Life at the Top
Ruminating with Norman Pearlstine on the crisis in local news and his career atop four major legacy news organizations
I first met Norman Pearlstine, now 80, when I was covering media for Newsweek and Norm was amid a legendary run in charge of The Wall Street Journal. Ben Bradlee was nearing the end of his storied career editing The Washington Post and Abe Rosenthal was a tyrant at The New York Times. That left Norm as the most dynamic newspaper editor in American journ…