publishing summary
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Encyclopædia Britannica Summary
Encyclopædia Britannica, the oldest English-language general encyclopaedia. The Encyclopædia Britannica was first published in 1768, when it began to appear in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since its founding, the Encyclopædia Britannica has relied upon both outside experts and its own editors with various
news agency Summary
News agency, organization that gathers, writes, and distributes news from around a nation or the world to newspapers, periodicals, radio and television broadcasters, government agencies, and other users. It does not generally publish news itself but supplies news to its subscribers, who, by sharing
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Summary
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an American poet, one of the founders of the Beat movement in San Francisco in the mid-1950s. His City Lights bookshop was an early gathering place of the Beats, and the publishing arm of City Lights was the first to print the Beats’ books of poetry. Ferlinghetti’s father
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe Summary
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe was one of the most successful newspaper publishers in the history of the British press and a founder of popular modern journalism. After an impoverished childhood and a few attempts at making a quick fortune, young Harmsworth embarked on