James Steele (journalist)
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James B. Steele (1943-) has been one of the most important investigative journalists in the United States, winning along with collaborator Donald L. Barlett two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine Awards during their thirty five years of service at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Magazine, and now Vanity Fair. The prizes that they earned make them unique among all teams of investigative journalism.
Steele was born on January 3, 1943 in Hutchinson, Kansas and was raised in Kansas City, Missouri. After graduating the University of Missouri at Kansas City, he began his career at the Kansas City Times, where he covered politics, labor and urban affairs until moving to the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1970 where he would begin his famous collaboration with Donald Barlett.
In one of their earliest collaborations in 1972 for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Steele and Barlett pioneered the use of computers for the analysis of data on violent crimes. Twenty years later, they would be famous for their pessimistic book on America's Development called What Went Wrong? It would be named by the New York University School of Journalism as one of the 100 best pieces of journalism of the 20th century.
Barlett and Steele were recently hired by Vanity Fair to be contributing editors under the understanding that they would contribute two articles each year. They were available for this new assignment after Time Magazine determined that they had insufficient space for the time of long journalistic investigations for which Barlett and Steele are famous.
James B. Steele is married and has a daughter.
