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Fiona Young-Brown, ASJA
 I was never a good science student. While I excelled at other subjects, science made my eyes glaze over. When I took my last chemistry class at the age of 13, I left in my wake the remnants of so many failed experiments. I continued with physics just long enough to get my one basic qualification at 15. Never would I have to do science again.
How, then, do I now find myself with a forthcoming book on, of all things, nuclear fusion and fission? And why have some of my most rewarding (financially and mentally) writing projects involved the very subjects that once filled me with dread?
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ASJA
 Discover how to tell a story with a fresh angle, make more money with your content marketing, attract more readers to your blog, and much more at ASJA's 45th Annual Writers Conference. Sign up today for two days of education, networking, and sharing winning strategies with top writers, editors, agents, and content buyers.
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Student Press Law Center
ASJA joined a coalition of national free-speech organizations in signing an amicus brief calling on a federal appeals court to reverse the ruling of a Florida judge who threw out the free-speech claims of three Valencia College students punished for objecting to a college policy forcing them to undergo vaginal ultrasound tests as part of a class exercise.
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Publishers Weekly
The annual celebration of the freedom to read, set this year for Sept. 25-Oct. 1, will focus on banned books written by people of color. The event will also look to examine why titles by diverse writers are so often challenged. The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom estimates that over half of all banned books are by authors of color, or contain events and issues concerning diverse communities. Banned Books Week 2016 will explore why diverse books are being disproportionately singled out.
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Writer's Digest
The dream of every freelance writer is the "big get." That is, writing for the largest, best-known markets we can land. Bigger markets, after all, mean more prestige and better money. But there also can be tremendous value in writing for smaller markets—something a lot of writers tend to forget as they chase bigger fish.
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GalleyCat
New authors looking to get into the publishing business deal will need to have a book proposal to get a publisher or agent to even look at their work. Publishing consultant Jane Friedman (not to be confused with Jane Friedman, the Open Road CEO/former HarperCollins CEO) outlined some great tips for writing a book proposal. These steps are great insights to help you get started in writing a book proposal.
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The New York Times
When you conduct a Google search on your smartphone for a newsy topic — say, "Donald Trump" — the results starting on Wednesday will include a horizontal carousel of news articles, each with a little lightning bolt icon and the letters AMP at the bottom. Click on any one of the articles, and it will come up immediately, with no wait. The fast-loading format, developed by Google with input from a wide range of publishers, is the latest effort by online publications to solve a problem that is the bane of smartphone users everywhere: Most mobile Web pages take too long to load.
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Observer
There were MP3 players before there was an iPod and there were e-books before there was a Kindle, but the iPod made the market for digital music real and the Kindle did the same for digital books. For whatever reason, it took each of those devices to crystallize each space. The Kindle showed up six years later after the iPod, so maybe it makes sense that the publishing world is still basically in denial that the future isn't analog.
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Content Standard
Twitter recently added fuel to the native content fire with its announcement that the long-rumored 10,000-character Tweet is imminent. Last month, we examined what that length could mean for enterprises that have Twitter content strategies. This time, we look at whether this format change has fully initiated a publishers' race to the bottom —where media outlets are pitted against one another in a high-stakes game of chicken.
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Forbes
Ding! The elevator doors open and a dozen undergraduates shuffle into a room striped with desks and dotted with writers. This open office is Buzzfeed headquarters – the birthplace of some of the most widely-read stories on the Internet. Electric red hues in the newsroom are softened by writers wearing denim and circular stickers in canary yellow pasted everywhere and bearing catchwords such as "win, “noms” or “LOL.” A smiling staff writer ushers us into one of the conference rooms named after members of Destiny’s Child.
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