Yale Publishing Course

Yale Publishing Course (YPC), located on the campus of

online publishing professionals. The course focuses on teaching leadership skills for today's increasingly global, increasingly digital environment. YPC's curriculum is geared to middle and upper-level professionals from all over the world. Its speakers include publishing and media executives as well as faculty from the Yale School of Management and Yale University Press

staff. The Yale Course is the only advanced-level program for senior managers in the publishing industry.

The program combines plenary sessions with smaller group discussions focused on specific issues and case studies. The curriculum includes sessions on such topics as:

content delivery

; legal challenges in multi-platform publishing; licensing and marketing internationally; and the future of digital dissemination. Faculty office hours facilitate one-on-one meetings with students to explore specific questions or challenges.

History

The Yale Publishing Course was founded in 2010 to fill the gap left by the decades-old Stanford University Publishing Course for Professionals. It builds upon the Stanford tradition and concentrates more heavily on the business and management aspects of publishing as a global enterprise. It also provides a strong emphasis on understanding and using the latest advances in technology.

The Yale Publishing Course began in 2010 as a one-week session, with students from all over the United States and 16 other countries. Students represented all areas of publishing including administration, editorial, sales, publicity, marketing, design, production, business, new media, and new product development. For its 2011 program, YPC was expanded to two sessions: one week focusing on magazine and online publishing, and a week-long session focusing on print and digital book publishing.

The course was suspended in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] It has not run since, announcing in 2022 that it was suspended "for the foreseeable future."^[2]^[3]

Program advisors

Program advisors for magazines:

Mary K. Baumann – Partner, Hopkins/Baumann
Christopher Donnellan – Executive Director, Rights and Permissions, Condé Nast
Duncan Edwards – President and CEO,
Hearst Magazines International
Richard Foster – Senior Faculty Fellow, Yale School of Management; Managing Partner, Millbrook Management Group; Lead Director, Innosight, LLC; Venture Partner, Lux Capital
Joe Galarneau – Chief Operating Officer, Newsweek, and General Manager, Newsweek Digital
Jonathan Hart – Partner, Dow Lohnes PLLC
Dorothy Kalins – Director, Dorothy Kalins Ink, and Founding Editor of Metropolitan Home and Saveur
Peter A. Kreisky – Chairman, The Kreisky Media Consultancy, LLC
Atlantic Monthly
Cynthia Leive – Editor-in-Chief, Glamour