Publishing News

Playboy spent 56 years making sure that the world would know it by the sign of its bunny ears.

The publisher of the East Valley Tribune in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa said Friday that a buyer has made an offer that would keep the paper and its Web site in business.

Nov. 20 -- Former Playboy Enterprises Inc. Chief Executive Officer Christie Hefner talks with Bloomberg's Deirdre Bolton and Erik Schatzker about the outlook for the magazine publishing industry and Playboy Enterprises.

A top executive of Freedom Communications said Thursday that the company hopes someone will step forward to buy the Tribune newspapers and keep the East Valley publications alive, but so far, no viable offer has come forward.

There should be no doubt that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is an attention-getter. Her new book is already a best-seller, and her hourlong appearance on " The Oprah Winfrey Show " earlier this week helped the show earn an 8.7 household rating, the New York Times reported .

November 20, 2009 Visionmp.com news service With first anniversary of Mumbai terror attacks coming round the corner, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that he everyday gets intelligence inputs which suggest that Pakistan-based terrorists are contriving more 26/11-like strikes in India.

Yellow Pages Group announced Wednesday a plan to raise $300 million in an offering of notes that will be used to repay other debt and for general corporate purposes.

Washington, Nov 19 : The arrests of David Coleman Headley and his associate Tawwahur Hussain Rana - the two Chicago men accused of planning a new attack in India - have widened into a global terrorism inquiry that has led to arrests in Pakistan and implicated a former Pakistani military officer as a co-conspirator, according to the New York Times ...

Spokeswoman Maria Comella is disputing a New York Times report that Giuliani won't run for governor after months of considering it.

THE founder of telecommunications company One.Tel, Jodee Rich, will learn today whether the corporate watchdog has won its civil case against him relating to the collapse of the junior telco in 2001.

A NOVEL about life in New York City in the 1970s and a biography of US tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the winners at the United States 60th annual National Book Awards on Wednesday.

Karl Rove's memoir has a title, "Courage and Consequence," and a release date - March 9, 2010.

ITV has appointed former Asda chief executive Archie Norman to replace Michael Grade as chairman in January.

The head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, has apologised for the role the financial services major played in pulling down Wall Street titans that rattled the entire world.

Four Camp Pendleton Marines convicted of aiding the kidnapping and killing of an Iraqi man in 2006 have been ordered removed from the military.

Gary Ginsberg, a close adviser to Rupert Murdoch for 11 years who often served as a liaison between the conservative Mr.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Running out of ways to say Happy Birthday to your sweetie? Let Taylor Swift say it for you.

Investigators in New York City raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers today as part of a union corruption probe, a law enforcement official said.

Singer/songwriter Taylor Swift is adding a new job title to her resume: greeting card extraordinaire .

Harlequin Enterprises has launched a self-publishing division for romance novels.