><i>Explosions reverberating from the vast naval bastion of Pearl Harbor left no doubt that the world</i></span><i><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">was suddenly and irretrievably a different place, that is until a new generation of Americans would experience another harrowing surprise attack on September 11, 2001, near New York Harbor in lower Manhattan. Again, nearly 3,000 people were killed, the U.S. went to war and the world was forever changed. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The AP honors the memory of the Pearl Harbor attack from the unique perspective only reporters of The Associated Press can provide," said Peter Costanzo, AP's digital publishing and archival manager. "This special edition is a powerful keepsake that ensures we never forget those who perished on that harrowing day, as well as those who survived and went on to defend freedom at home and abroad."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Is America still great or has the country lost its way? That’s the question that helped launch the long-running Associated Press series, "Divided America," whose 26 stories have been gathered in a new e-book.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />Through stories focused on the daily lives of ordinary Americans, "Divided America: An AP Guide to the Fracturing of a Nation" reveals the tensions and issues underlying the tumultuous 2016 U.S. presidential election, while going beyond the politics of the moment to ask: How will Americans face continued challenges well after a new president has been chosen?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />"The forces that have led us to this era of political volatility are not only ideological. They are cultural, social and more than anything, economic," said Brian Carovillano, AP's vice president of U.S. news. "AP journalists fanned out into communities across the country to better understand these forces and 'Divided America' is the result of that reporting. We are really proud of this work, which is enduring and important journalism."</span></div>
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Associated Press and Diversion Books have republished “Dwight D. Eisenhower,” a
biography by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Relman Morin, on
today’s 72</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"> anniversary of D-Day.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />Morin was
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The Girls in the Van,” Associated Press journalist Beth J. Harpaz’s celebrated account of Hillary Clinton’s successful run for a U.S. Senate seat from New York in 2000, is back with new insights as her second fight for the Democratic presidential nomination intensifies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First published in 2001, “The Girls in the Van” has been reissued as an e-book by AP and Diversion Books. It’s a remix of the original, with some passages dropped, a new opening chapter added and certain events given a context sharpened by time as Harpaz brings along readers in the press van that followed the former first lady from Buffalo to Brooklyn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then as now, questions about her authenticity, her marriage to former President Bill Clinton and an array of thorny issues have shadowed her chances.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The Girls in the Van” was titled with a nod to a classic of politics and media, “The Boys on the Bus,” Timothy Crouse’s chronicle of the race that pitted President Richard M. Nixon against Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., in 1972, when the candidates, their handlers and the reporters were all men.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some things in “The Girls in the Van” will seem “terribly dated to today’s readers,” Harpaz writes. “The book was written just as old media was giving way to new media, when the daily deadlines of newspapers and TV broadcasts were replaced by the 24-hour cycle of cable news and the Internet. In the year 2000, we marveled that anyone could read email on a cellphone. We thought it was overkill to get a mere 12 emails a day (!!) from the campaign. We needed satellite equipment to send a photo to our offices ... As such, the book is a snapshot in time.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“On the other hand,” Harpaz adds, “I believe my portrait of Hillary Clinton has withstood the test of time. She started out the Senate campaign as a buttoned-up, standoffish first lady who once insisted that the press be escorted out of a fundraiser while she ate. She didn’t take questions from reporters, she didn’t rub shoulders with the public; the Queen of England was more accessible than Hillary Clinton. That changed as the campaign wore on, and by the end, she thought nothing of standing in the middle of Grand Central, literally allowing herself to be engulfed by fans.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Beth offers a look back into Hillary Clinton’s history that feels notably familiar to those of us charged with covering her today,” AP national political writer Lisa Lerer writes in a new foreword. “Beth follows her on grueling campaign swings, traces her struggles to connect with voters and valiantly tries to analyze the back-and-forth of a never-ending stream of political outrage.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lerer adds: “Yes, the scandals have been updated: Emails and paid speeches, not parades and pardons, are the controversies of the day. A $300 million family foundation has replaced a White House intern as her most pernicious personal baggage … And though technology has profoundly remade media and politics, so much about the experience of covering her hasn’t changed. The clashes with a strategically unhelpful campaign staff. The notably female press corps endlessly scrutinized for bias. And the intense outpouring of emotion -- be it love or hate -- that Hillary seems to spark across the political spectrum.”</span></span></div>
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Former AP journalist Kathryn Johnson was a groundbreaking civil rights reporter, the only journalist Coretta Scott King invited into her home the night of Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968. In a new memoir, Johnson recounts her private moments with the Kings, and adds firsthand insights to the historical record of the tumultuous era.</div>
