About Steve Fox

Steve first became involved with political campaigns in the early 1980s, when he covered Mo Udall’s congressional campaign while a student at the University of Arizona. He has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and reporter for print and online publications, including 10 as an editor at washingtonpost.com. At The Post’s Web site, he took over as the political editor the morning after the 2000 election — guiding coverage of the post-election debacle. He attended the Republican national convention in 2000 and helped plan The Post’s 2002 and 2004 election coverage.

Steve joined the journalism faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in August 2007 and has been working to incorporate multimedia across the curriculum. Since arriving at UMass, Steve has developed three courses modeled after his multimedia journalism course. The courses allow students to work in teams in a newsroom-like environment where they work on packages — using video, audio and photos to tell stories. He is also working with students on amherstwire.com, a news Web site staffed completely by students.

He began teaching part-time at the University of Maryland in 1998 and has spoken at a number of conferences on issues including Web journalism, blogging, ethics and political coverage.
Steve has consulted for several start-up Web site and also collaborated with Mark Briggs and Jan Shaffer in producing Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive — A Digital Literacy Guide for the The Information Age.