A new literary competition with a unique difference has been announced in Lagos. This is the Dusty Manuscript competition, sponsored by Guaranty Trust Bank Plc. It will be aimed at aspiring writers and offer them the opportunity to win publishing contracts for their completed manuscripts, but to be published. Organized …
Read More »White House speechwriter David Sorensen resigns over domestic violence allegations
Another Trump administration official resigns amid domestic violence charges, just days after White House Personnel Secretary Rob Porter resigned amid similar allegations. Elise Viebeck of the Washington Post reports that David Sorensen, speechwriter, is resigning. His ex-wife, Jessica Corbett, accused Sorensen of physical and psychological abuse during their two-and-a-half-year marriage. …
Read More »White House speechwriter resigns amid abuse accusations
WASHINGTON – David Sorensen, a White House speechwriter, resigned Friday after detailed reporting of accusations from a former wife who said he abused her during their marriage. His resignation came two days after Rob Porter, the secretary of personnel at the White House, submitted his own resignation after his two …
Read More »Penn Alumna and award-winning journalist Andrea Mitchell to speak at the 262nd Penn launch
NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Andrea Mitchell will deliver the speech at the 2018 University of Pennsylvania inauguration on Monday, May 14. The announcement was made today by the vice-president and secretary of the university, Leslie Laird Kruhly. âWe are honored to bestow our highest degree on award-winning journalist Andrea Mitchell, …
Read More »Edmonton computer scientist uses artificial intelligence to decipher mysterious manuscript
Breadcrumb Links New Canada Even the cryptographers who deciphered the Nazi Enigma codes couldn’t read the Voynich, but Greg Kondrack of the University of Alberta may have Author of the article: The Canadian Press Release date : Jan. 24, 2018 ⢠Jan. 24, 2018 ⢠1 minute read ⢠Join …
Read More »1,600-year-old manuscript reveals secret teachings of Jesus to his brother James [PHOTOS]
Nag Hammadi Scrolls See the author’s page [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The mysteries, myths and legends surrounding the Bible have always been a subject of debate. Who wrote the Bible? How old is he? What is its authenticity? and the list can go on. The text still conceals secrets …
Read More »Ex-Bush speechwriter: Trump’s tweets are a ‘direct attack’ on journalists’ safety
A speechwriter for former President George W. Bush said President Trump’s attacks on CNN’s international bureau put journalists at risk. David Frum, former Bush speechwriter and editor of The Atlantic, tweeted on Saturday that US-affiliated journalists operating internationally depend on the US government to protect them and their reporting, and …
Read More »Former Bush speechwriter: Trump’s tweets are a “direct attack” on journalists’ safety
A speechwriter for former President George W. Bush said President Trump’s attacks on CNN’s international bureau put journalists at risk. David Frum, former Bush speechwriter and editor of The Atlantic, tweeted on Saturday that US-affiliated journalists operating internationally depended on the US government to protect them and their reporting, and …
Read More »I spent my twenties as an Obama speechwriter. Here’s what he taught me about growing up.
