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• Content Development Editor to develop content for Wall Street Journal

  Elyse Tanouye will develop content for the Wall Street Journal as Content Development Editor, a new position the paper created for content development. Tanouye previously managed standards and ethics for… Read more »

• Yesterday was a bad, bad day for book editors UPDATE: Today also sucks

  While everyone knows that the life of a newspaper book editor is usually all free lunches, soft couches made of ARCs, and foot rubs from first time novellists, some days… Read more »

• Ten Nights On Long Island: The Great Gatsby’s early reviews

  In its first year, The Great Gatsby sold a disappointing 21,000 copies, less than half of the first year sales for This Side of Paradise or The Beautiful and Dammed.… Read more »

• More turnover at Granta

  Last week, it was announced that John Freeman is leaving his role as editor of Granta after five years at the journal to teach at Columbia University. Yesterday it came out that… Read more »

• Spare Rib returns: radical feminist magazine relaunching this month

  The British radical feminist magazine Spare Rib is set to relaunch later this month after being out of print for 20 years. At the helm will be journalist Charlotte Raven; also involved… Read more »

• The deleted tweets of U.S. politicians

  Think you deleted that tweet, Junior Senator? Think again. For there is now a website, Politwoops, which collects deleted tweets by U.S. politicians and preserves them for all time, so… Read more »

• Reading as performance

  The Quiet Volume, an installation art exhibit about the reading experience, is up this week at NYU’s Bobst Library and the Schomburg Center. The brainchild of Ant Hampton and Tim… Read more »

• How much does a Pulitzer affect book sales?

  Husna Haq of The Christian Science Monitor tracked sales for the 2013 winners just two weeks after the Pulitzer Prize was announced. The result? Money has not fallen from the… Read more »

• When is a blog not journalism?

  The right to anonymously publish political commentary without government oversight is one of American journalism’s most sacred tenets, but now that blogs abound, the lines are being blurred. Dennis Bailey’s Cutler… Read more »

• UK updates libel laws, but not soon enough for Amanda Knox

  After decades of being known world-wide as the friendliest jurisdiction to sue someone for libel in, England is set to change its laws. Earlier this year, the path to libel… Read more »