Bowker Biography:
Barbara Sternig

 

Barbara Sternig had an idyllic childhood, as one of eight children of a conservative elementary school principal in the leafy Chicago suburb of Glencoe, Illinois. Dad insisted that all of his brood be well educated and well behaved. Barbara complied, graduating with honors not only from Dad’s grade school, but also with a blue ribbon and second in her class from a strict Catholic girls’ boarding school.
Absolutely nothing in this background predicted Sternig’s future. But a fifth grade project - the production of a class magazine – gave Barbara her first clue that a life in journalism was much more exciting and was the life for her. She did her first celebrity interview at age 14, grilling her favorite Chicago rock and roll DJ, Wally Phillips of WGN Radio, for her high school paper.
After gaining her journalism degree, the slim brunette began her career at Chicago‘s great rock and roll radio station, WCFL, where she met and mingled with the music greats of her youth, and got thoroughly hooked on the fun of celebrities.
When her disk jockey boyfriend broke her heart, Sternig headed outa town as far away as she could go - which just happened to be Hollywood. Starting at all-news radio station KFWB, Barbara soon landed a new job - legwoman/ writer/ producer for pioneering TV Gossip Queen Rona Barrett. Here she not only wrote Rona’s syndicated Hollywood report which aired on some 60 television stations nationwide, but also ghosted Barrett’s byline fan magazine column every month, and into the bargain developed a precious bookful of important inside connections.
All this Sternig brought to the National Enquirer’s Hollywood bureau, and within days, proved her ability to deliver star interviews. For the next two decades, she brought to the paper her own style of getting the job done, ending up in the thick of endless celebrity mischief as a National Enquirer Senior Reporter.
Her bold antics in pursuit of front page news for the Enquirer earned Sternig the respect of her colleagues, many of whom were battle-scarred veterans of Fleet Street. She circled the globe several times while chasing the famous and infamous on assignment.
Since leaving the Enquirer, she has been a regular free-lance contributor to celebrity-oriented publications and shows; and has also pursued her affinity for world travel, including treks from Iceland to Africa to Arabia to the Amazon and beyond. She shared these and other travel experiences with listeners to L.A.’s KMPC-AM and KLSX-FM Radio, where she often guest-co-hosted a weekly travel and dining show. She teaches a course in celebrity reporting at a local Los Angeles college. Her second book of Hollywood adventures is in the works.
Sternig is divorced and lives in Los Angeles.

 

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