Journalist/Author/Educator
Steven L Herman is a veteran news correspondent, whose positions in recent years included White House bureau chief and chief national correspondent of the Voice of America.
Steve spent more than a quarter of a century in Asia, including years of reporting from Tokyo and subsequently as a VOA correspondent and bureau chief in India, South Korea and Thailand. Steve also served in 2016 as VOA's Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, based at the State Department and traveling to numerous countries with Secretary of State John Kerry. He has now covered in the field three consecutive U.S. presidential elections.
Steve has been a Kiplinger Fellowship in Climate Change Reporting and was the 2022-23 JURIST Journalist in Residence (headquartered at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law). He is now on the board of directors of the award-winning non-profit JURIST news service, which is run by law students. Steve was a First Cohort of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. He is also a East West Center media alumnus.
Steve appears frequently on such networks and channels as the ABC (Australia), ABS-CBN News (Philippines), Arirang TV (South Korea), BBC, Buckmaster Show (KVOI Tucson), CBC, CBS, Channels TV (Nigeria), Citi FM (Ghana), CNN, Euronews, KBS Radio (Korea), Money FM 89.3 (Singapore), MSNBC, NBS (Uganda), Newzroom Afrika (South Africa), NewstalkZB (New Zealand), Radio New Zealand, RTHK Radio 3, tbs Efm (Seoul), Times Radio (UK), TRT World (Turkey), TVC News (Nigeria), TV Romania and numerous TV news channels in India, including CNBC TV18, CNN-News18, Doordarshan, India Ahead, India Today, NewsX, Republic TV, Times Now and World Is One News.
Steve's articles, columns and reviews have been published in numerous newspapers and magazines including the Far Eastern Economic Review, Foreign Service Journal, Harvard Summer Review, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Japan Quarterly, Japan Times, On the Air, Popular Communications, Proceedings (U.S. Naval Institute), Radio World, Shukan Bunshun, Shukan Gendai, South China Morning Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Steve has been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Richmond and an adjunct assistant professor of journalism at Shenandoah University. He has also given presentations on such subjects as geo-politics, broadcast journalism and news literacy at numerous universities, media organizations and other institutions, including in Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States. Recent guest lecture appearances have included classes at Claremont McKenna College, Fordham University, National Intelligence University, Ohio State University School of Communication, OLLI/George Mason University, Seattle Central College, University of Mary Washington and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
In addition to years of reporting for AP, including as the wire service's state broadcast editor in West Virginia, Steve's career has also included stints as a media executive in Asia, launching Discovery Channel and Animal Planet in Japan. He was an executive producer of the 2004 documentary 'The History of America's Secret Casinos.'
Steve is a life member of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, of which he was elected president for the 1997-98 term. He also served as president of the Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club and the Japan-America Club of The American University. Steve was previously on the board of governors of the Overseas Press Club of America. He served for eight years on the board of governors of the American Foreign Service Association and was vice president for broadcast of the DC chapter of Asian American Journalists Association. He is currently on the board of governors of the National Press Club and is also a member of the South Asian Journalists Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the White House Correspondents' Association.
A native of Cincinnati, Steve began his media career in Las Vegas before moving to Asia, and was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame.
