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ASJA
The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) celebrates Iran's release of The Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, along with four other Americans who had been imprisoned in the Islamic Republic. The Americans were freed as part of a prisoner swap negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
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ASJA
The American Society of Journalists and Authors joined more than 40 organizations committed to government openness and accountability in signing on to a letter to the leadership of the House of Representatives. The letter, which was coordinated by OpenTheGovernment.org, expresses support for a new bill with reforms to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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Tania Casselle, ASJA
 Writers don’t always like being in front of the camera. We're more at home behind the scenes, right? But if you’re preparing for a Skype chat in the ASJA Virtual Client Connections event (or for any other video meeting) here are some tips to help you look and feel better on screen.
ASJA has provided Skype technical advice already but many people worry about how they appear. I often have Skype meetings and it's true that we all usually look less than our adorable best. The good news is that you quickly forget about it once you're engaged in the video conversation. The person on the other side of the screen will also look less than divine and they know it too. Nobody is competing over who looks most pasty and podgy. So relax, set the stage and then focus on substance over style.
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Publishers Weekly
There's no shortage of marketing and publicity services that promise to help self-published authors secure media attention and book reviews and increase sales. For the unschooled, however, it's hard to know whom to hire, how much to invest, and what type of marketing and publicity will make a difference.
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NPR
The Authors Guild has started the new year with a bang. First, the group, which represents the interests of writers, asked the Supreme Court to review an October appeals court ruling, which upheld Google's right to digitize out-of-print books without an author's permission. A few days later, the guild addressed a separate issue when it released a letter to publishers demanding better contract terms for authors.
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The New York Times
Ta-Nehisi Coates, already a National Book Award winner for "Between the World and Me," now has a chance to add a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism to his mantel. Coates’s book, a meditation on racism in America written in the form of a letter to his son, joins works by the novelist Lauren Groff, the memoirist and critic Vivian Gornick and the poet Ada Limón among those nominated for the awards.
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The Huffington Post
When Brisbane mortgage broker Samantha Bright heard somebody say "self-publishing a book is a business card on steroids," she knew she had to write a book of her own. "In the Red Sea of mortgage brokers, I had to find a way to stand out from the crowd and my book is my big point of difference," Bright said. The digital age has shaken up the traditional book publishing market in many ways but these days there’s an increasing push for small business people to self-publish their own book as a unique marketing tool.
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The Atlantic
On Tuesday, three of Philadelphia's most important journalistic resources — its legendary daily newspaper, the Inquirer; its accomplished tabloid, the Daily News; and its main news website, Philly.com — took the first step toward becoming nonprofits.
In a complicated transaction, their owner, H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest, donated them to the Philadelphia Foundation, the city's main philanthropic organization.
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Good E-Reader
There are thousands of e-books on the Amazon Kindle Store that have content errors. This can be as simple as a series of spelling mistakes or the book might have formatting issues. Starting Feb. 3, Amazon will begin showing customers a warning message on the Kindle store detail pages of books that contain several validated quality issues. The warning message will be removed as soon as Amazon received an updated file from self-published authors or publishing companies.
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Reuters Institute
This year's key developments will center on online video, mobile apps and further moves towards distributed content. Mounting problems around online display advertising will lead to a burst of innovation around journalism business models.
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Quartz
The reign of the consumer magazine — glossy, beautiful, and once a ubiquitous presence atop living room coffee tables around the world — seems to be quietly crumbling.
Print books are making something of a comeback right now, thanks in part to the rise of coloring books and a swelling public interest in children's literature. Newspapers, catering to hyper-local communities, are faring pretty well, too.
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