Award-Winning Journalist Nina Munk to Publish the Inside Story of Beleaguered Media Giant AOL Time Warner With HarperCollins Publishers.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2002 HarperCollins Publishers announced today that it has acquired world English language rights to publish award-winning journalist Nina Munk's book about the controversial media conglomerate AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner. The new book will be published under the HarperBusiness imprint in 2004. Marion Maneker, the Editorial Director of HarperBusiness, negotiated the deal with Munk's agent, Elyse Cheney, of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, INC inc - /ink/ increment, i.e. increase by one. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have an "inc" mnemonic. Antonym: dec. . "With the one-two punch of Bob Pittman's resignation and the SEC's fact-finding inquiry, AOL Time Warner is now on the front page everywhere," notes Cathy Hemming, Publisher and President of the HarperCollins General Books Group. "Rarely has the story of a single company touched on so many issues -- mega-mergers, corporate synergy, e-commerce, and accounting irregularities." Munk is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, where her article about corruption among Wall Street research analysts won a 2001 Front Page Award. In 1998, when she was a Senior Writer at Fortune magazine, Munk was named Business Journalist of the Year. "Unlike Enron, Tyco or WorldCom, AOL Time Warner is a company that Americans are intimately familiar with: they've seen Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, they watch CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , subscribe to Sports Illustrated and People, and access the Internet through AOL. The AOL Time Warner saga is not just another dramatic business story; to the average American, it is a dramatic story, period," says Munk. "Power Failure," Munk's investigative piece on AOL Time Warner, was featured in the July 2002 issue of Vanity Fair. In her book, Munk will take readers behind the scenes and inside the boardroom to tell the definitive story of the creation of the world's largest media and entertainment empire. "For all we now know," she adds, "by the time this book is completed AOL Time Warner may not exist, or at least not in its current form. It has been an epic rise and fall indeed." Nina Munk is a freelance magazine writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Fortune, Forbes, and The New Yorker. Prior to that, she was a Senior Writer at Fortune and a Senior Editor at Forbes. Her Fortune cover story on Gap Inc. earned Munk the IFA Immunofluorescent assay (IFA) A blood test sometimes used to confirm ELISA results instead of using the Western blotting. In an IFA test, HIV antigen is mixed with a fluorescent compound and then with a sample of the patient's blood. Association Award for Best Retail Submission. In June 2000, Munk started an award-winning website, urbanhound.com; a companion book, Urbanhound: The New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Dog's Ultimate Survival Guide, was published in 2001. HarperCollins is one of the leading English-language publishers in the world and is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NWS NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) , NWS.A; ASX ASX See: Australian Stock Exchange : NCP, NCPDP NCPDP National Council for Prescription Drug Programs ). Headquartered in New York, the company has publishing groups in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia. Its publishing groups include the HarperCollins General Books Group, HarperCollins Children's Books Group, Zondervan, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada and HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand. The HarperCollins General Books Group is made up of four operating divisions: HarperTrade, Morrow/Avon, HarperInformation and HarperSanFrancisco. You can visit HarperCollins Publishers on the Internet at http://www.harpercollins.com. |
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