Jayson Blair gets six figures

The humiliated ex-journalist was turned down by New York publishers but struck a deal with New Millennium, the Beverly Hills publishing house run by Michael Viner and Daborah Raffin, says Keith J. Kelly in the New York Post. The book is to be called "Burning Down My Master's House: My Life and the New York Times."

Update: Variety also has a story, with quotes from Blair. Publishers Lunch views it all this way: "It was pretty clear all along that Jayson Blair wouldn't be publishing anything of book length in this town, and now it's confirmed that his book...has landed at its logical home, LA's New Millennium Press." Earlier New Millennium items