Judith Regan: The GalleyCat Crib Sheet

By Neal 

Extracts from prior GalleyCat coverage relevant to Judith Regan‘s lawsuit against HarperCollins:

⇒ 10/20/06: rumors of OJ book first surface

⇒ 11/15/06: The ruumors are true! ReganBooks confirmed as publisher of If I Did It

⇒ 11/21/06: Welcome to the OJ schadenfreude,” as News Corp. pulls the plug on the project

⇒ 12/14/06: After PW establishes negative tone on coverage of Mickey Mantle novel, I dissent

⇒ 12/15/06: I discuss an interview taped for Regan’s satellite radio show, where she complains about people at HarperCollins feeding negative stories to the press about her; the segment never airs

⇒ 12/15/06: Later that day, Regan is fired

⇒ 12/18/06: After briefly blaming me for the ouster, the media runs with Harper’s “Regan’s an anti-Semite” whispering campaign

⇒ 12/21/06: Mezzuzah story finally makes NYT business section, days after appearing on Gawker; upon reflection, it doesn’t make any sense