In 2011, when I was 24, I was hired as a Speechwriter in the White House. My first thought (after âshit!â) Was that someone must have made a mistake. It’s not that I thought I had no talent. It’s just that I knew there were over 300 million people in …
Read More »Ex-Obama speechwriter says Trump’s communications strategy ‘never seems real’
Former Barack Obama speechwriters met last week for lunch in DC and wondered: Has anyone served in the White House? President Donald Trump certainly makes formal remarks and solemn speeches, but many of his public comments seem off the cuff. “What we’ve decided is that there are speechwriters, based on …
Read More »Controversial article by Australian journalist reported by newspaper – Retraction Watch
The Journal of Biological Chemistry added an expression of concern to a 2003 article from the doctoral thesis of a once prominent – and controversial – science journalist in Australia. The first author of the article is Maryanne Demasi, a journalist whose reports have unwittingly made headlines in recent years. …
Read More »Book of Mormon Sets New Record for Most Expensive Manuscript Ever Sold | Manuscripts and letters
The printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon was sold to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) for $ 35 million (£ 26 million), setting what would be a new record for the most expensive manuscript ever sold. The document is a handwritten copy of the original …
Read More »Former speechwriter looks back on years of ‘hope and change’ with Obama: NPR
President Barack Obama speaks at the 2014 White House Correspondents‘ Association Dinner in Washington. Olivier Douliery/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Olivier Douliery/Getty Images President Barack Obama speaks at the 2014 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington. Olivier Douliery/Getty Images David Litt was 24 and just a few years …
Read More »Why former Obama speechwriter calls him the most Jewish president of all time
JTA – He was only 24 years old, but speechwriter David Litt had already become President Obama’s go-to man for anything considered âKishke-relatedâ. In Litt’s lingo, that meant he wrote the president’s speeches that aimed to connect with American Jews at the gut level – things like holiday and birthday …
Read More »This AI Thinks Steve Jobs and Tim Cook Have the Same Speechwriter
Apple has done its best to channel Steve Jobs’ showmanship in its recent presentations, as seen with the company’s recent iPhone X launch. But maybe it goes deeper than that: an AI-based speech analyzer thinks Steve Jobs and Tim Cook actually have the same speechwriter. There are many reasons to …
Read More »Obama’s Speechwriter on Trump’s White House Chaos
As Barack Obama’s speechwriter, Cody Keenan helped write Trump’s now infamous public skewer in 2011, a humiliation some see as motivating Mr Trump to enter politics. “Do I feel responsible? No. And besides, he deserved it. He’s yet another guy who started his political career with racist innuendo that the …
Read More »einstein: From picture to manuscript, the world pays dearly for Einstein’s memories
Albert Einstein is probably one of the most recognized scientists still today. Historians say that Einstein’s popularity can be attributed to a combination of his stellar work, his outspoken views on religion, and his eccentric personality. That’s why collectors around the world continue to pay a high price for Einstein …
Read More »The mystery of the Voynich manuscript solved? It’s a guide to female gynecology, according to experts
The recording was a success!Please follow the link in the email sent to Send again https://sputniknews.com/20700908/voynich-manuscript-solved-healing-1057220426.html The mystery of the Voynich manuscript solved? It’s a guide to female gynecology, says expert The mystery of the Voynich manuscript solved? It’s a guide to female gynecology, says expert Since 1912, researchers have …
Read More »What It Really Looked Like To Be A Speechwriter For Barack Obama | The independent
Washington is filled with political agents who inflate their importance and take credit for themselves, often where it isn’t. David Litt, who landed a dream job as a speechwriter for the Obama administration at just 24, is not that kind of agent. His new book, Thank you Obama: my hope, …
Read More »David Litt, an Obama speechwriter who wants no credit
Washington is filled with political operatives who inflate their importance and take credit for themselves, often where it may not be. David Litt, who landed a dream job as a speechwriter for the Obama administration at just 24, is not that kind of agent. His new book, “Thanks Obama: My …
Read More »Former Obama Speechwriter Mocks Trump Over Obama’s Tanned Suit “Scandal” | The independent
Donald Trump’s press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City was considered the most breathtaking to date. The US president managed to plug his cellar while asserting that the responsibility for the violence in Charlottesville should be shared by both parties. Mr. Trump’s extraordinary conference, in …
