“Saying ‘yes’ doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no, and saying ‘please’ doesn’t mean I am waiting for permission,” Amy Poehler wrote in Yes Please, the celebrity’s bestselling memoir that spent 23 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.
“Our students have knowledge, opinions, and experience,” said Andrea Chambers, Director of The NYU-SCPS Center for Publishing. Turning the tables on the student/teacher dynamic, she moderated a lively panel discussion at Book Expo America: “Lessons Learned in the Classroom: What Publishing Students Teach Their Professors”. Sharing their experiences in the classroom were veteran Center for Publishing faculty: Brenda Copeland, Executive Editor, St. Martin’s Press, Macmillan; Justin Chanda, Vice President and Publisher, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster; Matt Baldacci, Vice President of Marketing, Scholastic Trade Publishing, Scholastic, Inc.; and Susan Weinberg, Group Publisher, Perseus Books Group. All teach in the Center’s M.S. in Publishing: Digital and Print Media program.
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