Newhouse School of Communications
STEVE DAVIS
Steve Davis
Chair, NEW, Associate Professor
Newspaper_Online_Journalism
Office: Newhouse 3 Rm. 318D
Telephone: (315) 443-3371
Email: jsdavi02@syr.edu
Steve Davis has worked in newsrooms of all kinds and all sizes, as a manager, editor, writer and page designer. He was executive editor at the community newspaper in Chambersburg, Pa., for the six years prior to joining the Newhouse faculty in 1999. Before that he was national editor and then Washington editor at USA Today from 1985 to 1992, including one year as the lead editor directing the newspaper's coverage of the Persian Gulf War.
In the years prior to USA Today he worked in Jackson, Miss., and Rochester, N.Y., on the sports, local and national desks. He also spent a year in the mid-1980s working for Gannett Co. Inc. in Washington, D.C., on a research and development project to create some of the earliest prototypes for personalized, online news.
He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism with a bachelor's degree in 1977.