Norman Pearlstine is an American journalist and media executive who was Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal, an Executive Editor of Forbes, Editor in Chief and then Chief Content Officer of Time Inc., Chief Content Officer of Bloomberg L.P., and Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Times. He now serves on the board of Blue Ocean, a special purpose acquisition company; on the advisory boards of North Base Media in the U.S.; and Majarra, an Abu Dhabi company that translates technical and business publications into Arabic. In addition to Shorenstein, he serves on three nonprofit boards: the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP); the Center for Communication, Leadership and Policy (CCLP) at U.S.C. Annenberg; and The Alliance for Trust in Media. Norm is writing a book about The Pacific Century and is the author of OFF THE RECORD, The Press, the Government, and the over Anonymous Sources (2007, FSG).
