Biography steven waldman

American journalist

For other people named Steven Waldman, see Steven Waldman (disambiguation).

Steven Waldman is an American journalist. He is president and co-founder of Report for America—a national service program that deploys emerging journalists to local newsrooms. He is also the founder and president of Rebuild Local News, a nonpartisan nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to addressing the decline of local news and enhancing local democracy.

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 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 to 2007, leading it out of bankruptcy to a sale to News Corp.; he continued 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. He was assigned to "lead an open, fact-finding process to craft recommendations to meet the traditional goals of serving the public interest and making sure that all Americans receive the information, educational content, and news they seek." The position arose in response to the report of the Knight Commission on the

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Steven Waldman is co-founder, CEO, and editor in chief of Beliefnet.com, the largest faith and spirituality website. Previously, Waldman was the national editor of U.S. News & World Report and a national correspondent for Newsweek. His writings have also appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, The Washington Monthly, National Review, and elsewhere. He appears frequently on television and radio to discuss religion and politics. He is also the author of The Bill, a book about the creation of AmeriCorps. Waldman lives in New York with his wife, the writer Amy Cunningham, and their children, Joseph and Gordon.

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Steven D. Waldman is a pain management specialist, author and a pioneer in the specialty of interventional pain management. He holds an academic appointment as Professor of Anesthesiology at Kansas City University where he currently serves as Senior Vice Provost of Strategic Initiatives.

Background

Waldman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geosciences from the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and was one of the first 100 students to be admitted in 1973 to its new medical school, the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine. He was elected a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society and earned his MD in 1977. He completed his internship at Mayo Clinic in 1978 and did his residency in anesthesiology at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota where he also served as President of the Mayo Clinic Fellows Association.

Waldman received Masters in Business Administration In Healthcare Administration from City University in 1993 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1996.

Career

Waldman was one of the first pain management specialists in the region, founding pain clinics at numerous Kansas City area hospitals. Waldman is credited with coining the term interventional pain management to describe this new subspecialty of pain management that was focused on the use of interventional procedures to treat pain.

He holds joint academic appointments as Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine. He serves as the Inaugural Chairman of the Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics and a member of the Humanities Advisory Committee in the School of Medicine. He is a founding member of the Sirridge Office of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, helpi