Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the news of the National Security Agency’s extensive spying, has a book deal. He’s writing a book about government surveillance, which will be published in March. (The Hollywood Reporter)
The American Journalism Review, whose editor recently left for USA Today, is killing its print edition. (AJR)
After a number of newsroom layoffs, The New York Post is doing less original and investigative journalism. (The Daily Beast)
The Washington Post Company just bought a company that supplies industrial boilers, because demand for industrial boilers is more stable than demand for good journalism. (Wall Street Journal)
A freelance journalist who wrote a New York Times profile of Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher says that he is the father of one of her children, according to the Post. Mr. Gallagher denies this and wants to sue the Post for defamation. (Post/Guardian)