Jaime Leifer to Succeed Camille McDuffie at Columbia Global Reports

Camille McDuffie will retire as publisher of Columbia Global Reports in June. Jaime Leifer, associate publisher at Hachette’s Basic Books Group, will succeed her.

McDuffie began her publishing career in the publicity department at Viking Press, then went on to become president of Lynn Goldberg Communications, later Goldberg McDuffie Communications, where she handled publicity campaigns for such authors as Harold Bloom, Umberto Eco, Barry Lopez, and Maria Shriver and such organizations as the New Yorker and the National Book Awards.

Leifer started at PublicAffairs as a publicity assistant before moving to the New Yorker, where she handled media coverage fort the magazine. She returned to PublicAffairs in 2010 as publicity director, and was appointed associate publisher in 2014, overseeing publicity and marketing for such titles as Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning, Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map, and Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. She most recently served as associate publisher for Basic Books, Seal Press, PublicAffairs, and Bold Type Books

Columbia Global Reports, a nonfiction paperback imprint housed at Columbia University, has published such titles as The Populist Explosion by John Judis, The Revolt Against Humanity by Adam Kirsch, Saudi America by Bethany McLean, Ghosting the News by Margaret Sullivan, and The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu.