Norman Pearlstine

Norman Pearlstine (born October 4, 1942, in Philadelphia) joined Bloomberg L.P. in June 2008 as chief content officer, a newly-created position.^[1] In this role Pearlstine is charged with seeking growth opportunities for Bloomberg’s television, radio, magazine, and online products and to make the most of the company’s news operations.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Pearlstine was a Senior Advisor to the Carlyle Group's telecommunications and media group in New York.^[2] Before joining the private equity firm, Pearlstine had spent nearly four decades working as a reporter and editor. He was editor in chief of Time Inc., where he served between January 1, 1995,^[3] and December 31, 2005. At the end of his tenure, he was responsible for the content of Time Inc.'s 154 publications, including Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, In Style, Money, People, Real Simple, Sports Illustrated, and Time.^[3] Through 2006, he served as a senior advisor to Time Warner.

He is married to Jane Boon, an industrial engineer.^[4] Previously, he was married to the writer Nancy Friday from 1988 to 2005.

He graduated from The Hill School and then received an AB in History from Haverford College. He later obtained a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and later did post-graduate work at the law school of Southern Methodist University. Before joining Time Inc., he worked for the Wall Street Journal from 1968–1992, except for a two year period, 1978–1980, when he was an executive editor for Forbes magazine.. At the Journal, he served as a staff reporter in Dallas, Detroit and Los Angeles (1968–1973); Tokyo bureau chief (1973–1976); managing editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal (1976–1978); national editor (1980–1981); editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal/Europe (1982–1983); managing editor (1983–1991); and executive editor (1991–1992). After leaving the Wall Street Journal he launched SmartMoney, and was later the general partner of Friday Holdings L.P., a multimedia investment company, prior to succeeding Jason McManus as Editor-in-Chief at Time in 1995.

In January 2005, the American Society of Magazine Editors named Pearlstine the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted him into the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame.^[5] He was honored with the Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in 2000.^[6] He received the National Press Foundation’s Editor of the Year Award in 1989.

Pearlstine serves on the boards of the Carnegie Corporation,^[7] the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the Watson Institute for International Relations. He serves on the advisory board of the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, and he is co-chair of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at the USC Annenberg School of Communications. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2006 to 2011, Pearlstine served as President and CEO of the American Academy Berlin.^[8]

Pearlstine was briefly part of the controversy surrounding Matthew Cooper when he acted on a U.S. court subpoena to hand Cooper's notes to the independent prosecutor investigating the outing of Valerie Plame as a covert agent of the CIA.^[9] From this experience, Pearlstine wrote a book entitled Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It was published in hardcover in June 2007,^[10][11] and in soft cover in June 2008.

References

1. ^ Bloomberg Press Release
2. ^ Carlyle bio
3. ^ ^{a b} News Bios
4. ^ New York Times wedding announcement
5. ^ ASME Lifetime Achievement Award
6. ^ Loeb Lifetime Award Winners
7. ^ Carnegie appointment
8. ^ [1]
9. ^ Time.com page on the Cooper case
10. ^ Book description
11. ^ http://us.macmillan.com/offtherecord

External links

• http://www.normanpearlstine.com/

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