James B. Stewart

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James B. Stewart
Born
James Bennett Stewart

c. 1952 (age 72–73)
Quincy, Illinois
OccupationNon-fiction writer
Lawyer
Journalist
NationalityAmerican
Education
Period1983–present
Notable works Den of Thieves
Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism (1988)

James Bennett Stewart (born c. 1952) is an American lawyer, journalist, and author.

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Early life and education

Stewart was born in Quincy, Illinois. He graduated from DePauw University and Harvard Law School.

Career

He is a member of the Bar of New York, the Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, [1] Editor-at-Large of SmartMoney magazine, and author of Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff (2011). [2] He is a former associate at New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which he left in 1979 to become executive editor of The American Lawyer magazine. [3] He later joined The Wall Street Journal , where earned the 1987 Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline and/or Beat Writing. [4] He shared the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for his articles about the 1987 dramatic upheaval in the stock market and insider trading.Stewart became page one editor of The Wall Street Journal in 1988 and remained at the paper until 1992, when he left to help found SmartMoney . [3]

Stewart's book Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story Of A Doctor Who Got Away With Murder (1999), won the 2000 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category. DisneyWar (2005), his book on Michael Eisner's reign at Disney, won the Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book. [5] In 2007, he was ranked 21st on Out magazine's 50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America. [6] He is currently a contributor to The New Yorker and a columnist for The New York Times , which he joined in 2011. [3] Stewart also serves on the board of advisory trustees of his alma mater, DePauw University, and is past president of that board. [7]

Notable stories

Jeffrey Epstein

On August 12, 2019, Stewart reported on a conversation he had with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein reportedly told Stewart that he was advising Elon Musk and Tesla. Stewart was also told by Epstein that he had dirt on powerful people including personal details about their sexual activities and drug use. [8]

On July 31, 2019, Stewart along with Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg reported about Epstein's interest in Eugenics and how he wished to seed the human race by using his own DNA. He also reportedly wanted his head and penis frozen. [9] That same year Stewart and Emily Flitter partnered on a piece which provided more detail as to Epstein's relationship with Microsoft founder Bill Gates, which had started after Epstein had become a registered sex offender. [10]

Michael Milken

In the 1980s, Stewart reported heavily on Wall Street and specifically the illicit activities of junk bond king Michael Milken. According to Stewart he attempted to meet Milken at a conference at The Beverly Hilton but shortly after meeting him he was removed from the hotel by security. His reporting on Milken culminated in a book called Den of Thieves (1991), which recounted the criminal conduct of Wall Street arbitrager Ivan Boesky and Milken. [11] [12] [13]

Bibliography

Books

External videos
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Booknotes interview with Stewart on Den of Thieves, November 24, 1991, C-SPAN
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Presentation by Stewart on Blood Sport, April 17, 1996, C-SPAN
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Presentation by Stewart on Blood Sport, May 13, 1996, C-SPAN
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Interview with Stewart on Follow the Story, October 10, 1998, C-SPAN
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Presentation by Stewart on Blind Eye, September 17, 1999, C-SPAN
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Presentation by Stewart on Heart of a Soldier, February 22, 2003, C-SPAN
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Presentation by Stewart on DisneyWar, November 19, 2005, C-SPAN
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Presentation by Stewart on Deep State, October 10, 2019, C-SPAN

Essays and reporting

Awards

Stewart was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2002 in the area of Communications. [14]

In 1996 Stewart received an honorary doctorate from Quincy University.

Stewart has earned five Gerald Loeb Awards: the 1987 Deadline and/or Beat Writing award for "Coverage of Wall Street Insider Trading Scandal", [4] the 1988 Large Newspapers award for "Terrible Tuesday", [15] [16] [17] the 2006 Business Book award for "DisneyWar", [18] the 2016 Commentary award for "Inside the Boardroom", [19] and the 2019 Feature award for "'If Bobbie Talks, I'm Finished': How Les Moonves Tried to Silence an Accuser". [20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "James B. Stewart". indstate.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
  2. ↑ Stewart, James B. (April 19, 2011). Tangled Webs: How False Statements Are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff. Penguin Press. ISBN   978-1594202698.
  3. 1 2 3 "Times Hires James B. Stewart, Financial Writer". MediaDecoder. May 10, 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Times Wins Loeb Award". Los Angeles Times . May 1, 1987. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  5. ↑ "James B. Stewart: Gerald Loeb Award finalist". UCLA. Archived from the original on 2009-09-23.
  6. ↑ Oxfield, Jesse; Idov, Michael (March 4, 2007). "'Out' Ranks the Top 50 Gays; Anderson Is No. 2". New York Magazine. Archived from the original on June 6, 2007. Retrieved June 28, 2007.
  7. ↑ "Board of Trustees". DePauw University. Archived from the original on 2010-12-22.
  8. ↑ Stewart, James B. (2019-08-12). "The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  9. ↑ Stewart, James B.; Goldstein, Matthew; Silver-Greenberg, Jessica (2019-07-31). "Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  10. ↑ Flitter, Emily; Stewart, James B. (2019-10-12). "Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  11. ↑ "Interview with Stewart on Den of Thieves". Booknotes. November 24, 1991. Archived from the original on November 15, 2011.
  12. ↑ Roberts, Paul C. (1992-03-01). "Den of Thieves, by James B. Stewart". Commentary Magazine. Retrieved 2025-10-19.
  13. ↑ "Michael Milken : Planet Money". NPR. 2020-02-21. Retrieved 2025-10-19.
  14. ↑ "Laureates by Year - The Lincoln Academy of Illinois". The Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2016-03-18.
  15. ↑ "Times Writer Wins Loeb Award". Los Angeles Times . 10 May 1988. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  16. ↑ "James B. Stewart". The New Yorker . Retrieved February 4, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Historical Winners List". UCLA Anderson School of Management . Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  18. ↑ Lowe, Mary Ann (June 27, 2006). "2006 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management". UCLA . Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  19. ↑ Daillak, Jonathan (June 29, 2016). "UCLA Anderson School honors 2016 Gerald Loeb Award winners". UCLA . Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  20. ↑ Stewart, James B.; Abrams, Rachel; Gabler, Ellen (November 28, 2018). "'If Bobbie Talks, I'm Finished': How Les Moonves Tried to Silence an Accuser" (PDF). The New York Times . Retrieved October 2, 2019– via UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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