Stephen Buckley

Public Editor, The Dallas Morning News

Stephen Buckley has been The Dallas Morning News’ public editor since April 2024.

A veteran editor and educator who worked at The Washington Post, Tampa Bay Times and the
Poynter Institute, Stephen is a faculty member at Duke University’s Dewitt Wallace Center for
Media and Democracy, where he has taught journalism and public policy since 2021.

After graduating from Duke in 1989, Stephen spent 12 years at The Post as a local reporter and
foreign correspondent. He covered education, courts and the night police beat before joining the
international reporting staff, initially as the Post’s Africa Bureau Chief (based in Nairobi) and
then as the paper’s first correspondent based in Brazil.

He returned to St. Petersburg in 2001 as a national reporter for the Times before taking on
several leadership roles, ultimately becoming managing editor and then publisher of
tampabay.com, the paper’s website. He moved to the Poynter Institute in 2010 as dean of the
faculty.

In 2014, he moved back to Nairobi, where he taught at The Aga Khan University’s Graduate
School of Media and Communications before becoming the lead story editor for Global Press
Journal, an international news organization that focuses its reporting on undercovered regions.