For more than two decades, Steven Beschloss has created award-winning content, as a writer, journalist, editor and filmmaker. Consistent in this work is a passion for writing and a belief in the power of story.
As a writer and journalist -- from the U.S. and Europe -- his writing on business and economics, international affairs and politics, and art and culture has been published in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Chicago Tribune, TV Guide, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, Parade Magazine and dozens of other outlets. He's been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, selected Journalist of the Year in Virginia, and honored with a magazine writing award by the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He is also the co-author of the recently released Adrift: Charting Our Course Back to a Great Nation (Prometheus Books) and a featured guest on MSNBC and Fox Business.
Between 2005 and 2008, Steven enhanced his editorial experience as a Managing Executive Editor for The Ritz-Carlton Magazine, with a particular focus on international travel, art and architecture. He created the concept and served as the founding editor of 6 magazine, an experiential travel and luxury lifestyle publication. Working as an editorial manager for a leading custom media firm, he co-managed a staff of 32 editors and art directors producing more than a dozen magazine titles.
Since the mid-'90s, Steven expanded his storytelling skills to film and video. Taking on various roles as a scriptwriter, producer and director, he has made documentary and fiction films for European television, including The Miracle, shot in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the French-German ARTE channel and first screened at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. In 2003, he co-wrote and co-produced Paris, a noir thriller shot in L.A. and Las Vegas that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was acquired by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, sold to more than 20 countries, and aired for nearly two years on the Showtime movie channels.
In addition, Steven has worked with leading brands and their partners to help shape their media profiles and tell their stories -- in print, online, in video -- as a writer, editorial manager and story consultant. This has included high-end hotel brands such as The Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons and MGM Mirage, and other global enterprises such as The North Face, the RAND Corp. and Science Foundation Ireland.
A Chicago native and the father of two young daughters, Steven has lived and worked in New York, London, Helsinki, Moscow and Los Angeles (among other U.S. locales). He is a graduate of Haverford College, earned his master's degree at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and spent a year studying economic history in the graduate school of the London School of Economics.
(Resume and list of awards are available upon request.)
