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Knopf: The Business of Taste

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M.S. in Publishing students with Knopf's Erinn Hartman, Diana Miller, Peter Mendelsund (1st, 2nd, and 4th from left), Russell Perreault (front left), Tim O'Connell (front right), and Paul Bogaards (rear right).
M.S. in Publishing students with Knopf’s Erinn Hartman, Diana Miller, Peter Mendelsund (1st, 2nd, and 4th from left), Russell Perreault (front left), Tim O’Connell (front right), and Paul Bogaards (rear right).

“People are reading!” said Paul Bogaards, Executive Director of Publicity, Promotion, & Media Relations at Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House (U.S.). “We’re very optimistic!” As Knopf approaches its 100th anniversary in 2015, the imprint has good reason to celebrate a storied literary legacy. During one of the regular industry visits sponsored by the NYU-SCPS M.S. in Publishing: Digital & Print Media program, students met with Bogaards as well as with editors, publicists, and a top art director to learn more about the traditions and philosophy of publishing at Knopf.

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Meet the Faculty… Inside and Outside the Classroom

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Marketers, lawyers, “transformation” experts, oh my! The new faculty members teaching in the NYU M.S. in Publishing: Digital & Print Media program this fall are an eclectic and highly experienced group joining our full roster of 70 top media executives. To tell you more about them, we decided to give you not only the official bios of our latest faculty members, but some insights into their passions outside the classroom:

Jeff Barish (Magazine Advertising: Print and Online) is Senior Executive Director of Digital Sales at Condé Nast, where he is responsible for web, mobile and tablet advertising sales across all Condé Nast brands. Previously, he was Associate Publisher and VP of Advertising at Newsweek/The Daily Beast and before that, Advertising Director of Condé Nast Portfolio. He has also held senior management positions at Tribune Media Net, Thomson Financial Media, Fresh Baked Studios, and Metal Bulletin. Jeff received his degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Green-blooded Jeff Barish lives and breathes for the New York Jets. [Read more…] about Meet the Faculty… Inside and Outside the Classroom

Random House CEO Markus Dohle: “Focusing on What We Do Best”

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Random House Chairman and CEO Markus Dohle and NYU-SPI students

Star struck. That’s how the 116 Summer Publishing Institute (SPI) students felt. The man standing in front of us was the embodiment of all that we hoped to achieve in our careers. He strode into the room confidently, smiling, easing our nerves at meeting one of the most influential people in the publishing industry—and someone most of us desperately hoped to work for: Markus Dohle, Chairman and CEO of Random House, was ready to guide us through the changes facing book publishing currently and in the future.
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Spotlight on M.S. Publishing Alumni

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Three notable graduates of the NYU M.S. in  Publishing program recently spoke with current student Seth Harris, a digital business development analyst at Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., about their newest roles within the publishing industry. They also discussed how they are applying aspects of the program to their current jobs, and advice for new and current students.

Random House Children's Books' Till Wirth
Till Wirth was recently promoted at Random House.

Till Wirth recently was promoted to manager of digital content and product development at Random House Children’s Books. He began working at Random House as an intern while a graduate student in publishing at NYU, where he received the program’ s Oscar Dystel Fellowship and  2008 Excellence in Achievement Award in Book Publishing. Before coming to New York, Wirth managed his family’s book publishing house in Germany. [Read more…] about Spotlight on M.S. Publishing Alumni