Media and Publicity
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March 13, 2025PRH & Little Free Library Celebrate 200,000th Library Milestone at St. Paul Elementary School
On Tuesday, March 11th, Penguin Random House partnered with Little Free Library (LFL) to celebrate a significant milestone: the installation of the 200,000th Little Free Library book-sharing box at Benjamin E. Mays IB World School, an elementary school in St. Paul’s historic Rondo neighborhood.
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February 20, 20256 PRH Titles Shortlisted for the 2025 Lukas Prizes Announced by the Columbia Journalism School
On February 19, 2025, Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University announced the 2025 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize.
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February 12, 2025Grupo Editorial Author Eloy Moreno Sets Guinness World Record for Most Book Signed in a Single Day
At 5:30 a.m. in Madrid, at the Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial office, Eloy Moreno set out to defeat the previous Guinness World Record for books signed in a single day, which had previously been 6,904 copies.
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January 17, 2025HOPE: Celebrating the Global Publication of the First Memoir by a Sitting Pontiff
On Tuesday, January 14, Random House Group published HOPE, the autobiography of Pope Francis in the US. The U.S. edition of the first memoir by a sitting pontiff is edited by Molly Turpin, Senior Editor, Random House. HOPE, which took the Pontiff six years to write, is published simultaneously worldwide in principal languages and in over 80 countries in time for the 2025 Jubilee of Hope.
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January 15, 2025Pippi Longstocking Celebrates 80 Years & Sutton Foster Voices the Audiobook of the Classic Series
Tony Award-winning actress Sutton Foster (Once Upon a Mattress, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Younger) will narrate three of Astrid Lindgren’s classic Pippi Longstocking audiobooks (Listening Library; on sale March 4, 2025) as part of a yearlong celebration of Pippi’s 80th birthday!
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January 10, 2025Felicity Vallence Talks Booktok & Romantasy on WSJ’s “The Journal”
With a Supreme Court hearing scheduled for today, Friday, January 10, everyone is talking about the future of TikTok. Amid the buzz, Felicity Vallence, Director of Digital Marketing, Penguin Young Readers, was featured in late December on the Wall Street Journal podcast “The Journal” where she discussed the impact BookTok has had on the publishing industry.
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January 8, 2025Introducing Thousand Voices x RHPG, a New Publishing Venture from the Random House Publishing Group & Jenna Bush Hager’s Thousand Voices Media
The new partnership is to publish debut and emerging authors across the Random House Publishing Group’s portfolio of imprints. The Random House Publishing Group and Thousand Voices, the media company of Jenna Bush Hager, are launching an innovative publishing venture: THOUSAND VOICES x RHPG, it was announced today by Sanyu Dillon, President, Random House Publishing Group, and Jenna Bush Hager, the founder of Thousand Voices Media.
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January 8, 2025Penguin Random House Partners With Little Free Library to Celebrate 200,000th Library Launch Milestone
Penguin Random House is collaborating with longtime partner Little Free Library® (LFL), the global nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding book access and building community, to celebrate the installation of their 200,000th Little Free Library book-sharing box.
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