Steven L Herman is the chief national correspondent for the Voice of America. From 2017 to 2021, Steve was senior White House correspondent and subsequently VOA's White House bureau chief.

Steve is the author of five books. His latest, Behind the White House Curtain: A Senior Journalist’s Story of Covering the President — and Why It Matters, is a 2024 release from Kent State University Press. Steve 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. Steve has been an adjunct associate professor at Shenandoah University and an adjunct lecturer in the journalism department at the University of Richmond. Currently, he is a Council on Foreign Relations Higher Education Ambassador. Steve was a JURIST Journalist in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and a Kiplinger Fellow at Ohio University

Steve is on the board of governors of the National Press Club and is a former president and life member of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. He also served as president of the Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club and the Japan-America Club of The American University and is a former vice president of the DC chapter of AAJA. Steve was on the board of governors of the Overseas Press Club of America and the American Foreign Service Association.