James Langford
James Langford is the digital media director for Lawdragon, where he helped create Campus’s searchable database and ratings system. With two decades of experience in electronic and print media, specializing in legal affairs and finance, James has won awards for investigative coverage of law enforcement and child welfare. Memorable moments in his career include walking underneath NASA’s shuttle Discovery as it prepared for a mission at Kennedy Space Center and interviewing R&B singer James Brown.
Prior to joining Lawdragon, James was the deputy editor for Americas Industry/Aerospace coverage at Bloomberg News, where he led reporters covering defense contractors, airlines and multi-industry conglomerates like General Electric. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and marketing from the University of South Carolina-Aiken, and his first reporting job was at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, where he occasionally wrote about the Master’s Tournament but never actually set foot on the Augusta National’s grounds.