Steven Beardsley
December 26, 2022Advertisement
Born in:
Athens, Georgia (USA)
Languages:
English and German
Degrees/Journalistic experience:
BA in Comparative Literature, MS in Journalism. I began at a weekly newspaper in Georgia (USA) before attending graduate school at Columbia University in New York. I covered cops and courts for the Naples Daily News (Fla.) and later moved overseas to report on the US military for the daily Stars and Stripes, working as a correspondent in Southern Germany and then Naples, Italy. I've reported from Haiti, Afghanistan and Kosovo, as well as much of Europe.
With DW since:
2017
Favorite quote:
"I loafe and invite my soul" -- Walt Whitman
My personal hero:
My father