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The Columbia Publishing Course, formerly known as the Radcliffe Publishing Course, is a six-week graduate-level summer course on book, magazine, and digital publishing at Columbia University.^[1]

Many of the course's graduates have gone on to be editors in the "Big Five" publishing companies. The program is known for its lectures held by industry leaders,^{[according to whom?]} many of whom are graduates of the course themselves; and for its two immersive workshop weeks, "Book Week" and "Magazine Week," in which students plan and design their own book imprint and magazine brand, respectively.^[2] Some student work have gone on to become actual books, including the bestselling Lean In: Women, Work and the Will To Lead by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg.^[3]

It was established in 1947 at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Edith Gratia Stedman, as a training course for women looking to get into publishing. It became co-ed in 1949. In 2000, when Radcliffe was integrated into Harvard University, the program was moved to Pulitzer Hall at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.^[4]

The Columbia Publishing Course has also offered a four-week sister program in September at Exeter College in Oxford, England since 2016.^[5]

Shaye Areheart, a former Doubleday editor, has been director of the Columbia Publishing Course since 2013, having been a lecturer for it since 1988. Areheart took over the course after the death of longtime director Lindy Hess, who was known for launching the careers of many editors.^[6][7][8]

Renowned editor Robert Gottlieb is shown addressing the course in the 2022 documentary Turn Every Page.^[9]

Notable graduates

• Lee Bourdeaux, Ecco Press^[10]
• Christopher Carduff, Wall Street Journal book editor^[11]
• David Davidar, Penguin India^[12]
• Morgan Entrekin, publisher of Grove/Atlantic^[13]
• Steven Florio, president of Conde Nast Publications^[14]
• David M. Granger, editor-in-chief of Esquire^[15][16]
• Jazmine Hughes, New York Times Magazine editor^[17]
• Madeline McIntosh, CEO of Penguin Random House^[18]
• Jim Murphy, author^[19]
• Victor Navasky, publisher and editor of The Nation^[20]
• Jordan Pavlin, editor-in-chief of Knopf^[21]

See also

• Book publishing in New York City
• Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
• Radcliffe College

References