If you’re reading our sister blog, FishbowlNY, you’ve already seen Rachel’s post about Norm Pearlstine’s book deal. As reported in Publishers Lunch, Nan A. Talese picked up Off the Record: The Use and Misuse of Anonymous Sources, in which the Time, Inc., editor in chief is sure to give a detailed account of his role in keeping reporter Matt Cooper out of jail–or, as Rachel puts it, the “re-positioning [of] himself from onetime sellout of journalistic integrity to thoughtful authority on the vagaries of anonymous sourcing.”
And if you’re not reading FishbowlNY, you might want to start, because I can’t always be passing these notes along. For one thing, I’m supposed to be digging up my own stories! UPDATE: Or at least spotting them on sites like the Huffington Post, where Arianna is using anonymous sources to report that Judith Miller scored a $1.2 million deal from Alice Mayhew at Simon & Schuster. At this rate, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s going to land a book deal before Matt Cooper…