Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan will tell the story of her journalism career in a new memoir titled Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) From an Ink-Stained Life.

Sullivan made the announcement on Twitter, writing, “I’m thrilled that my memoir/manifesto will be published by @StMartinsPress this fall!…A third of the book tells of my ever-so-fun stint as @nytimes public editor.”

Sullivan began her journalistic career at the Buffalo News, eventually becoming the newspaper’s first woman editor. In 2012, she moved to the New York Times as its public editor, which the newspaper called its ombudsman, before eliminating the position.

In a 2020 interview with the Times, Sullivan reflected on her years as public editor, saying, “I approached it as a service that I wanted to do as well as I could.…I tried to keep in mind that the people I was really working for were the readers of the Times, so that it wasn’t about making people within the institution happy.”

Sullivan is the author of a previous book, Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy, published in 2020. A critic for Kirkus called it a“no-nonsense retort to the notion that we live in a time of abundant information.”

Publisher St. Martin’s says that Sullivan’s memoir “traces her life in journalism and how trust in the mainstream press has steadily eroded.”

“With her celebrated mixture of charm, sharp-eyed observation, and nuanced criticism, Sullivan takes us behind the scenes of the nation’s most influential news outlets to explore how Americans lost trust in the news and what it will take to regain it,” the publisher writes.

Newsroom Confidential is scheduled for publication on Oct. 18.

Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.