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Published this week by AP and RosettaBooks, the memoir is called “<a href="http://www.ap.org/explore/my-time-with-the-kings/" target="_blank">My Time with the Kings</a>,” subtitled “A Reporter’s Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement.”</div>
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“Whenever anything was happening, Kathryn seemed to be there,” Andrew Young, a close aide to King who went on to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and mayor of Atlanta, writes in the book’s introduction.</div>
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Johnson, one of the few female reporters on the civil rights beat, says she first covered King in 1960, “at news conferences, sit-ins and demonstrations, when he was a young, fairly unknown Baptist minister.”</div>
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In the years that followed, she became close with King; his wife, Coretta, and other key figures in the leader's circle. As she describes the scene at the King home in Atlanta after the slaying in Memphis, a policeman on the porch said no reporters were being allowed inside. But when the door opened so someone could leave, Mrs. King saw her outside and told the officer, “Let Kathryn in.” </div>
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They sat together in her bedroom watching TV reports of the killing and reruns of King’s orations, the widow “tight-lipped and misty-eyed,” until their silence was punctuated by a call from President Lyndon Johnson.</div>
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“I’ve no idea what Coretta was thinking that night, though I’ve often been asked,” Kathryn Johnson writes. “If I had to guess, it would be about her devastating loss, about how she and her four children were going to get along, or perhaps how she would carry on her husband’s remarkable legacy.”</div>
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Johnson is now 88 and still lives in Atlanta. “My Time with the Kings” features previously unpublished photographs from Johnson’s personal collection, original news wire transmissions from the AP Corporate Archives and the transcript of an oral history in which the author discussed her nearly 20 years of reporting for AP. </div>
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Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-8831809642487033852015-12-02T14:41:00.000-05:002015-12-02T14:41:03.595-05:00'Mulligan's Christmas Stew' served for the holidays<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.05px; line-height: 19.5px;">Originally posted on AP.org</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hugh Mulligan was the kind of guy you hope sits next to you on a long train ride – funny, smart, kind and with more stories than a lifetime should include. A collection of 44 holiday columns by the former special correspondent of The Associated Press has just been published under the title "Mulligan’s Christmas Stew."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Mulligan’s Christmas Stew" includes the stories behind "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Silent Night," and explores the mystery of who Santa Claus is, noting that thousands of words have been written about him, "but he has never submitted to an interview." One column considers what it would be like if Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Mr. Pickwick and other famous characters from holiday fiction all came to Christmas dinner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mulligan, a native New Yorker whose work appeared in newspapers across the country, recounted his adventures in nearly 150 countries. He covered popes, presidents and princesses. He retired in 2000 and died in 2008 at age 83. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In The Wall Street Journal this week, columnist Ralph Gardner Jr. called Mulligan <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/aps-witty-man-of-words-1449054002" title="WSJ "AP's Witty Man of Words"">"a witty and erudite storyteller."</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For those familiar with Mulligan’s work, the book will be a keepsake that gathers his holiday stories in one place. For younger readers, it will serve as an introduction to the popular storyteller. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was bad enough in the old days trying to assemble junior's scooter and sister's doll carriage on the night before Christmas, when all that was needed was the brains of an Edison or Marconi. But how are you going to contend with the 266-piece, four-foot-long atomic cannon that actually fires and the alpha 1 ballistic missile with its rocket motor, remote control adjustable launcher and its nontoxic, nonflammable oxidizer and fuel load?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a serene book that nudges its way into your heart. And speaking for myself, I don't believe I'll have a negative thought about Christmas again as these stories, an amazing gift all their own, would even put a smile on Ebenezer Scrooge's face!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Mulligan's Christmas Stew" includes Christmas trivia and quizzes, and concludes with an oral history about the journalist’s life and career that he did for AP Corporate Archives in 2005. It is the latest in AP’s burgeoning <a href="http://www.ap.org/books/" title="AP Books">book publishing program</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law is available for the first time as an interactive e-book, making the nation’s leading resource for newsroom style easier to use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">AP is releasing the 2015 AP Stylebook e-book with Basic Books, a division of The Perseus Books Group, which also publishes the perfect-bound print AP Stylebook sold in retail outlets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stylebook fans have asked for an e-book version for years, tweeting <a href="http://www.twitter.com/apstylebook" target="_blank">AP Stylebook On Twitter</a> to suggest adding an e-book to Stylebook’s digital product suite. While AP has offered a digital edition in PDF form on Google Play, Chegg eTextbooks and Follett’s BryteWave, this is the first time the AP Stylebook is available as an interactive e-book on platforms including Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook and Kobo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Contact</strong> <br /> Paul Colford <br /> Vice President and Director of Media Relations <br /> The Associated Press <br /> 212-621-1895 <br /><a href="mailto:pcolford@ap.org">pcolford@ap.org</a></span>Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-84898605815917375402015-05-18T11:00:00.000-04:002015-12-02T14:26:02.194-05:00‘The Boston Marathon Bombing’ to feature AP reporters’ stories behind the story<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.05px; line-height: 19.5px;"><i>Originally posted on AP.org</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press announces the publication this week of <a href="http://www.ap.org/books/boston-marathon-bombing/index.html">“The Boston Marathon Bombing: The Long Run From Terror to Revival.”