James Carberry

James F. Carberry retired in 2019 after a career in journalism and business. He was a Wall Street Journal reporter, an international newsletter writer and editor, and an editor for a global professional services firm. He was the owner of Carberry Communications (writingbusiness.com), a Portland, Oregon-based firm that provided writing and editing services to businesses and other clients. He now lives in Barcelona, Spain.

In ten years with the Journal, Carberry wrote a variety of articles for the newspaper's inside pages and feature stories for Page One. Among other stories, he wrote profiles of Mattel, Inc., a toy manufacturer, and the Singer Corporation, a diversified company best known for its sewing machines. Other stories included the search for the fabled Lost Dutchman's gold mine, Texas rustlers (of oil, not cattle), scams for peddling worthless land and a profile of Hoboken, New Jersey.

Carberry worked in Asia for two years as the Singapore-based correspondent for an international oil industry newsletter. His on-the-scene dispatches from China, Japan and other countries helped to establish the newsletter as an authoritative source of worldwide petroleum news. He also discovered the world's best brunch, at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore.

As director of editorial services for Ernst & Young's Real Estate Group, Carberry advised the Group on its marketing communications, edited a leading real estate newsletter produced by the Group, and wrote Web content, speeches, white papers, articles and reports for the firm's partners.

When he's not writing, Carberry spends time reading, bicycling and hiking and working as a volunteer in Portland's Neighborhood Emergency Team program.