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Steve Herman is the chief national correspondent of the Voice of America. From early 2017 through August of 2021, Steve was senior White House correspondent and subsequently VOA’s White House bureau chief. He spent more than a quarter of a century in Asia, including years of reporting from Tokyo and subsequently as a VOA correspondent and bureau chief in India, South Korea and Thailand. Steve also served in 2016 as VOA’s senior diplomatic correspondent, based at the State Department. Earlier in his career, he worked for The Associated Press, including as state broadcast editor in West Virginia and in the wire service’s broadcast news center in Washington, DC.

Steve’s career has also included stints as a media executive in Asia, launching Discovery Channel and Animal Planet in Japan. A previous OPC board member, Steve is a former president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan and the Seoul FCC. He currently serves on the board of governors of the American Foreign Service Association and is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Press Club and the White House Correspondents’ Association.