Read More »Obama speechwriter mocks Trump: Catastrophic press conference once meant a tan suit
A former President Obama speechwriter mocked President Trump’s press conference on Tuesday in which he repeated his claim that “both sides” are responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Va., On Saturday. Cody Keenan, who worked for Obama from 2007 to 2017, joked on Twitter that a bad presidential press conference …
Read More »Theresa May’s chief strategy officer and speechwriter resigns – POLITICO
LONDON – Theresa May has lost another member of her entourage following the departure of her chief strategy officer and speechwriter, Chris Wilkins. Wilkins follows the Prime Minister’s joint chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, and political leaders John Godfrey and Will Tanner, who also resigned after the …
Read More »JK Rowling reveals she has a secret manuscript written on a dress | London Evening Standard
J K Rowling said she has a secret manuscript hanging in her wardrobe that may never be released. The Harry Potter author has revealed that she has written an entire book about a dress for her 50th birthday costume party and has not made up her mind to publish it. …
Read More »Former Carter Speechwriter Reflects on How Presidents Speak Abroad: NPR
President Trump’s speech in Poland this week brought back memories for James Fallows. The current national correspondent of Atlantic was a 20-something speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter. And the tone of Carter’s speech in Poland in 1977 was very different from Trump’s. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: President Trump’s speech in Warsaw …
Read More »Obama’s ex-speechwriter removes refusal to vote from popular podcast – The Hollywood Reporter
It was in front of a crowded audience at the Ace Hotel in May that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti demanded an embarrassing confession from former Obama speechwriter turned political podcaster Jon Lovett: The Man of 34-year-old did not vote in the LA municipal election held on May 16. To …
Read More »Reagan speechwriter thinks Trump is making big speeches – foreign policy
Thirty years ago today, at the Brandenburg Gate in divided Berlin, President Ronald Reagan delivered one of the most iconic lines in a lifetime of speech. “Sir. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! Peter Robinson, then Reagan’s 30-year-old special assistant, wrote this speech. In it, Reagan expressed his solidarity with the …
Read More »Speechwriter Who Helped Reagan “Tear Down That Wall” – POLITICO
STANFORD, Calif .– June 12 marked the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s most subversive presidential speech, a speech delivered in a divided German capital that has become a point of passionate communion between the United States and Europe. The anniversary has a tangy flavor, coming at a time when the …
Read More »Former Hillary Clinton speechwriter to publish insider account
Lissa Muscatine, co-owner of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, is finally ready to share her story of working with Hillary Clinton. Politics & Prose owner and former White House speechwriter Lissa Muscatine interviews Hillary Clinton in Washington in 2014 (Melina Mara / The Washington Post) Her upcoming book, titled …
Read More »Truman Capote knew the “cold-blooded” killer wrote a manuscript
Truman Capote. Photo: Time & Life Pictures / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images Truman Capote was not the only one who thought that the murder of the Clutter family by Richard Hickock and Perry Smith in 1959 was the basis of an interesting book. As has been brought …
Read More »Michelle Obama’s speechwriter on words and leadership
Back at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver, Michelle Obama introduced herself to the American people. She told the crowd the moving story of her upbringing and spoke about some of her and her husband’s values. “That your word is your bond, that you do what you say you are …
Read More »Former presidential speechwriter says friction is part of American democracy
Colleen Carroll Campbell was one of the keynote speakers at the Redeemed Women’s Conference held in Fargo on Saturday. In addition to being an accomplished author and journalist, Campbell has written speeches for President George W. Bush. Campbell said that in today’s political climate that has become extremely polarized, it’s …
Read More »Harry Middleton, former speechwriter who ran the LBJ library, dies at 95
Harry J. Middleton, who spent the last two years of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency as a speechwriter but had a more lasting impact on Johnson’s legacy as director of his presidential library for more than three decades, died Jan. 20 in Austin, Texas. He was 95 years old. The death, …
Read More »Former Obama Jewish speechwriter Jon Lovett creates anti-Trump company – the forward
Three former staff of President Barack Obama have started a business to counter Donald Trump with a podcast and updates that bypass mainstream media to reach their audiences directly. Their site is called “Crooked Media,” a nod to Trump’s slander of the press. One of the founders is former Obama …
