Writer • Editor • Strategic Communications
James Sterngold has spent more than 40 years as a journalist, author, communications and marketing strategist and speechwriter, bringing ideas to life with compelling, creative narratives. Jim worked as a correspondent at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, serving in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and New York, and was the Senior Advisor and speechwriter for the Chancellor of The City University of New York, where he also ran communications and marketing. He has produced numerous books as an author, collaborator and editor on subjects ranging from business leadership and finance to digital commerce and cancer treatment policy.
Jim has been honored with numerous awards for his daily articles and magazine writing. He shared in a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded to the staff of The New York Times for 9/11 coverage, with a bylined article cited by the jury as one of the Winning Works. City & State Magazine honored Jim as one of New York City’s 50 Over 50 Leaders.
Jim brings his authors’ ideas and experiences to life in close collaborations
and produces polished, memorable manuscripts.
“Since you began writing about television and the arts from California, your coverage of the beat has been terrific. There has been one rich piece after another, a wonderful feast for our culture-hungry readers. Last month, your explanation of the racial divide in the popularity of television programs was particularly smart and fresh. You broke new ground with this important piece. For all this great work you have won a Publisher's Award, your sixth.”
— Citation for The New York Times Publisher’s Award,
Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., Publisher.
Praise for Early Detection: Catching Cancer When It’s Curable, by Bruce Ratner and Adam Bonislawski, OR Books.
“My mother died from breast cancer when I was 11 and there is not a day that I don’t wish we had detected it sooner. This book is an engaging, informative and hugely important work that will save lives, especially if policy makers take up the authors’ plea to fund more early detection testing.”
— Ken Burns, Grammy and Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker.