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Publishing Course – Yale Style

Yale University’s summer publishing course for senior-level professionals brings together an international audience and industry experts. The special week-long course, one for book publishing on July 22-27th, and another week for magazine and digital publishing on July 15-20th, encourages participants to get away from daily routines and immerse themselves in a course with a global perspective on the strategies and innovations needed today. Yale’s mission: to provide participants of the publishing courses with knowledge and skills that will enable them to be more effective leaders.

You are bound to make some great contacts, too. EWIP members receive $250 discount off the tuition. When applying, enter code YPC12EWP on your application.

 

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A Step in the Right Direction from Vogue Magazine

Props are due to Vogue magazine, if not to parent company Conde Nast. According to the Associated Press, Vogue will no longer work with children younger than 16, or women with eating disorders.

So too young and too thin is out.

This applies to all the editions of Vogue published in the U.S. and worldwide. It’s an important step–although only a step. Sixteen is still very young; and for a mother of girls it is shocking to hear of children as young as fourteen modeling adult clothes.

Also, Conde Nast has no plans to adopt these guidelines across the company–which means that its other fashion magazines will continue to hire children and dangerously thin women.

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Publishing, Girl Power, and Raising Money Online

My son in law, Ben Aldrich, co founder of SatYuga Studios, thought that I would be interested in Kickstart, an internet-enabled way of raising venture capital, donation by small donation. He linked me to Wollstonecraft, a “pro-math, pro-science, pro-history and pro-literature adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems and catch a jewel thief.”

The project does seem to combine everything we love:  publishing, entrepreneurship, girl power, the internet, and a fun dollop of steampunk to leaven it all.  And Kickstart is an interesting project, especially for women.  Women’s projects, we are told, get only 3% of existing venture capital.  This entrepreneurial approach to raising money might be a godsend for independent women publishers.

Has anyone tried it?  I’d love to hear your stories.

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EWIP Leadership Conference [the video]

You get a taste of EWIP’s 2012 conference viewing this snappy video. We captured much more from the event, including significant recordings of the panel sessions. Watch this overview now and when we complete editing the rest, we will share the remarkable video with you on EWIP’s video channel on YouTube. Subscribe to the channel and you will be notified when these more in depth “video conversations” are released.

Video produced by Jackson Street Productions, with additional photographs by Nader Khouri.