Agate Publishing is partnering with Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications to publish nonfiction books by journalists. Under the imprint Medill Books, the partnership will launch with a pilot title that should appear in late 2026.
Agate founder and president Doug Seibold said, "I've published dozens of journalists during my career in book publishing, and before that I spent a decade working as a magazine editor and freelance writer myself. My hope is that this new imprint might become another sustainable channel for journalists to publish longform work of all kinds."
Medill dean Charles Whitaker said, "We are excited that our partnership with Agate will provide us with another important avenue to support journalism and journalists by seeking out and publishing ambitious nonfiction work in book form."
Agate has published book-length work by multiple Pulitzer Prize winners, including Nick Chiles (Justice While Black) and Leonard Pitts, Jr. (Forward from This Moment and Becoming Dad). A partnership with the Chicago Tribune has led to nearly 20 print titles and 80 brief e-books that feature many Tribune-related works as well as work by journalists at other newspapers and magazines in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and elsewhere.
Journalists may submit proposals of reported nonfiction work of roughly 10,000-30,000 words to submissions@agatepublishing.com, with the subject line "Medill Books proposal."