Dana's book is out

Curt Chandler, former PD photographer, passed along this news about Dana Canady, former PD reporter.

N.Y. Times' Canedy Finishes Book, Wins Promotion

Dana Canedy, who had been an assistant national editor at the New York Times, has returned from book leave, where she wrote about her slain military fiancé,

Dana Canedy

and has become a senior editor at the paper, working on career development, staff training and diversity initiatives, she told Journal-isms.

Canedy is now a senior editor, succeeding Sheila Rule, who took a buyout from the paper in the spring.

"My book, a memoir entitled 'A Journal for Jordan,' will be on bookshelves on Dec. 30. The book has also been sold to publishers in Australia, Italy, Brazil and the Netherlands, with more countries expected to be added soon. We have a draft of the script for the movie and I am working with Denzel [Washington] and the screenwriter to develop it," she said.

The book, which grew out of a front-page piece Canedy wrote for the Times, is summarized this way by the publisher:

"In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. Charles King, forty-eight, was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an isolated road near Baghdad. His son, Jordan, was seven months old.

"'A Journal for Jordan' is a mother's letter to her son — fierce in its honesty " about the father he lost before he could even speak. It is also a father's advice and prayers for the son he will never know."

-- This update was swiped from the Journal-isms blog.

Curt Chandler
Penn State University
College of Communications
senior lecturer/multimedia
cwc11@psu.edu