James Andrew Miller is an award-winning journalist, media consultant, and author of five best-selling books -- Live From New York, An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live; Those Guys Have All the Fun, Inside the World of ESPN; Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers; Powerhouse, The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency, and Running in Place: Inside the Senate. 

Since 2018, he has also been the host of the critically acclaimed podcast Origins with James Andrew Miller 

Jim got his start as a member of the Television Reporting Team at The Washington Post before becoming Special Assistant and Chief Speechwriter to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. He went on to work both in news – as a producer for CBS News in Washington, D.C. and the Senior Executive Producer of Anderson Cooper 360 -- and in show business where he served as Vice President of Norman Lear’s ACT III Communications and later, Executive Vice President of Original Programming for USA Network. 

He has written for the op-ed pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times, as well as writing a three part investigative series for The New York Times, articles for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Vanity Fair, Grantland, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Salon, The Harvard Journal on Legislation, and others. He was also a Contributing Editor for The Hollywood Reporter. 

Jim received his bachelor’s degree in political science and economics at Occidental College; an M. Litt. from Oxford University, and an MBA from Harvard University, all with honors.