Kansas City Call Building The Kansas City Call, founded in 1919, became one of the city’s most influential newspapers for the Black community while reporting on community affairs and advocating for civil rights.
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Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
20 Oct. 2026
As the kid grew up in Los Angeles, shining shoes, selling newspapers, and vowing, unlike the rest of his family, to get an education, one impulse drove him on.
For writers managing a steady flow of articles, newsletters, emails, or marketing copy, the appeal here is a consistent workflow built around their voice.
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StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
21 Oct. 2026
Spotlight clients and partners through newsletters, interviews and social channels.
Eventually, Saint found steady work on radio serials and early television dramas.
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Valerie J. Nelson,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Oct. 2026
But there was a time when comic-book heroes appeared on movie screens only sparingly — particularly between the waning days of old serials and the premiere of Superman in 1978.
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Jesse Hassenger,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Aug. 2026
What Allen Lane had in mind, though, was a departure from earlier paperback ventures that had been aimed largely at the readers of story magazines and dime novels.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2026
From the earliest days of his film career, fan magazines and movie columnists fixed on the unconventionality of Astaire's image.
My sister, the author Jacqueline Moriarty, works in a particularly beautiful chocolate shop, which is also a café and looks really magical, and her books often do have a magical side to them.
Two of the world’s leading medical journals published key studies this week that shed even more light on how ADHD impacts adults.
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Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
23 Oct. 2026
The library used to house thousands of books, journals, and reports that employees could use to learn, research, and explore ideas — much like The Garage.
Some of these digital pamphlets provide terse, functional updates while others act as the successors to bygone alt-weeklies, covering cultural happenings and carrying out local-interest investigations.
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Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
The Southern California News Group is made up of 11 daily news publications and several weeklies throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
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