</a> <br /><br />The new AP Edition, published in partnership with Mango Media, goes beyond the blasts that killed three people and injured more than 260, the manhunt that shut down Boston and the closely watched trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The book offers the stories behind the story, as related by the AP reporters and photographers who have provided comprehensive coverage. <br /><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When two pressure-cooker bombs packed with shrapnel exploded near the finish line on April 15, 2013, AP photographer Charlie Krupa broke out of a locked-down press room in order to cover the chaos on Boylston Street: <br /><br /><em>"EMTs. Firefighters. Everybody was triaging all these people in a cluster," he said. Medical attendants and volunteers worked frantically, using their own belts and shoelaces as tourniquets. "They were attending to people, getting them on stretchers and getting them off Boylston Street. It was like watching ants. Everyone knew what job they had to do." Something else registered through his lens: Although the panicked were peeling away in every direction, a quarter of the crowd was running toward the blast sites to help.</em> <br /><br /> AP Legal Affairs Writer Denise Lavoie, who covered Tsarnaev’s trial and sentencing, was struck by the intensity of the survivors’ testimony in court: <br /><br /><em>“I knew these people had suffered terribly, but I didn’t know how bad it was until I heard them describe in their own words what they went through,” Lavoie said. “I was stunned by their composure on the witness stand. I don’t know if I could have kept it together as well as they did.”</em> <br /><br />Reporter Bridget Murphy and Krupa spent many hours at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital watching amputees get ready for their first prosthetic limbs: <br /><br /><em>“I felt like they were giving us a gift by letting us be there while they were vulnerable," Murphy said. "A lot of them were very buoyant at the beginning. But as time went on and they were confronted with the reality of what their lives would be like from here on out, a lot of them got frustrated."</em> <br /><br />“The Boston Marathon Bombing” will be available as an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1633532615/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1633532615&linkCode=as2&tag=theassopres-20&linkId=VJMNRHKEFMWN2Z75" target="_blank">e-book and in a paperback edition</a>. <br /><br /> The book draws on AP’s extensive reporting and rich photo archive, capturing not only the horror and confusion, but also the selfless actions of marathoners, spectators and first responders who rushed to assist the victims. <br /><br /> The volume is a testament to the strength of the people of Boston and how they overcame tragedy with an enduring belief in the American spirit. <br /><br /><strong>About AP</strong> <br /> The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP. On the Web: <a href="http://www.ap.org/">www.ap.org</a>. <br /><br /><strong>Contact</strong> <br /> Paul Colford <br /> Director of Media Relations</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />He recounts historic points of the protracted conflict, including Marine landings, mountaintop battles, and the evacuation of civilians and U.S. personnel in the chaotic final hours.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />Arnett won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1966 for his Vietnam coverage. He later joined CNN and became well-known to TV audiences during the first Gulf War when he broadcast live from Baghdad during the U.S. bombing raids.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">In “Saigon Has Fallen,” Arnett writes about his risks and triumphs, recalling his fears and fights in reporting from Vietnam.</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">“Vietnam was America’s last uncensored war, and we journalists were pushed between a rock and a hard place, browbeaten by government officials to present their optimistic version of the war while our news industry executives back home demanded we report the unvarnished truth,” Arnett said. “We chose the truth, sharing with our audiences the bitter realities of an unwinnable war that, for the Americans and South Vietnamese who fought it, came to an unbearable, heart-rending end forty years ago.”</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />“Saigon Has Fallen” features 21 dramatic photographs from the AP archives as well as Arnett’s personal collection and is available exclusively for Kindle at </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Saigon-Has-Fallen-Peter-Arnett-ebook/dp/B00V7AW55K/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429539975&sr=1-1&keywords=arnett+saigon+fallen" style="border: 0px; color: #146994; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">. A paperback edition can be found in the coming days leading up to the April 30 anniversary </span>wherever books are sold<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />Arnett has recounted this period of his career before, but in “Saigon Has Fallen” he approaches those years with a fresh perspective for the 40th anniversary. The memoir also includes chapters about his fascinating return visits to Vietnam decades afterward.<br /><br />"</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Peter Arnett brings new perspective to a tumultuous moment of the Vietnam War,” said Sarah Nordgren, director of content development for AP. “His story adds sharp focus to a moment in history that resonates widely, even today.