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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
NBC News' Jacob Soboroff Sets Deal With HarperCollins to Chronicle Los Angeles' Devastating Blazes in ‘Firestorm'
Jacob Soboroff, a national and political correspondent for NBC News, has set a deal with HarperCollins to write a book examining the wildfires that devastated his hometown of Pacific Palisades as well as Altadena in January. 'Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster' is set to be published on Jan. 6, 2026, the day before the one-year anniversary of the start of the wind-whipped fires. More from Variety Ahead of PGA Awards, Guild Says Fighting Runaway Production Is Top Priority: 'We Have to Stand Up and Fight for Los Angeles' ABC News Plans 'SoCal Strong' Coverage, Fundraising for California Wildfire Victims MSNBC Plans Launch of 'American Swamp' Docuseries with Katy Tur, Jacob Soboroff Soboroff inked his deal with Peter Hubbard, senior VP and publisher of the HarperCollins imprint Mariner Books. The pair worked together on Soboroff's 2020 nonfiction best-seller 'Separated: Inside an American Tragedy.' That book, about the Trump administration's family separation policy for migrants, was made into a 2024 documentary helmed by Errol Morris. 'We are honored to be partnering with Jacob again as he embarks on writing a defining account of the devastating 2025 Los Angeles fires, a subject so close to his mind and heart,' Hubbard said. 'Having worked with Jacob on his first book, 'Separated,' I know that every page of 'Firestorm' will evidence his blend of dogged reporting, open-hearted attunement to human stories, and a wide-angle understanding of the complex regional, national and global implications of the L.A. fires.' Soboroff said he intends to keep the time frame of 'Firestorm' fairly narrow, given the limited time that he has to finish the book. It will focus on the momentous two weeks from the start of the blazes on Jan. 7 until Jan. 24, the day newly inauguarated President Donald Trump visited the Palisades to survey the destruction with California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Soboroff intends to establish a meticulous timeline of what happened and to capture the experiences of survivors, first responders and myriad others whose lives were up-ended by the blazes that left more than 20 people dead and more than 18,000 homes and buildings destroyed. 'It's been a real journalistic endeavor of investigating what went on and a reflection that there will be more of these fires,' Soboroff told Variety. 'It's a book-length examination of what we've experienced as a society and as a country.' Soboroff noted that his drive to write 'Firestorm' was similar to the process that led him to write 'Separated,' after he saw first-hand how the Trump administration's cruel policy of family separation for migrants was being implemented along the U.S.'s southern border. It was the jolt that inspired Soboroff to dig deep into the policy failures and political fights around immigration policy for decades. 'Family separation was the X-ray vision that allowed us to undersand the immigration system and how broken it was,' Soboroff said. 'The fire has exposed the intersection of disaster and inequality. When an event like this hapens, it makes the problems so concrete. It makes things glaringly obvious.' Soboroff grew up in the Pacific Palisades area. His brother and other family members were in harm's way when Soboroff headed out of NBC News' L.A. bureau to cover the devastation in an area he knows so well. 'This was in many ways the fire of the future,' he said. 'I felt like I was watching my childhood flash before my eyes. And this book is becoming an examination of what my children's future is going to look like as it relates to these types of disasters.' Soboroff is repped by CAA. (Pictured top: NBC News' Jacob Soboroff speaks to an employee of a restaurant destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire on Jan. 10.) Best of Variety What's Coming to Netflix in June 2025 New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts?
