James Goldston (born 19 June 1968) is a British-American journalist, media executive, and former president of ABC News. In 2023, he joined Candle Media as head of its new nonfiction and documentary projects production studio.

Goldston grew up in Heston, a suburb of Hounslow, West London. His mother Jill Goldston was a professional movie and TV extra. Anthony Ing a directed a 2022 short documentary about her career titled Jill, Uncredited. It was constructed from excerpted clips ranging from films including The Elephant Man and Mr. Bean. He recalls as a child being taken to a shooting for a James Bond film, in which he made an appearance.

Goldston was the first in his family to go to university, where he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Jesus College, Oxford.

He then attended the Cardiff School of Journalism where he was trained by academics including British newspaper editor David English, graduating in 1991 with a PgDip Journalism qualification.

He began his career during work experience at the Richmond and Twickenham Times, followed by roles at The Surrey Herald and Legal Business.

His first job in broadcast journalism was at the BBC where he began on programmes including The Money Programme, Newsnight and Panorama. Goldston worked as an international correspondent for the BBC, and was responsible for reporting at the time of the end of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, during the start of the war in Kosovo, and on the Clinton Impeachment.

In 1999 he moved to commercial broadcaster ITV and helped launch the flagship current affairs programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald. He became the programme's executive producer in 2002 and remained there until 2004. The show became "Britain’s most watched current affairs program."

Goldston secured significant interviews while at Tonight, including: