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NYT tech writer Bilton to pen book about Twitter

Nick Bilton, who covers technology for the New York Times, has signed a contract to write a book about Twitter, reports Om Malik.

Malik writes, “Word on the street is that Nick Bilton, the technology columnist at The New York Times, has just agreed to a deal with Penguin Portfolio for a book about Twitter. The book is slated for publication by the end of 2013. His first book, titled I live in the future and here’s how it works, was published by Crown Publishing.

“Bilton, who previously worked as a researcher in The Times’ R&D Labs, currently writes the Disruptions column and covers companies such as Twitter and Square for his paper. So he’s very familiar with co-founders Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams and other members of the Twitter braintrust.

“While the book doesn’t have a name yet, the pitch is that the book will use Twitter’s story to talk about the post-social revolution in Silicon Valley and how it has impacted the tech industry. Bilton is not responding to my messages. Maybe he is worried that I am going to ask him about the big “six figure” advance he is supposed to have received.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.