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />This is the first of several AP book projects that will be published in collaboration with RosettaBooks, including “World War II: Stories and Photographs by Correspondents of The Associated Press” in recognition of the 70th anniversary of VE-Day, in May.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">“We are thrilled to work with The Associated Press on a line of books that cover pivotal moments in history as told by AP’s award-winning journalists,” said Roger Cooper, associate publisher at large, RosettaBooks.</span></span><span style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><br /><br />About RosettaBooks</b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">RosettaBooks is the leading independent digital publisher. Its prominent author collections include 52 works of Winston Churchill, 35 titles by renowned science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, 20 works by Kurt Vonnegut, 12 titles from international bestselling business author Stephen R. Covey and 18 works by Robert Graves, celebrated 20th century English poet, critic, and author of I, Claudius and Claudius, the God. RosettaBooks also publishes eBook lines in collaboration with AARP, Harvard Health Publications and Mayo Clinic. Publisher of ten Kindle Singles, including Ray Bradbury’s The Playground, RosettaBooks has launched nine of them to bestseller status. RosettaBooks is an Inc. 500 company, on the exclusive list of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. For more information, please visit </span><a href="http://rosettabooks.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #146994; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">RosettaBooks.com</a><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span></span><strong style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><br />About AP</strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP. On the Web: </span><a href="http://www.ap.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #146994; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">www.ap.org</a><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span></span><strong style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><br />Contact</strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">Paul Colford</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />Director of Media Relations</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />The Associated Press</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />212-621-1895</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><a href="mailto:pcolford@ap.org" style="border: 0px; color: #146994; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">pcolford@ap.org</a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">Erin Madigan White</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />Senior Media Relations Manager</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />The Associated Press </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />212-621-7005</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><a href="mailto:emadigan@ap.org" style="border: 0px; color: #146994; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">emadigan@ap.org</a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span></span>Peter Costanzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168604151610144376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083659018980956508.post-57506056013791582842015-04-09T10:36:00.000-04:002015-04-22T09:38:09.916-04:00AP Launches 'AP Editions' Paperback and eBook Series<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Originally posted on AP.org</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Associated Press is tapping its global news coverage and vast archives to launch a series of paperback and e-books called AP Editions. <br /><br /> In collaboration with Miami-based Mango Media, AP is releasing the first 15 of what will be dozens of titles planned this year, drawing from recent reporting in text and photos, in addition to AP’s rich archive dating to 1846. <br /><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The initial titles, which can be located at <a href="http://www.ap.org/books/" target="_blank">www.ap.org/books</a>, are developed from key moments in history, major current events, profiles and oddities. AP’s first books recount the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ebola’s impact on Africa and beyond and the magic of the cosmos made real by the Hubble Telescope. <br /><br />“AP reporters and photographers have spent nearly 170 years in all quarters of the globe, telling the most important stories of their time,” said Sarah Nordgren, director of content development at AP. “By teaming up with Mango, AP has the opportunity to bring those stories once again to light, with the added perspective of history.” <br /><br /> “We are very pleased to be working with AP’s award-winning journalists to produce this groundbreaking book series,” said Christopher McKenney, president of Mango Media. “AP Editions titles are well-curated, high-quality, multiformat books designed to reach new generations of readers.” <br /><br />Paperback editions are available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and other outlets. E-book editions will also be available at those retailers, as well as iTunes. <br /><br /> Mango Media works with Ingram Publisher Services, an Ingram Content Group company, to distribute digital and print versions of AP Editions. The titles will be updated regularly. <br /><br /> Among the first titles: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ap.org/books/pope-francis/index.html" target="_blank">Pope Francis: Transforming the Catholic Church</a> <br /> Paperback: $17.95 / e-Book: $9.99 </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ap.org/books/hubble-space-telescope/index.html" target="_blank">The Hubble Space Telescope: A Universe of New Discovery</a> <br /> Paperback: $17.95 / e-Book: $9.99 </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ap.org/books/ebola/index.html" target="_blank">Ebola: From Outbreak to Crisis to Containment</a> <br /> Paperback: $14.95 / e-Book: $7.99</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>About Mango Media</strong> <br /> Mango Media publishes high-quality books and e-Books on the most important issues and trends affecting our world. See more at <a href="http://www.mangomedia.us/" target="_blank">www.mangomedia.us</a>. <br /><br /><strong>About AP</strong> <br /> The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP. On the Web: <a href="http://www.ap.org/">www.ap.org</a>. <br /><br /><strong>Contact</strong> <br /> Paul Colford <br /> Director of Media Relations <br /> The Associated Press <br /> 212-621-1895 <br /><a href="mailto:pcolford@ap.org">pcolford@ap.org</a> <br /><br /> Erin Madigan White <br /> Senior Media Relations Manager <br /> The Associated Press <br /> 212-621-7005 <br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">emadigan@ap.org</a> </span></div>
