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Thank you. From Wondry. I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Thursday, August 6th.

Welcome back to our series on the origin stories of some of America's

oldest companies. Today, the story of a renowned book publisher, Simon & Schuster. As you'll hear,

the news when we aired this episode in March was that the company, to many, a cultural institution,

was up for sale, and by the way it still is. But recently, Simon and Schuster made more news. The

century-old company hired its first black female publisher, Dana Kennedy. For the last three

years, Kennedy was the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. For 20 years before that,

Kennedy covered race, class, politics, and business as a reporter and senior editor at the New York

Times. In 2001, she was a business as a reporter and senior editor at the New York Times.

In 2001, she was a member of a team of Times journalists who won a Pulitzer Prize for a series

called How Race is Lived in America.

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