Publishing MA

The City MA in Publishing equips our graduates to compete for future roles in this stimulating, global and evolving industry.

Who is it for?

This MA is designed for aspiring professionals who recognise that the global publishing industry is changing dramatically - and who wish to equip themselves with the knowledge and skills needed by the next generation of publishers. Your first degree might be from the Humanities, the Social Sciences or the Sciences; and you might be a recent graduate or someone with work experience either in publishing or in another field.

Objectives:

Located in the heart of London, the commercial centre of this global industry, this MA explores how publishing is evolving in the face of digitisation.

The programme provides you with an applied understanding of how books, journals, magazines and interactive resources are conceived, developed and marketed, including the key role of authorship.

You will be encouraged to explore whether your interests lie in publishing for entertainment, education, research or information. Alongside research-led analytical assignments, you will develop a portfolio of achievements relating to the global industry which reflect the range of professional roles in contemporary publishing, including editorial, marketing, production, and both print and digital content development

Career prospects:

City’s Publishing graduates develop careers in a variety of organisations, with the majority of each class achieving a publishing role within months of graduating. The roles of a recent class show the range of possible careers in global publishing, include:

• Trainee, Foreign Language Publishing Co, Shanghai;
• Rights Assistant, Literary Agency
• Editorial, Production Assistant and Rights Assistants, Children’s Publishing
• Contracts Assistant and International Sales Representative, Academic Publishing
• Business Reporter in a Chicago newspaper
• Marketing Assistant and Digital Marketing Executive, Bloomsbury
• Rights Assistant, Fiction, Paris
• Picture Researcher, Hodder
• Marketing, Random House
• Editorial Business Analyst, Condé Nast Japan
• Editorial Assistant and Marketing Assistant, Specialist and Academic Publishing
• PR and Literary Agent, Freelance
• Editor, Economics website
• Publicist, Hachette NZ
• Magazine Publishing, Beijing
• Production Assistant, ELT, Greece.