James B. Steele
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James A. Steele is a Photo-journalist living in southern Indiana with his son Robert (10) He was born April 29 1970 to parents Richard and Anna Steele. Many of his collective works can be found on the web, he is a United Press Editor, and writes on many topics. He should not be confused with James B. Steele his cousin, who also pursued a career in Journalism. Much of his online content can be found at [1] or at [2]
James B. Steele (born January 3, 1943) is an American investigative journalist. With long with collaborator Donald L. Barlett he has won two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Magazine Awards and five George Polk Awards during their thirty five years of service at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Time, and Vanity Fair. The prizes that they earned make them unique among all teams of investigative journalism.[citation needed]
Steele was born in Hutchinson, Kansas and was raised in Kansas City, Missouri. After graduating the University of Missouri–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 collaboration with Barlett.
In a 1972 collaborations for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Steele and Barlett pioneered the use of computers for the analysis of data on violent crimes. [citation needed] Twenty years later, they co-authored America's Development called What Went Wrong?, which was named as one of the 100 best pieces of journalism of the 20th century by the New York University School of Journalism.
Barlett and Steele were hired by Vanity Fair to be contributing editors on the understanding that they would contribute two articles each year.[citation needed] They were available for this new assignment after Time determined that they had insufficient space for the time of long journalistic investigations.[citation needed]
Steele is married and has a daughter.
Books
Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes. W.W. Norton & Company. 1979. ISBN 0393000257. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America. W.W. Norton & Company. 1985. ISBN 0393019209. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
America: What Went Wrong?. Andrews and McMeel. 1992. ISBN 0836270010. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?. Simon & Schuster. 1994. ISBN 0671871579. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
America: Who Stole the Dream?. Andrews and McMeel. 1996. ISBN 0836213149. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
The Great American Tax Dodge: How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, And Costing You. Little, Brown and Company. 2000. ISBN 0316811351. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business — and Bad Medicine. Doubleday. 2004. ISBN 0385504543. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Magazine articles
Barlett, Donald L. (1998-11-09). "States at War". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (1998-11-09). "Corporate Welfare". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (1998-11-16). "Fantasy Islands". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (1998-11-23). "Sweet Deal". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (1998-11-23). "Paying a Price for Polluters". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (1998-11-30). "The Empire of the Pigs". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (1998-11-30). "Five Ways Out". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2000-02-07). "How the Little Guy Gets Crunched". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2000-02-07). "How to Become a Top Banana". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2000-05-15). "Soaked By Congress". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2000-09-25). "Throwing the Game". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2002-12-16). "Who Gets the Money?". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2002-12-16). "Wheel of Misfortune". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2002-12-23). "Playing the Political Slots". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2003-02-03). "The Really Unfair Tax". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2003-05-19). "The Oily Americans". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2003-05-19). "Iraq's Crude Awakening". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2003-07-21). "The U.S. is Running Out of Energy". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2003-10-13). "The Great Energy Scam". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2003-10-13). "Asleep at the Switch". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2004-02-02). "Why We Pay So Much for Drugs". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2004-02-02). "Has Your Life Become Too Much a Game of Chance?". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2004-09-20). "Who Left the Door Open?". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2005-10-23). "The Broken Promise". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (2005-10-31). "Where Pensions are Golden". Time. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Barlett, Donald L. (March 2007). "Washington's $8 Billion Shadow". Vanity Fair. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)