Beacon Weekly Report

June 25, 2009

Headlines:

• Publicity Round UP for The Daddy Shift, Jeremy Adam Smith Father’s Day Campaign

• Publicity Round UP for The King Legacy

Publicity Reviews, and Praise:

The Daddy Shift, Jeremy Adam Smith, June 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-2120-0

• Salon.com; lead story on Saturday, June 20th

  http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/06/20/daddy_shift/?source=newsletter

• USA Today; Smith is mentioned in sidebar (to a story about Michael Lewis’s book)

  http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-06-17-michael-lewis-home-game-fatherhood_N.htm

• San Francisco Chronicle; feature story on Sunday, June 21st

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/20/LVUK1810RJ.DTL
  
  These papers picked up the Chronicle story:

• Hart to Heart: Dads man up to be Mr. Moms
  Savannah Morning News - Savannah, GA

• Changing rolls mean fatherhood isn't what it used to be
  StarNewsOnline.com - Wilmington, NC

• New-style dads: involved, cool and a little nervous
  Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville, KY

• Lancaster, PA newspaper article about dads adjusting to new roles at home:

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/239079

Blog Coverage:

• http://www.businessweek.com/careers/workingparents/blog/archives/2009/06/today_a_third_o.html

• http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2009/06/18/dads-at-home-inconceivable/

• http://blogs.urbanbaby.com/buzz/tag/the-daddy-shift/

• Outright Blog - http://blog.outright.com/

• http://www.mothertalkers.com/story/2009/6/23/5779/-Late-Night-Liberty:-Review-of-The-Daddy-Shift

• http://trueslant.com/lizandastri/2009/06/22/read-this-before-your-first-father

Electronic Coverage:

• Here and Now/NPR; Friday, June 19th

  http://www.hereandnow.org/

• The Takeaway/PRI; Friday, June 19th

  http://www.thetakeaway.org/stories/2009/jun/19/daddy-and-his-shifting-role-father/

• CBC Radio (national radio in Canada); Friday, June 19th

  http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2009/200906/20090619.html

• World Today Weekend on CKNW in British Columbia; Sunday, June 22nd

• Wisconsin Public Radio/Joy Cardin Show; Monday, June 22nd

• KVON Radio/The Morning Show; Tuesday, June 22

• KGO TV (ABC News); Tuesday, June 23rd

  http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6879663

• NBC News (San Francisco); taped interview Tuesday, June 23rd; air date to come

• Leonard Lopate Show/WNYC Radio (NPR New York); Wednesday, July 22nd; live in studio

On June 22nd the Associated Press reported on Beacon’s announcement of The King Legacy project. The story has received heavy pickup, garnering wide attention from many local and national publications. Below is a small sampling of some of the most notable mentions in the media

• National Public Radio

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105759147

• BBC News

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8114592.stm

• CBS News

  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/22/ap/entertainment/main5103977.shtml

• USA Today

  http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-06-22-mlk-books_N.htm

• The New Yorker, Book Bench blog; under the June 23rd “In the News” posting

  http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/?xrail

This Week in Beacon Broadside, a project of Beacon Press (www.beaconbroadside.com):

• Observation Post by Philip C. Winslow Ending Israel’s Settlements

• David W. Moore: Five Reasons Why the Iranian Pre-Election Poll Can't Be Trusted

•  Jeremy Adam Smith: Father’s Day Recommended Reading

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