Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AUTHOR, EDITOR, STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS

  • City University of New York, Communications Planning

  • Ford Foundation, Writing Case Studies for Foundation History

  • Carnegie Corporation of New York, Written Communications

  • Wallace Foundation, Written Communications

  • Book Collaborations

PACE UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK                                               

Vice President For University Relations, Overseeing Communications and Marketing, Media Relations

THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK                    

Senior Advisor and Speechwriter for the Chancellor

Director of Marketing and Communications

JOURNALISM                                                           

WALL STREET JOURNAL/ SMARTMONEY MAGAZINE   

Senior Special Writer – Banking and Financial Investigations

Hong Kong Correspondent                     

THE NEW YORK TIMES                                                           

Los Angeles National, Culture and Business Correspondent

Tokyo Bureau Chief

Lead Wall Street Reporter    

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

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, (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. 

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)