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2014 — NBC News and Citi on Tuesday announced the </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">release</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> of <i>Operation Money: A Financial
Guide for Military Service Members and Families</i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">, a free e-book for veterans and their
families</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> by Jean Chatzky, bestselling
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relocations, as well as how to make the most of military benefits. It features
actionable advice, including a step-by-step </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">guide to reducing debt</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, information on the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, and tips on
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Money: A Financial Guide for Military Service Members and Families</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> is now available for iPad, Kindle,
Nook, Kobo, and various Android devices. This free resource can be read online
at </span><a href="http://www.operationmoneybook.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://www.operationmoneybook.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> or downloaded from online retailers,
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struggle to find affordable childcare and housing or save for the future. Today,
65% of military families say they experience stress when it comes to their
finances, according to Blue Star Families. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The e-book – with chapters including “Budgeting Boot
Camp,” “Homeownership,” “Cars,” “Protecting Your Family,” and “Finance for
Caregivers” – offers financial management strategies specifically tailored for
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“When it comes to their
finances military families experience stresses that are different – and often
more severe – than other families,” said Jean Chatzky. “I’m delighted to have been able to work with
NBC News and Citi to provide them with a free resource to lead them in the
right direction.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Citi is committed to
advancing financial education and employment opportunities in the veterans
community. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Citi’s support
for <i>Operation Money</i> complements the
work of </span><a href="http://www.citisalutes.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Citi Salutes</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> a company-wide
initiative, led by Citi Community Development</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> with employees across the firm,</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> which</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> supports servicemembers and their families through career
development opportunities, banking services, and partnerships with leading
veterans organizations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“With Citi Salutes, we
address the financial capability challenges servicemembers may face, and work
with partners to develop solutions for the various stages, from deployment to
civilian employment,” said Bob Annibale, Global Director of Citi Community
Development. “We are pleased to support Operation Money as a widely available
and free e-book, and we will continue to stand behind our military veterans and
their families.”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"The financial aspect of transitioning out
of the military and into a new job or career is one of the most difficult and
complicated aspects facing our service men and women. It is Citi's hope that
this book will help military families make the transition with the least amount
of disruption,” said Suni Harford, Managing Director and Head of North America
Markets at Citi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is NBC News and
Citi’s second e-book project, following the publication of <i>Heroes Get Hired: How to Use Your Military Experience to Master the
Interview</i>, which is available for download at </span><a href="http://www.heroesgethired.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://www.heroesgethired.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">. The e-book was produced with the
support of Blue Star Families, Military Spouse Corporate career network,
Corporate America Supports You, and Veterans Plus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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NBC News <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">NBC News is a global leader
in news across all broadcast and digital platforms. Its leading and
award-winning television news broadcasts include NBC Nightly News with Brian
Williams, TODAY, Meet the Press and Dateline, as well as primetime specials and
breaking news reports. The rapidly-growing NBC News Digital Group, along with
the well-established NBC News Radio with 750 stations nationwide, provide
continuous content to consumers wherever they are, whenever they want it. NBC
News also operates Peacock Productions, an award-winning in-house production
company, and the NBC NewsChannel affiliate news service. NBC News is part of
the NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which is owned by
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Citi,
the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and
does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides
consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of
financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit,
corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services,
and wealth management. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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