Read More »Ex-Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau wants to put Hillary’s anxious ‘bedwetting’ at ease – The Hollywood Reporter
Hillary can’t lose this thing, can she? Not a chance, insists Jon favreau. Not this Jon favreau. This one is the prodigy president obama speech writer which since May has reinvented itself with the hottest political podcast of the season, keep to‘ He 1600which he records twice a week with …
Read More »The art of political speechwriting – from a former White House speechwriter – News @ Northeastern
West wing describes speech writing as a distinctive skill that requires Herculean effort at breakneck speed. But, as the TV show suggests, the position can also be particularly rewarding, giving the writer a front row seat in history. Alan Stone, who worked on President Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign in …
Read More »Visit the ‘Jane Eyre’ manuscript in New York | Smart News
How did Charlotte Brontë go from secretly doodling to one of England’s most famous names (and literature)? Look for the answer in a passage from Jane eyre, in which her famous simple heroine tells her future husband that she is a “free human with an independent will”. This bold statement …
Read More »Former Obama speechwriter to Ari Fleischer: Stop lying
Former President Barack Obama’s speechwriter Jon Favreau took to Twitter to voice his concerns. | AP Photo By BRENT GRIFFITHS 9/16/2016 12:25 PM EDT Update 9/16/2016 3:17 PM EDT 2016-09-16T03: 17-0400 Former President Barack Obama’s speechwriter Jon Favreau on Friday accused Ari Fleischer of knowingly lying about Hillary Clinton’s role …
Read More »Confessions of a presidential speechwriter – POLITICO
Just over five years ago, I gave up my job as a British civil servant and a place in the British immigration line to accept a position as a speechwriter for José Manuel Barroso, then President of the European Commission . It was an honor to join the President’s team …
Read More »Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau on Trump, Hillary and becoming a podcast star
There was a lot of speculation, when this controversy persisted, that this would be its downfall. Do you think this is the case?It certainly affected his ranking in the race, probably more than any other comment he made. It was not an attack on Hillary Clinton. It was an attack …
Read More »publisher secures rights to Voynich Manuscript, a book no one can read | Spain
It is one of the most mysterious books in the world, a centuries-old manuscript written in an unknown or coded language that no one has deciphered. Scholars have spent their lives wondering about the Voynich Manuscript, whose intriguing mix of elegant handwriting and drawings of strange plants and naked women …
Read More »The journalist and the voyeur
It should hardly be necessary to point out that Talese’s credibility should be less important than the rights and lives of Foos motel guests. The question is not only whether he reported accurately, but the nature of the event he was reporting. Journalistic ethics are less important than ethics. You …
Read More »John McLaughlin, television expert and Nixon speechwriter, deceased at 89
John McLaughlin, the conservative talk show host and pop culture lightning rod who ran the longtime Roundtable TV show The McLaughlin Group, is dead. He was 89 years old. The McLaughlin Group The Facebook page reported the news. “Earlier this morning, a beloved friend and mentor Dr. John McLaughlin passed …
Read More »Everyone’s pissed off at this straight reporter who used Grindr to hook gay athletes out in Rio / Queerty
A straight journalist is criticized for using Grindr to essentially eliminate gay athletes in Rio. Nico Hines covered the Olympics for the Daily beast. As part of his reporting, he thought it would be hilarious to create a fake profile on the dating app and then see how many gay …
Read More »Journalist Ross Barkan on what’s wrong (and right) with the media
Ross Barkan. Photo: Fernando Pereira Gomes So you worked for the Observer for a few years, didn’t you?Three. Yeah, three years. When Trump announced he was running, the newspaper’s policy was not to cover him up unless there was a compelling reason, right?Correct, yes. When he announced it this summer, …
Read More »David Litt, former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, explains how speeches are written at the Democratic National Convention
On September 4, 2012, Stacey Lihn walked across the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her husband, Caleb, followed her along with their two young daughters, including 2-year-old Zoe. “Like so many moms with sick children, I shed tears and could breathe easier knowing that we …
Read More »Who is Meredith McIver? The Trump speechwriter who took the blame has a long history with the candidate
The Trump Organization staffer who took responsibility for the failed speech that was supposed to be one of the most important at the RNC is a former ballerina and longtime trusted colleague of the GOP nominee. Meredith McIver is listed as a co-author with Donald Trump on several of the …
