Steven Beardsley is a journalist with more than 15 years’ experience covering international business, politics and security for print and television. Currently based in Berlin, Germany, he is a reporter and presenter at Deutsche Welle.
Steven’s work has taken him across Europe and into Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. He previously worked for the American newspaper Stars and Stripes, where he covered US and NATO deployments from bureaus in southern Germany and Naples, Italy, as well as from the field.
He’s originally from the US state of Georgia, where he attended the University of Georgia and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Steven was a member of the 2016 class of the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship. He began his career at the Naples Daily News in Florida, where he covered crime and courts.