James B. Steele Biography
James B. Steele is an American investigative journalist and author who worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Time Magazine over his 35-year career.
He was noted for winning two Pulitzers and two National Magazine Awards as well. James B. Steele was born in Hutchinson, Kansas and was raised in Kansas City, Missouri. In a 1972 collaboration for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Steele and Barlett pioneered the use of computers for the analysis of data on violent crimes. Their story, “Auditing the IRS,” earned them a Gerald Loeb Special Award in 1975.
Twenty years later, they co-authored the series America: What Went Wrong? for The Inquirer, which was named as one of the 100 best pieces of journalism of the 20th century by the New York University School of Journalism. Rewritten into book form, America: What Went Wrong? became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. It is one of seven books Steele and Barlett have published. In 1989, James B. and Barlett won the Pulitzer Prize and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for their reporting on the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
Barlett and Steele left The Philadelphia Inquirer to become editor-at-large at Time Inc. in 1997. While at Time, they won two National Magazine Awards, the first in 1999 for their three-part series, “What Corporate Welfare Costs You,” and the second in 2001 for their three-part series in 2000 on campaign finance.
In 2007, Barlett and B. Steele were featured in the PBS documentary series, Exposé: America’s Investigative Reports, in an episode entitled “Friends In High Places.” In January 2017, it was reported that CNN, as part of “a major new initiative in investigative reporting,” was hiring Steele along with fellow Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Bernstein as contributing editors, “to advise the team on their work and executives on hiring.
James B. Steele Age
James B. Steele was born on 3rd January 1943 in Hutchinson, Kansas in the United States. He is 76 years old. James B. Steele’s zodiac sign is Capricorn. Brown, Steel, Grey, and Black are James B. Steele’s lucky colors.
James B. Steele Family
He was born in Hutchinson, Kansas and was raised in Kansas City, Missouri. Steele is married to his wife Nancy and has a daughter. His sister Lisa Steele is a video artist living in Canada.
James B. Steele Education
He graduated from the University of Missouri–Kansas City and began his career at the Kansas City Times, where he covered politics, labor, and urban affairs. In 1970 he joined The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he would begin his collaboration with Barlett.
James B. Steel Vanity Fair
In 2006 Barlett and James left Time and were hired by Vanity Fair to be contributing editors on the understanding that they would contribute two articles each year. They were available for this new assignment after Time determined that they had insufficient space for the time of long journalistic investigations.
James B. Steele Books
- (1979). Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes. W.W. Norton & Company.
- (1985). Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America. W.W. Norton & Company.
- (1992). America: What Went Wrong?. Andrews and McMeel.
- (1994). America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?. Simon & Schuster.
- (1996). America: Who Stole the Dream?. Andrews and McMeel.
- (2000). The Great American Tax Dodge: How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax and Costing You. Little, Brown and Company.
- (2004). Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business — and Bad Medicine. Doubleday.
James B. Steele And Donald L. Barlett
They worked together for more than four decades. First at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where they won two Pulitzer Prizes and scores of other national journalism awards. Then at Time magazine. They earned two National Magazine Awards, becoming the first journalists in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper work and its magazine equivalent for magazine reporting. And later at Vanity Fair as contributing editors. They also have written eight books.
James B. Steele Net Worth
James B. Steele has an estimated net worth of $2147483647 in 2019, according to the users of vipfaq. The estimated net worth includes stocks, properties, and luxury goods such as yachts and private airplanes.
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