Summary: | Newspaper reporter James E. Causey was born on August 1, 1969, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Otha R. Causey and James D. Causey. Causey graduated from Marshall High School in Milwaukee in 1987. He received his B.A. degree in communications from Marquette University in 1992, and his M.B.A. from Cardinal Stritch University in Fox Point, Wisconsin, in 2002. Causey worked as a reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel from 1987 through 1995. He was then hired as a reporter, editor, and editorial writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where he also served as a night city editor. Causey became an editor in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's metro department in 1999. He was the president and treasurer for the Wisconsin Black Media Association. In 2008, Causey was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. That year, he was appointed to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's editorial board as an editorial writer on urban affairs.
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