Steven Waldman
Journalist
Steven Waldman is President and Co-Founder of Report for America, a national service program that places emerging journalists into local newsrooms. Previously, he was Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, serving out of the Office of Strategic Planning.
After college, Waldman was a political journalist. In 1986-87, he served as editor of The Washington Monthly. He was the National Editor of U.S. News and World Report, and worked for eight years in Newsweek’s Washington bureau as a national correspondent writing cover stories on social issues. Waldman co-founded Beliefnet in 1999. He was its CEO from 2002–2007, leading it out of bankruptcy to a sale to News Corp., and he continued on as editor-in-chief until November 2009. In late 2009, he became a Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, serving out of the Office of Strategic Planning. The position arose in response to the report of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy and other studies that called on the FCC for “new thinking” to “ensure the information opportunities of America’s people and the information vitality of our democracy.”
Waldman is also a speaker on topics relating to the spiritual marketplace, the changing roles of religion in America, and the convergence of spirituality and marketing. In 2000, he was named by TIME Magazine as an “innovator” in its “100: The Next Wave” feature. He has been a speaker at The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, “The Resurgence of Religion in Politics” series at The Carnegie Council, The Renaissance Weekend, and numerous religious, policy and media conferences.
Waldman spoke about The Role of Religion in the 2008 Campaign at The Common Good alongside Jon Meacham and Amy Sullivan, moderated by Paul Glastris and introduced by Richard Feigen.
Twitter: @stevenwaldman