Yahoo
4 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
NBC News' Jacob Soboroff Sets Deal With HarperCollins to Chronicle Los Angeles' Devastating Blazes in ‘Firestorm'
Jacob Soboroff, a national and political correspondent for NBC News, has set a deal with HarperCollins to write a book examining the wildfires that devastated his hometown of Pacific Palisades as well as Altadena in January. 'Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster' is set to be published on Jan. 6, 2026, the day before the one-year anniversary of the start of the wind-whipped fires. More from Variety Ahead of PGA Awards, Guild Says Fighting Runaway Production Is Top Priority: 'We Have to Stand Up and Fight for Los Angeles' ABC News Plans 'SoCal Strong' Coverage, Fundraising for California Wildfire Victims MSNBC Plans Launch of 'American Swamp' Docuseries with Katy Tur, Jacob Soboroff Soboroff inked his deal with Peter Hubbard, senior VP and publisher of the HarperCollins imprint Mariner Books. The pair worked together on Soboroff's 2020 nonfiction best-seller 'Separated: Inside an American Tragedy.' That book, about the Trump administration's family separation policy for migrants, was made into a 2024 documentary helmed by Errol Morris. 'We are honored to be partnering with Jacob again as he embarks on writing a defining account of the devastating 2025 Los Angeles fires, a subject so close to his mind and heart,' Hubbard said. 'Having worked with Jacob on his first book, 'Separated,' I know that every page of 'Firestorm' will evidence his blend of dogged reporting, open-hearted attunement to human stories, and a wide-angle understanding of the complex regional, national and global implications of the L.A. fires.' Soboroff said he intends to keep the time frame of 'Firestorm' fairly narrow, given the limited time that he has to finish the book. It will focus on the momentous two weeks from the start of the blazes on Jan. 7 until Jan. 24, the day newly inauguarated President Donald Trump visited the Palisades to survey the destruction with California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Soboroff intends to establish a meticulous timeline of what happened and to capture the experiences of survivors, first responders and myriad others whose lives were up-ended by the blazes that left more than 20 people dead and more than 18,000 homes and buildings destroyed. 'It's been a real journalistic endeavor of investigating what went on and a reflection that there will be more of these fires,' Soboroff told Variety. 'It's a book-length examination of what we've experienced as a society and as a country.' Soboroff noted that his drive to write 'Firestorm' was similar to the process that led him to write 'Separated,' after he saw first-hand how the Trump administration's cruel policy of family separation for migrants was being implemented along the U.S.'s southern border. It was the jolt that inspired Soboroff to dig deep into the policy failures and political fights around immigration policy for decades. 'Family separation was the X-ray vision that allowed us to undersand the immigration system and how broken it was,' Soboroff said. 'The fire has exposed the intersection of disaster and inequality. When an event like this hapens, it makes the problems so concrete. It makes things glaringly obvious.' Soboroff grew up in the Pacific Palisades area. His brother and other family members were in harm's way when Soboroff headed out of NBC News' L.A. bureau to cover the devastation in an area he knows so well. 'This was in many ways the fire of the future,' he said. 'I felt like I was watching my childhood flash before my eyes. And this book is becoming an examination of what my children's future is going to look like as it relates to these types of disasters.' Soboroff is repped by CAA. (Pictured top: NBC News' Jacob Soboroff speaks to an employee of a restaurant destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire on Jan. 10.) Best of Variety What's Coming to Netflix in June 2025 New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts?
Business Upturn
28-05-2025
- Business
- Business Upturn
Writingstar Investment Guild Debuts Strategy Replay Center Under Desmond Preston's Strategic Initiative
Los Angeles, CA, May 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Writingstar Investment Guild has announced the release of its newest platform feature: the Strategy Replay Center, a tool designed to help users review, dissect, and evaluate their past decision-making processes in the context of actual market developments. This feature is the latest in a series of functionality expansions led by founder and strategic director Desmond Preston, reinforcing the Guild's position at the forefront of cognitive-driven investment platforms. Unlike traditional transaction history logs, the Strategy Replay Center offers an interactive interface that overlays user actions with real-time price movements, sentiment shifts, and key macroeconomic events. Users can view the full logic trail of their previous decisions, from initial hypotheses to execution points, and compare these with alternative scenarios they may have overlooked at the time. 'This is not about gamifying past trades,' said Desmond Preston. 'It's about building accountability and pattern recognition. We want users to confront both their successes and missteps with clarity—and to develop a personal discipline rooted in structured reasoning, not just performance metrics.' The feature includes the following core components: Timeline Reconstruction: Allows users to map decisions against market data minute by minute. Rationale Logging: Captures thought processes behind asset selection, timing, and allocation. Scenario Comparison: Enables toggling between chosen and skipped opportunities to reflect on decision thresholds. Cognitive Bias Tagging: Flags common distortions such as overtrading, anchoring, or loss aversion. Data presented within the Strategy Replay Center is anonymized and encrypted, ensuring privacy while allowing aggregate behavior analysis for future feature development. Early access participants reported improved awareness of impulse decisions and greater confidence in updating personal investment playbooks. In line with Writingstar Investment Guild's infrastructure roadmap, the Strategy Replay Center is now live across all web platforms and will be integrated into mobile applications later this quarter. It is available to all registered members at no additional cost. This launch affirms the Guild's belief that investment is as much about reflection as it is about projection—a principle that Desmond Preston has embedded into the platform's strategic DNA since its founding. About Writingstar Investment Guild Founded by Desmond Preston, Writingstar Investment Guild is a global investment cognition platform focused on rational decision-making and behavioral awareness. With a mission to transform how individuals engage with financial markets, the Guild provides tools, insights, and frameworks that elevate investment from reactive trading to disciplined strategy. Disclaimer: The information provided in this press release is not a solicitation for investment, nor is it intended as investment advice, financial advice, or trading advice. It is strongly recommended you practice due diligence, including consultation with a professional financial advisor, before investing in or trading cryptocurrency and securities. Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same.
