Steven Malanga

Steve Malanga is a Contributing Editor of City Journal and
a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He writes about
the intersection of urban economies, business communities,
and public policy.

Prior to joining City Journal, Malanga was executive editor
of Crain’s New York Business for seven years, serving on
the publication’s editorial board and writing a weekly
column. He also supervised special projects, including
investigative stories. Before that, Malanga served for
seven years as managing editor of Crain’s. During his
tenure at the publication it twice won the General
Excellence award from the Association of Area Business
Publications (AABP).

In 1995, Malanga was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award for
Excellence in Financial Journalism for the
series “Nonprofits: New York’s new Tammany Hall,” which he
co-authored. In 1998, a series he co-authored, “Tort-ured
State,” about the influence of trial lawyers in New York
State, was voted best investigative story of the year by
the AABP. The previous year, a computer-assisted project
that Steve designed, reported, and wrote on Small Business
Administration loans in New York City was voted one of the
year’s best investigative stories by AABP. Malanga has also
written articles on various topics for The Wall Street
Journal, New York Daily News, New York Post, and other
publications. Malanga is the author of The New New Left
(Ivan R. Dee, 2005).

Malanga holds an M.A. in English Literature and Language
from the University of Maryland, where he worked for
several years as a Master Teacher helping to oversee the
university’s writing program. He received his B.A. in
English Literature and Language from St. Vincent’s College
in Latrobe, PA.

Steven Malanga was born and raised in Newark, NJ.