Steve Fox is a senior lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Steve has been a professional journalist for more than 30 years, including 10 at The Washington Post’s website, and has taught at UMass for the past 11 years. He revived the department’s Opinion Writing class over the past several years and writes regular columns for several journalistic outlets, including the Daily Hampshire Gazette and The Poynter Institute.

At The Post, he was part of news teams that won numerous awards, including the Online News Association's award for Most Creative Use of the Medium in 2004 and the EPPY award for Best Internet News Service in 2004. For 15 months, he was the liaison between the print newsroom and the Web newsroom. During that time he facilitated training of print editors and reporters in everything from shooting video to taking part in online chats to understanding the ebb and flow of the online newsroom.