Awards & Winners

James Steele

Date of Birth 03-January-1943
Place of Birth Hutchinson
(Reno County, Kansas, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as James B. Steele
Profession Journalist, Author, Writer, Editor
James B. Steele is an American investigative journalist and author. With longtime 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 duo are frequently referred to as Barlett and Steele. Steele was born in Hutchinson, Kansas and was raised in Kansas City, Missouri. 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. In a 1972 collaboration for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Steele and Barlett pioneered the use of computers for the analysis of data on violent crimes. 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, he and Barlett won the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

Awards by James Steele

Check all the awards nominated and won by James Steele.

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
For their series \"America: What Went Wrong?\" which examined the public policy failures that have diminished the American middle class.

1989


Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
(For their 15-month investigation of "rifle shot" provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses.)

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
For their 15-month investigation of \"rifle shot\" provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a series that aroused such widespread public indignation that Congress subsequently rejected proposals giving special tax breaks to many politically connected individuals and businesses.

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
For their series \"Energy Anarchy.\"

1975


Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
(For their series 'Auditing the Internal Revenue Service,' which exposed the unequal application of Federal tax laws.)