Read More »The speechwriter behind Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican Convention
Donald Trump is due to deliver his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination Thursday night in Cleveland. Behind his words hides political advisor Stephen Miller, 30, responsible for writing the speech of his life. If it wasn’t difficult enough to produce a successful speech for the most unpredictable Republican candidate …
Read More »How a freelance journalist revealed Melania Trump’s plagiarism story in 3 tweets
Jarrett Hill sat in a California Starbucks on Monday night, watching Melania Trump’s speech live at the Republican National Convention. In the midst of Trump’s remarks, Hill realized that his words were very familiar. “I was like, ‘I really know where I heard that before,'” he told me in a …
Read More »Melania Trump’s speechwriter comes forward to apologize
CLEVELAND— — An inside writer and longtime friend of the Trump family has issued an apology for his involvement in preparing Melania Trump’s speech to the Republican National Convention on Monday night, which bore similarities to a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama. Staffer Meredith McIver said she submitted her resignation …
Read More »Trump speechwriter apologizes for copying part of Michelle Obama’s remarks – The Hollywood Reporter
CLEVELAND, Ohio—A speech writer on Donald Trump’s staff accepted responsibility Wednesday morning for using portions of a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama in a speech given by Melanie Trump Monday at the Republican National Convention. Meredith Mclveran in-house writer for the Trump Organization, said in a statement shared by the …
Read More »Donald Trump attacks his wife’s speechwriter
CLEVELAND – Donald J. Trump on Wednesday congratulated the long-time company employee who took responsibility for two passages of Melania Trump’s convention speech that were withdrawn from Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention of 2008, but he conceded that the public admission should have taken place a day …
Read More »Melania Trump’s speechwriter made a common mistake. Here’s how to avoid it. – Poynter
One of the most common excuses for plagiarism is “I have mixed up my notes.” This was indeed the rationale that surfaced today in the apology from longtime Trump ghost writer Meredith McIver. When his name appeared, I recognized him right away. For months now I’ve had a book by …
Read More »What is Michelle Obama thinking? Meet the speechwriter who puts it into words.
Speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz with Michelle Obama on a flight from Joint Base Andrews, Md. To Santa Fe, NM, where the First Lady gave an opening speech last month. (Chuck Kennedy / The White House) When Sarah Hurwitz sits down in front of her laptop, she puts on her noise-canceling headphones …
Read More »Shafik Rehman: Growing concerns for elderly journalist hospitalized after being held in solitary confinement | The independent
An elderly Anglo-Bangladeshi journalist has been hospitalized after being held in solitary confinement and denied medical treatment in prison, his family said. Shafik Rehman, 81, is a prominent journalist with dual British and Bangladeshi nationality. He has supported pro-opposition groups in the country and was arrested on April 16 on …
Read More »Student speechwriter finds her own voice
Shannon Beckham Shannon Beckham spent the past summer as an intern on the White House speechwriting team, digging up facts, anecdotes and historical references to sprinkle into speeches President Obama gave in the whole world. Eight steps to the White House A look at how Duke senior Shannon Beckham got …
Read More »Can Ben Rhodes, a 38-year-old White House speechwriter, be the second most powerful voice in American foreign policy? -Quartz
One of the hottest topics in Washington right now is the hot water the New York Times Magazine finds itself in. The cauldron involves a May 5 profile of an Obama administration official. He got fundamental facts wrong and cast ethical slanders against prominent journalists and political consultants, who were …
Read More »Prominent Bangladeshi Journalist Arrested for Sedition | Media
A prominent veteran Bangladeshi journalist, Shafik Rehman, has been remanded in custody by a court in the capital, Dhaka, on charges of sedition. Police say Rehman, who is 82, was arrested on Saturday over evidence linking him to a plot to assassinate the son of the country’s prime minister, Sheikh …
Read More »Funny Or Die Hires Former President Obama Speechwriter To Lead DC Staff
Funny Or Die has hired former Obama administration senior presidential speechwriter David Litt to spearhead its Washington, DC shenanigans. Litt, who also served as special assistant to President Barack Obama, is now the editor of the Political City Office. “We are thrilled to have David join the Funny Or Die …
Read More »Former President Obama Speechwriter Joins Funny or Die
