Toby Sterling
Hemonystraat 46
1074BS Amsterdam
Netherlands
 work phone: +31 20 623 5057
private email lbsterling at ye hotmail dot com
or professional
tsterling at ye ap dot org

Work Experience

Aug. 2003-Present:

General Assignment Reporter, Associated Press, Amsterdam bureau. Duties include writing news and features on the general news beat in the Netherlands, including wide-ranging subjects from terrorism and war crimes to sports, liberal Dutch social policies, and business and technology news.

Jan. 1999-Aug. 2003:

Technology beat reporter, Dow Jones Newswires, Amsterdam bureau. Duties included covering Dutch telecommunications and technology companies, notably Philips Electronics, semiconductor equipment supplier ASML, KPN telecom, UPC (a unit of John Malone's Liberty Media), Endemol (creator of "Big Brother") and others.

Previous to joining Dow Jones:

Brief jobs with AFX (now Thomson/Reuters), also in Amsterdam, The Lompoc Record, a small city newspaper on California's central coast. Unremarkable internships and freelancing gigs at: The Daily Californian (Berkeley school paper), The San Francisco Independent, and the Paris Free Voice.

Education

University of California, Berkeley,CA: Completed the first year of a two year's master's program in journalism in 1998 before jumping directly into the job market. I had good grades.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: One-year post-baccalaureate program in Classics (i.e., Latin and Greek, ancient history).

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA: Graduated with History major in June 1994. 3.5 GPA.

Intercollegate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Italy (Stanford University): completed semester program in Archaeology and classical languages, Fall '92 semester.

Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto, CA: Graduated May 1990.

About Me

From a young age I wanted to be a writer, and journalism has become my outlet for living that dream. I grew up in Palo Alto, CA, where my main extracurricular activity was raising hell. But I was also very involved in theater, played chess, soccer (football!)  and, embrace it: became an Eagle Boy Scout. I mellowed with age and was an extremely diligent student at Swarthmore.  My motto: "I work like 10,000 devils." During and after college my most noteworthy non-journalism jobs were as a test-prep teacher for Kaplan, in Paris and Berkeley, and as a carpenter, building stage scenery at the Palo Alto Children's Theater. My move to Amsterdam began as a lark, but 8 years later and I take responsibility for half a house (with 2.5 renters), a wife, and most recently, a son. Free time is a distant memory. The few glorious moments I can, I like to go for beers with my friends, and when I can't sleep, I surf the web or play guitar.