Columbia Global Reports (CGR) is a publishing imprint founded in 2015 by

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

and led by

Nicholas Lemann Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is an American writer and academic, the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has be ...

, the emeritus dean of Columbia's journalism school. Created as part of a wider globalization initiative, it is affiliated with Columbia's Committee on Global Thought. The project was announced in February, 2014. Lemann started the ramp up to production that June by hiring veteran book publicist Camille McDuffie and former ''

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'' editor Jimmy So. Branding and design were done by Strick and Williams, who designed the logo so that "circles evolve through three stages of rotation, referencing the ever-changing nature of our planet." The first book published by CGR was ''Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants'', whose author Bethany McLean had previously written the 2003 expose of

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''. The ''Washington Post'' selected ''Shaky Ground'' as one of the best nonfiction books of 2015. Other notable authors with books published by CGR include

Helen Epstein Helen Epstein is an American writer of memoir, journalism and biography who lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States. Biography Early life and education Helen Epstein is the daughter of Kurt Epstein and Franci Rabinek, both survivors o ...

Adam Kirsch Adam Kirsch (born 1976) is an American poet and literary critic. He is on the seminar faculty of Columbia University's Center for American Studies, and has taught at YIVO. Life and career Kirsch was born in Los Angeles in 1976. He is the son of ...

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, and

Tim Wu Timothy "Tim" Shiou-Ming Wu (born 1972) is a Taiwanese American legal scholar and official in the Biden Administration tasked with Technology and Competition policy. He was also a professor of law at Columbia University and a contributing opini ...

.Columbia Global Reports: Books
/ref> Its mission is to produce "four to six ambitious works of journalism and analysis a year" on global issues, with each novella-length book available as paperback or e-book. The ''

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'' describes CGR's business model as "somewhere between a magazine and book publisher," saying, "Unlike most traditional book publishers (but like high-end magazines), Columbia Global Reports fact checks, pays writers’ expenses, and has a total production time, from signed contract to store shelves, that’s measured in months, not years." CGR has experimented with social media, including hosting a podcast by Nicholas Lemann and participating in Instagram. In 2018, CGR was a finalist in the Shorty Awards for "Social Good," in the category of "News and Media." According to

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, CGR gets most of its income from consumer sales (its books are distributed by

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) but would not break even without support from Columbia and from foundations.

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