Camille McDuffie, who has been publisher of Columbia Global Reports since the nonfiction imprint's founding in 2014, will retire in June. McDuffie began her publishing career in the publicity department at Viking Press, then joined Lynn Goldberg Communications, where, when she became president, the company was renamed Goldberg McDuffie Communications.
Jaime Leifer will succeed McDuffie. She comes to Columbia Global Reports from the Basic Books Group at Hachette, where she most recently was the associate publisher for Basic Books, Seal Press, PublicAffairs, and Bold Type Books. She started at PublicAffairs two decades ago as a publicity assistant, and later spent two years at the New Yorker, then returned to PublicAffairs as publicity director and was named associate publisher in 2014.
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Gene Taft has joined Page One Media as senior publicity and communications strategist.
He is a 30-year veteran of the book publishing industry. He began his career at Columbia University Press, then worked for Simon & Schuster, Penguin, and the Overlook Press before becoming v-p, assistant publisher and director of publicity at PublicAffairs. He then founded GTPR, a marketing and public relations firm that he ran for 10 years. He was also the publicity manager at Johns Hopkins University Press and most recently, managed Loyalty Books in Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, Md. He has also served for 15 years on the Gaithersburg (Maryland) Book Festival's organizing committee.