Steven Waldman

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. He authored the report "Information Needs of Communities". Waldman had earlier served as editor-in-chief, president, and co-founder of Beliefnet, a multi-faith spirituality website. Biography Waldman is a 1984 graduate of Columbia University, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator. 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 & World Report, and worked for eight years in Newsweeks Washington bureau as a national correspondent writing cover stories on social issues.