About Steve Fox
Steve joined the journalism faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in August 2007 and in the past several years his Investigative Journalism & The Web class has analyzed several issues, including the death of UMass student Katie Sherman; the bullying and subsequent suicide of South Hadley High teen Phoebe Prince; and the aftermath of the Spring 2011 tornadoes in Western Massachusetts.
The course allow students to work in teams in a newsroom-like environment where they work on packages — using video, audio and photos to tell stories. Steve’s class has previously partnered with MassLive and The Springfield Republican and is currently working with Boston.com and The Boston Globe.
Steve has more than 25 years of experience as an editor and reporter for print and online publications, including 10 as an editor at washingtonpost.com, where he worked on a number of investigative projects with Post reporters and editors.
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.