LOS ANGELES — David Litt, known as President Obama’s chief joke writer, is joining humor website and studio Funny or Die as he seeks to poke fun even more at American politics. Mr. Litt, who quit his previous job last month, will become head writer and producer for Operation Funny …
Read More »Beatrix Potter manuscript on a cat with a double life is found
“Once upon a time there was a serious, well-behaved young black cat.” Beatrix Potter wrote these words in a notebook over 100 years ago when she began work on “The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots,” about a well-behaved cat who leads a double life. Although Potter wrote at least three drafts of …
Read More »Marshal Pétain’s Jewish Speechwriter – The Forward
French Jewish author Henri Raczymow, born in 1948, wrote books combining a fascination with family, literature and history. From “Heinz”, about his uncle who was murdered at the Majdanek concentration camp, to “Swan’s Way”, about Marcel Proust’s character, Charles Swann, Raczymow offers a personal insight into the expressions of Judaism. …
Read More »‘The Speechwriter’ tells the story of a disgraced governor’s former scribe
There are 8,000,000 mischiefs perpetrated in the halls of government each year, none naked, all gassy. In the clear and resounding words of Barton Swaim The Speech Writer: “The trick was to use as many words as possible with as many interpretations as possible,” whether it was a piece of …
Read More »Speechwriter will make you love Mark Sanford and hate the author
When I was hired to write speeches for a senator a few years ago, I knew a former White House speechwriter Reagan. His only advice: “You’ll think you were hired for your talent with words. That’s not what you’re here for, it’s a management job. You have to keep all …
Read More »Review: In ‘The Speechwriter,’ Barton Swaim shares stories of working for Mark Sanford
As an unwitting entrant in America’s Crazyest Governor contest of 2009, Mark Sanford of South Carolina gave many gifts to the American people, some of them linguistic. There was the phrase “hiking the Appalachian Trail”, which actually meant “meeting my lover in Buenos Aires”. There was the surreal effluence of …
Read More »Death of William B. Ewald Jr., speechwriter and Eisenhower biographer
William B. Ewald Jr., who used his experience as an aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower to write several books that highlighted his leadership and determination, died March 16 at his home in Greenwich, Wash. Connecticut. He was 89 years old. The cause was respiratory failure, his son William B. …
Read More »William Ewald, Eisenhower speechwriter, biographer, dies
Greenwich resident and author William B. Ewald Jr., speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower during his presidency, died at his home Monday at age 89. According to his son William B. Ewald III, he died peacefully of respiratory failure. According to information from the Eisenhower Library in Kansas, William Bragg Ewald …
Read More »Ex-Reagan speechwriter Dana Rohrabacher a big proponent of legal pot
The politicians aren’t much more conservative than Orange County Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. He was Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter, an inspiration behind California’s anti-immigration Proposition 187, a Cold War hardliner, and a self-deprecating man as a “Neanderthal Republican.” . But now, Rohrabacher has emerged as a national leader in a not-so-conservative area: …
Read More »Obama’s State of the Union Speechwriter Draws on Various Inspirations
WASHINGTON — One night last week, Cody Keenan, the White House speechwriter whom President Obama dubbed “Hemingway,” knew he needed help. Mr. Keenan had spent 15 days locked in a hotel room in Honolulu while the president vacationed nearby, and seven more in a windowless office in the basement of …
Read More »1,400-year-old manuscript shows Jesus’ wife and children, authors say
An old text describes Jesus Christ as having a wife and two children, according to a new book due out this week, but academics quickly shut down that claim. Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson explain in “The Lost Gospel” that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene – “the original Virgin …
Read More »Joseph Persico, Rockefeller speechwriter and best-selling author, dies at 84
Joseph E. Persico, popular biographer and historian and former editor of Nelson A. Rockefeller, died Saturday in Albany. He was 84 years old. His wife, Sylvia, confirmed his death. Mr. Persico began writing speeches for Mr. Rockefeller in 1966, when Mr. Rockefeller was Governor of New York, and continued in …
Read More »Frank M. Robinson dies at age 87; Harvey Milk author and speechwriter
Frank M. Robinson, a thriller and science fiction writer who also helped murdered San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk write some of his most powerful speeches, has died. He was 87 years old. Robinson’s death on June 30 while in hospice care at his San Francisco home was confirmed by Daniel …
Read More »Hillary Clinton and Lissa Muscatine: From First Lady and Speechwriter to Author and Bookseller
