Steve joined WTOP News at the beginning of 2026 as an anchor and reporter.

His radio career started when he was in high school working at a community station in Westchester County N.Y. From there it was college radio at Pitzer College in Southern California and summer jobs and internships anywhere and everywhere with a soundboard.

Following college and back east, Steve went to grad school at NYU where he learned a valuable lesson: He much preferred making radio shows to studying them. So, back to the studio it was!

An innovator in technology, Steve pushed the bounds of traditional media for radio. He was a producer for the first talk radio network on the internet before moving to the Washington area in 2001 to be on the team that launched XM Satellite Radio. At XM Steve worked as a producer and program director managing various news and talk radio channels and winning a New York Festivals award for talk radio programming.

After XM, Steve continued to demonstrate the transformative power of radio, this time to a worldwide audience. At the Voice of America, Steve trained journalists from around the world on new broadcasting software, and helped them use their voice to make a difference in the world. Eventually the opportunity came and he was back behind the microphone on VOA, he was a newscaster and host of daily news programs heard the world over.
Steve lives in Montgomery County with his family and when he’s not in a newsroom he can often be found in area thrift stores looking for vinyl records.