SXSW 2012

Dean of Faculty
The Poynter Institute
Stephen Buckley is the Dean of Faculty at The Poynter Institute. Prior to joining Poynter, he was the digital publisher at the St. Petersburg Times, where he worked from 2001-2009. Before moving into that position, Buckley served in a variety of roles at the Times—managing editor, assistant managing editor/world, national reporter, and (for several months) city editor. Before coming to the Times, he worked for The Washington Post for 12 years as a Metro reporter and a foreign correspondent. He has been a Pulitzer Prize juror and a judge for the American Society of News Editors Writing Awards. In 2002, he won the Paul Hansell Distinguished Journalism Award from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, for the best body of work among the state’s reporters in 2001. Buckley is married with two children.