Steven Waldman is President and co-founder of Report for America, a national service program that places talented emerging journalists into local newsrooms. He was earlier the author of the landmark FCC report on local media, “Information Needs of Communities.” Previously he was co-founder of Beliefnet.com and LifePosts.com, National Editor of US News & World Report, Washington correspondent for Newsweek, and editor of The Washington Monthly. He also authored the national bestseller Founding Faith.