Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JOURNALISM

WALL STREET JOURNAL/ SMARTMONEY MAGAZINE 1980-1984; 2011-2015

Senior Special Writer – Banking and Financial Investigations

Hong Kong Correspondent                     

THE NEW YORK TIMES 1984-2003

Los Angeles National, Culture and Business Correspondent

Tokyo Bureau Chief

Lead Wall Street Reporter    

AUTHOR, EDITOR, STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS 2019-Present

  • City University of New York, Communications Planning

  • Ford Foundation, Writing Case Studies for Foundation History

  • Carnegie Corporation of New York, Written Communications

  • Book Collaborations and Editing

THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 2015-2018                  

Senior Advisor and Speechwriter for the Chancellor

Director of Marketing and Communications

BOOKS

Early Detection: Catching Cancer When It’s Curable, by Bruce Ratner and Adam Bonislawski, May 2024, OR Books, (Editor, James Sterngold).

The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant that Is Changing the World, by Brian A. Wong, PublicAffairs, Nov. 2022, (Editor, James Sterngold).

Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier, By Anish Batlaw and Ram Charan, Ideapress Books, Jan. 2022, (Ghost Writer, James Sterngold).

On The Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease and a Medical Revolution, by Paul A. Marks, President Emeritus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and James Sterngold, PublicAffairs, 2014.           

Burning Down the House: How Greed, Deceit and Bitter Revenge Destroyed E.F. Hutton, by James Sterngold, Simon and Schuster, 1990.

Selected “Notable Book of the Year,” by New York Times Book Review. 

AWARDS

2023 – Silver Medal from Axiom Business Book Awards

  • The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant that Is Changing the World  

2013 – PERSONAL SERVICE AWARD, Society of Professional Journalists

  • Mutual Funds’ Failing Watchdogs (SmartMoney Magazine) 

2010 – FINANCIAL MAGAZINE STORY OF THE YEAR AWARD, Foreign Press Association

  • The Man Who Found Dick Fuld’s $200 Million Stash (Bloomberg Businessweek)

2002 – PULITZER PRIZE, Shared, Public Service

  • Awarded to the staff of The New York Times for 9/11 Coverage – James Sterngold Bylined Article Cited in “Winning Works” 

1985 - 2002 – Eight-time Winner, The New York Times PUBLISHER’S AWARD

EDUCATION 

M.S.J.  Columbia University, New York, NY           

Graduate School of Journalism

B.A.    Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT           (Cum Laude)

Major: Independent Scholar (Philosophy of Social Science)