Business Upturn
28-05-2025
- Business
- Business Upturn
Dreamers Investment Guild Commemorates 15 Years With Founding Speech by Sterling Preston
New York, NY, May 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Dreamers Investment Guild today hosted a commemorative event marking its 15th year as a leader in cognitive investment education. The focal point of the ceremony was a keynote speech delivered by founder Sterling Preston, offering a rare behind-the-scenes narrative on the platform's original purpose, strategic challenges, and long-term mission to redefine how investment knowledge is understood and taught. Preston's address, delivered before an audience of Guild members, global educators, and institutional partners, traced the journey from a single curriculum prototype in 2010 to today's multi-continent education infrastructure spanning 42 countries and thousands of learners. He emphasized that the Guild was never intended to be a financial product company, but rather an 'engine for thinking clarity under market pressure.' 'When Dreamers Investment Guild was founded, most people were chasing hot tips and headlines,' said Preston. 'What was missing—and still is in many places—is the ability to structure information, judge relevance, and hold conviction under uncertainty. That's what we set out to build—a place where investment is taught as a cognitive responsibility.' During his remarks, Preston outlined three defining stages in the Guild's history: Disruption by Discipline (2010–2014): Launch of the first structured investment logic curriculum, focusing on market cycles, risk asymmetry, and probability judgment. Systematization and Global Access (2015–2019): Expansion into modular learning architecture, translation into six languages, and onboarding of institutional learners. Strategic Deepening and Identity (2020–2025): Emphasis on layered thinking, real-time feedback models, and the development of decision calibration tools rooted in behavioral data. He also used the occasion to announce the release of a founder's essay collection titled 'Patterns, Pressure, and Patience: Notes from the Cognitive Edge', which includes unpublished reflections, early drafts of Guild frameworks, and insight into the platform's long-term educational design logic. As part of the commemorative event, members were invited to participate in live forums exploring personal reflections on their own investment learning evolution. The event concluded with the symbolic unveiling of the Guild's updated mission statement: 'To make clarity a skill and strategy a structure, in every investment mind that seeks to understand.' The speech was broadcast live across the Guild's global hubs and will be archived on its institutional portal along with subtitled translations and a downloadable transcript. About Dreamers Investment Guild Founded in 2010, Dreamers Investment Guild is a global cognitive investment education platform that emphasizes structured learning, behavioral analysis, and long-term reasoning. Under the direction of Sterling Preston, the Guild continues to redefine investment education by helping individuals build clarity, strategy, and cognitive resilience in complex market environments. Disclaimer: The information provided in this press release is not a solicitation for investment, nor is it intended as investment advice, financial advice, or trading advice. It is strongly recommended you practice due diligence, including consultation with a professional financial advisor, before investing in or trading cryptocurrency and securities. Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same.
Business Wire
23-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Guild Holdings Company Comments on Schedule 13D Filing
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Guild Holdings Company (NYSE: GHLD) ('Guild'), a growth-oriented mortgage company that employs a relationship-based loan sourcing strategy to execute on its mission of delivering the promise of homeownership, today issued the following statement in response to a Schedule 13D filed by Bayview Asset Management, LLC (together with its affiliates, 'Bayview'): Guild confirms that it has been approached by Bayview and is engaging in friendly preliminary discussions regarding a broader commercial relationship and potential corporate transaction, which may include a significant minority investment, merger, asset purchases or other business combinations. No agreement has been reached and there can be no certainty that these discussions will lead to a transaction, or as to the terms on which a transaction, if any, might be agreed. Guild will not comment on speculation regarding any potential transaction or its terms. Based on the Schedule 13D, Bayview beneficially owns 7.3% of Guild's total Class A common stock and less than 1% of the total voting power of Guild's outstanding common stock. About Guild Holdings Company Guild Mortgage Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Guild Holdings Company (NYSE: GHLD), was founded in 1960 and is a nationally recognized independent mortgage lender providing residential mortgage products and local in-house origination and servicing. Guild employs a relationship-based loan sourcing strategy to execute on its mission of delivering the promise of home ownership in neighborhoods and communities across 49 states and the District of Columbia. Guild's highly trained loan professionals are experienced in government-sponsored programs such as FHA, VA, USDA, down payment assistance programs and other specialized loan programs. For more information visit Forward-Looking Statements This press release of Guild Holdings Company (the 'Company') contains forward-looking statements that are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. These statements are often, but not always, made through the use of words or phrases such as 'may,' 'should,' 'could,' 'predict,' 'potential,' 'believe,' 'will likely result,' 'expect,' 'continue,' 'will,' 'anticipate,' 'seek,' 'estimate,' 'intend,' 'plan,' 'projection,' 'would' and 'outlook,' or the negative version of those words or other comparable words or phrases of a future or forward-looking nature. Forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current expectations and are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Further, certain forward-looking statements are based on assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. Important factors that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following: significant changes to the size, structure, powers, and operations of the federal government and uncertainties regarding the potential for future changes, could cause disruptions to the regulatory environment in which we operate and could adversely impact our business and results of operations; changes in economic conditions, including as a result of macroeconomic policy changes by the U.S. government, may adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations; any disruptions in the secondary home loan market and their effects on our ability to sell the loans that we originate at attractive pricing; any changes in macroeconomic and U.S. residential real estate market conditions; any changes in certain U.S. government-sponsored entities and government agencies, and any organizational or pricing changes in these entities, their guidelines or their current roles; any changes in prevailing interest rates or U.S. monetary policies; the effects of any termination of our servicing rights; we depend on our loan funding facilities to fund mortgage loans and otherwise operate our business; the effects of our existing and future indebtedness on our liquidity and our ability to operate our business; any disruption in the technology that supports our origination and servicing platform; our failure to identify, develop and integrate acquisitions of other companies or technologies; pressure from existing and new competitors; any failure to maintain or grow our historical referral relationships with our referral partners; any delays in recovering service advances; any failure to adapt to and implement technological changes; any cybersecurity breaches or other vulnerability involving our computer systems or those of certain of our third-party service providers; our inability to secure additional capital, if needed, to operate and grow our business; the impact of operational risks, including employee or consumer fraud, the obligation to repurchase sold loans in the event of a documentation error, and data processing system failures and errors; any repurchase or indemnification obligations caused by the failure of the loans that we originate to meet certain criteria or characteristics; the seasonality of the mortgage origination industry; any non-compliance with or substantial changes to the complex laws and regulations governing our mortgage loan origination and servicing activities; material changes to the laws, regulations or practices applicable to reverse mortgage programs; our control by, and any conflicts of interest with, McCarthy Capital Mortgage Investors, LLC; our dependence, as a holding company, upon distributions from Guild Mortgage Company LLC to meet our obligations; the outcome of the discussions with Bayview and the effect of the announcement in this press release on Guild's results and business generally, ability to attract, retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with others with whom Guild does business; and the other risks set forth under Item IA. Risk Factors in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 and the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2025, as well as other filings the Company may make from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and, except as otherwise required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement made in this press release.
