They say print is dead and that young people will only read articles online. Tell that to UCLA student Lucia Tran. The 18-year-old freshman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Zooey–a print lifestyle magazine with national distribution through Barnes and Noble. Tran has a nice profile in The Daily Bruin.

When Tran was 14 she started the online mag Inspire. Two years later she went analog, creating a print product she renamed Zooey, in honor of the J.D. Salinger book Franny and Zooey. She started the mag with a $10,000 dollar loan from relatives and now brings in $40,000 annually two years later. She has staffers in LA, New York and Oklahoma.

Very impressive, to say the least. Tran will speak about her business tonight at 7:30 at UCLA. More info here.

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Tipped by a reader, the publisher of Santa Barbara website Noozhawk.com did a little digging and discovered that two of six entries written for the site by Steven Kunes were lifted from Newsweek. The articles in question — “My Children the Experts” and “Don’t Judge the Book by a Cover” — are near word-for-word duplications of work by the magazine’s Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Anna Quindlen. As a result, all six Kunes Noozhawk.com submissions have been removed:

“I’m sorry that Mr. Kunes felt compelled – for reasons that escape me – to blatantly and willfully abuse our trust, to violate our community submissions policies, and to put Noozhawk’s good reputation at risk,” said publisher Bill Macfadyen. “We do take allegations of plagiarism very seriously and will act quickly to protect our name and copyrights. I apologize to our readers for betraying their trust and to Ms. Quindlen, the unsuspecting victim.”

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From AP:

NEW YORK (AP) – J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose “The Catcher in the Rye” shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.

Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author’s son said in a statement from Salinger’s literary representative. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.

“The Catcher in the Rye,” with its immortal teenage protagonist, the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfield, came out in 1951, a time of anxious, Cold War conformity and the dawn of modern adolescence. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which made “Catcher” a featured selection, advised that for “anyone who has ever brought up a son” the novel will be “a source of wonder and delight – and concern.”

Read the whole post here.

LAT doesn’t have their obit up. We’ll post more as we get them.

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