Steven L. Herman is a journalist and author, and, ,

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's chief national correspondent. From 2017 through 2021, Herman was senior White House correspondent and subsequently VOA's White House bureau chief.

Career

Herman was one of the few journalists to spend time in the

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"hot zone" and visit the grounds of the crippled facility in April 2011. Herman served a term as Presidents of the

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(FCCJ) and the Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club. Herman served on the advisory board of th
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. Herman is the author of a pictorial book, ''Bhutan in Color 2007: A Himalayan Kingdom through the Lens of an American Journalist''. As part of the

December 2022 Twitter suspensions On December 15, 2022, Twitter suspended the accounts of ten journalists who have covered the company and its owner, Elon Musk. They included reporters Keith Olbermann, Steven L. Herman, and Donie O'Sullivan, as well as journalists from ''The New ...

, Herman's Twitter account was temporarily suspended. On Feb. 28, 2025, the U.S. Agency for Global Media announced that Herman was being placed on an extended “excused absence” due to an ongoing human resources investigation into whether his “social media activity has undermined V.O.A.’s audiences’ perceptions of the objectivity and/or credibility of V.O.A. and its news operations.” Enrich, David and Minho Ki
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American reporters and correspondents Living people 21st-century American journalists University of Nevada, Las Vegas alumni 1959 births Thomas Edison State University alumni Voice of America people {{US-radio-bio-stub