Guy Sterling

Guy Sterling (born September 23, 1948) is an American journalist, author and historian. He spent most of his 35-year newspaper career as a reporter with The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, primarily covering the courts and criminal justice matters, the Meadowlands Sports Complex and the New Jersey Mafia.

Background and early life Sterling was born in Orange Memorial Hospital in Orange, New Jersey, to father Robert Sterling Sr. and mother Florence M. O’Mara. Raised in Dunellen, New Jersey, he graduated from Dunellen High School. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (class of 1970) and a master's degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (class of 1972). He began his daily newspaper career in 1970 as a municipal government reporter with the Courier News in Plainfield, New Jersey, and ended it in Newark. Over the course of his career, Sterling routinely published as many as 200 bylined stories a year.

Author and independent researcher Sterling has authored two books: Elvis in Roanoke, published in 1977 when he was a reporter with The Roanoke Times & World-News (1975–78) in Roanoke, Virginia, and The Famous, the Familiar and the Forgotten: 350 Notable Newarkers in 2014. He updated the Newark book on its tenth anniversary with an online edition. In 2011 and 2012, he also wrote and produced a series of radio pieces on Newark's history for WBGO Jazz Radio 88.3 in Newark. They aired as a segment entitled "Guy Sterling's Newark" on the "WBGO Journal."