STEVE DORSEY

CONSULTANT
Steve Dorsey is the Assistant Managing Editor for Presentation at the Detroit Free Press and a part-time design consultant.

He edited the Society for News Design's quarterly Design Journal for three-and-a-half years, and was a member of SND's competition committee for eleven years; he served as the contest coordinator for the 21st edition (published in fall 2000). He has consulted on 50-inch web reductions and redesigns, and has helped produce, art direct and design a number of books.

Steve currently serves as president of the SND-Foundation.

He's been a speaker at numerous conferences and workshops around the U.S., a visiting professor at Syracuse University, a guest speaker at The Poynter Institute, and a visuals coach for several newspapers.

Before Detroit, Steve spent time at the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader (named one of the World's Best Designed in 1998), the York (Pa.) Daily Record, the Syracuse (N.Y.) Newspapers and the Norwich (N.Y.) Evening Sun. He graduated from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School and Poynter's visual apprenticeship program. He has a degree in English and another in magazine journalism, but has worked in newspaper design in one capacity or another for more than 15 years.