22 Facts About Norman Pearlstine

Norman Pearlstine was born on October 4,1942 and is an American editor and media executive.

Norman Pearlstine's mother was chairman of Montgomery County Community College and his father was an attorney.

Norman Pearlstine has two sisters: one of whom is literary agent Maggie Pearlstine Hattersley.

Norman Pearlstine graduated from The Hill School and then received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Haverford College.

Norman Pearlstine obtained a JD from the University of Pennsylvania and did postgraduate work at the law school of Southern Methodist University.

Norman Pearlstine was interim president of the New-York Historical Society from 1992 to 1994.

Norman Pearlstine was editor in chief of Time Inc between January 1,1995, and December 31,2005.

Norman Pearlstine was a senior adviser to the Carlyle Group's telecommunications and media group in New York.

In that role Norman Pearlstine was 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.

In October 2013, Norman Pearlstine returned to Time Inc as chief content officer, a position similar to the one he held at Bloomberg.

On June 18,2018, Norman Pearlstine was named executive editor of the Los Angeles Times by owner Patrick Soon-Shiong.

In October 2020, Norman Pearlstine stepped down from his post at the Times.

Norman Pearlstine was honored with the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in 2000.

Norman Pearlstine received the National Press Foundation's Editor of the Year Award in 1989.

Norman Pearlstine is expected to receive 2019 Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism from the Poynter Institute during their annual Bowtie Ball on November 2,2019.

Norman Pearlstine is on the boards of the Tribeca Film Institute and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

Norman Pearlstine is a member of the advisory board of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and is co-chairman of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Norman Pearlstine was on the boards of the Carnegie Corporation, and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Norman Pearlstine is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

From 2006 to 2011, Norman Pearlstine was president and CEO of the American Academy in Berlin.

Norman Pearlstine was briefly part of the controversy surrounding Matthew Cooper when, after the United States Supreme Court refused to review adverse lower court decisions, he gave Cooper's notes to the independent prosecutor investigating the outing of Valerie Plame as a covert agent of the CIA.

From this experience, Norman Pearlstine wrote a book entitled Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources for Farrar, Straus and Giroux.