James Daly

James Daly is Editor of TED Books. He is a veteran San Francisco Bay Area journalist and entrepreneur who has launched magazines for TED Curator Chris Anderson (Business 2.0) and filmmaker George Lucas (Edutopia), serving as Editor in Chief on both. Daly has also served as a Features Editor at Wired, where he was the lead editor on cover stories that helped gain the magazine the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, and was Senior Editor at Forbes ASAP, as well as a new media columnist for both Rolling Stone and the San Francisco Chronicle. He was Editor in Chief of Red Herring and Greatschools.org, and has written for a number of publications including the Los Angeles Times, Spin, and ID. He received his Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in Journalism and Economics from Boston University. He also has a degree from the New England School of Photography, and has done postgraduate work in economics and international relations at Harvard University. His projects have received more than two dozen editorial awards and been featured in "Magazine Designs That Work"(Rockport Publishing). He is the co-author of “2030: A Day in The Life of Tomorrow’s Kids” (Dutton), a book created for school children designed to get them excited about the world they will inhabit (and help create) as adults. He is also the owner of 2030 Media, a content-creation firm in Northern California.