Join the University Sunrise Rotary Club for a program featuring journalist, writer, teacher and podcaster Steve Scher.
The program will be presented in-person and on Zoom on Thursday morning informally beginning at 7 a.m. The formal meeting including the program runs from 7:30-8:30 a.m. No registration is required, and the program is free.
The in-person meeting will be at the Wedgwood Community Church at 8201 30th Ave NE, Seattle.
The meeting will also be available via Zoom. You can click here to join the Zoom meeting.
Steve Scher is a journalist, writer, teacher and podcaster. (and gardener. Lately mostly a gardener)
Over his long journalism career in public radio, Steve Scher received accolades and awards for his incisive news coverage and his beyond-the-headlines approach to issues. His in-depth interviews on his daily program, “Weekday,” were lauded in national publications for their intelligence and sensitivity.
Over the last ten years, Steve Scher has continued his journalism career as a freelancer. He interviewed visiting authors, artists and celebrities as Senior Correspondent of the Town Hall Seattle podcast, “In the Moment.” He was a regular contributor to Seattle Magazine, a news commentator on NWCN and the “Final Words” columnist for the Mountaineers magazine. He also worked with students and adults to bring diverse voices to podcast audiences interested in equal justice, cultural reconciliation and political change through the local non-profits, Project Pilgrimage and Common Power.
Steve Scher has taught interviewing at University of Washington since 2009. He has helped students develop storytelling skills grounded in creativity, clarity, rigorous fact-checking and empathy. He has also taught Radio News writing at Bellevue College and Audio Storytelling/ Podcasting at the UW.
Steve left KUOW in 2014 to write fiction. He has three completed novels- in his desk drawer. Maybe the fourth time will charm some publisher.
Steve Scher’s first children’s book, “The Moon Bear,” with illustrations by Sarah Waller, was published in 2022.