Their relationship has always been made up of words: written, spoken, unspoken. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Lissa Muscatine have spent the past 20 years in the meticulous and infuriating quest to find exactly the right words at exactly the right time. As the first lady’s speechwriter, Muscatine voiced Clinton’s hopes …
Read More »Brock Brower, magazine reporter, novelist and television writer, dies at 82
Brock Brower, a magazine journalist best known for his profiles as White House occupiers and wannabes of the 1960s and 1970s, and who had a second, third and fourth career as a novelist, television writer and speechwriter for the United States Attorney General, died April 16 in Santa Barbara, California, …
Read More »Mexico Editor: García Márquez left the manuscript
Novelist Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez left an unpublished manuscript he chose not to print during his lifetime, a publisher said this week as the writer’s compatriots paid him musical tribute in his native Colombia. Cristobal Pera, editorial director of Penguin Random House Mexico, said on Tuesday that GarcÃa Márquez’s family had …
Read More »Garcia Marquez left an unpublished manuscript
MEXICO CITY — Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez left behind an unpublished manuscript he chose not to print during his lifetime, an editor told The Associated Press on Tuesday as the writer’s compatriots paid their respects music in his native Colombia. Cristobal Pera, editorial director of Penguin Random House Mexico, said …
Read More »Gabriel Garcia Marquez left an unpublished manuscript
Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez left behind an unpublished manuscript that he chose not to print during his lifetime, a publisher told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Fans say goodbye to Garcia Marquez 13 pictures Cristobal Pera, editorial director of Penguin Random House Mexico, said Garcia Marquez’s family has yet …
Read More »Quiñones named President Eisgruber’s speechwriter
Eric Quiñones, associate vice president for communications at Franklin & Marshall College and former editor of the Office of Communications at Princeton University, has been named speechwriter to Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber. Quiñones will assume his new role on August 21. “I’m thrilled that Eric Quiñones is returning to …
Read More »Behind every president there is a speechwriter
PBS NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan spoke with presidential speechwriters Don Baer and Michael Gerson. Cabinet secretaries prowling the halls looking for clues, White House staffers hatching secret policy – it sounds straight out of the TV drama “The West Wing.” But it’s not fiction and took place on the eve …
Read More »Jon Favreau, President Obama’s speechwriter, is leaving
WASHINGTON — Jon Favreau’s career took off when, at age 23, he interrupted U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama during a speech rehearsal to offer some suggestions for improvement. The brazen move led to a seven-year tour as Obama’s chief speechwriter, a stint that ends March 1 as Favreau plans to …
Read More »Reproduction of Charles Dickens’ manuscript brought the writer’s art back to life
Greatest of Expectations: How a Reproduction of Charles Dickens’ Manuscript Brought the Writer’s Artback to life All 195,500 words by the author can be viewed in his own handwriting By Daily Mail Reporter Update: 2:09 p.m. EDT, December 9, 2011 This wandering spider’s handwriting on an unlined page marred by …
Read More »Obama Speechwriter-Turned Show Scribe Reveals ‘1600 Penn’ Details (Q&A) – The Hollywood Reporter
Earlier this fall, Jon Lovett ditched his three-year gig as President Obama’s speechwriter to try to make it big on TV. Lovett, 29, raised in New York, wasted no time. He marries the two worlds with the red-hot 1600 Pennsa White House comedy that Lovett sold to NBC with The …
Read More »Former Obama speechwriter now NBC sitcom writer
Former Obama Speechwriter Creates Dysfunctional White House Family Sitcom Called ‘1600 Penn’ By Daily Mail Reporter Update: 3:52 p.m. EDT, October 25, 2011 A former speechwriter for President Obama quit his job in September to sell and narrate a comedy sitcom about a dysfunctional White House family — with no …
Read More »Journalist, Nixon Speechwriter William Safire: NPR
William Safire on NBC Meet the press in 2007. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images William Safire on NBC Meet the press in 2007. Alex Wong/Getty Images William Safire, the savvy speech stylist who turned phrases for President Nixon and later conjured Pulitzer Prize-winning contrarian columns …
Read More »Profile: Obama’s Speechwriter | FinancialTimes
Tuesday’s inaugural address marks another stunning moment for Jon Favreau, the 27-year-old “genius boy” speechwriter who helped craft Barack Obama’s address to the nation. Their partnership began with a chance meeting at the Democratic convention in 2004 when Mr. Favreau – then a junior member of Sen. John Kerry, the …
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