Steven B. Butler

Former ICWA Executive Director Steven Butler is a journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent in Asia for nearly 20 years and served as a foreign editor in Knight Ridder’s Washington bureau. He later became Asia program coordinator and senior program consultant at the Committee to Protect Journalists. He holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University. Steven was a fellow in South Korea from 1983 to 1986 and came back in 2007 to run the institute for seven years.

Posts and Dispatches from Steven B. Butler:

• South Korea votes for democracy
  Steven Butler on the country's pivotal 1985 elections....

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• Steve Butler quoted in NYTMagazine about his work defending press freedom
  Former fellow and former ICWA executive director Steve Butler (Northeast Asia, 1983-1986) was quoted in a The New York Times Magazine feature about how the journalist Gauri Lankesh became a casualty of India’s increasingly intolerant politics: “There seems to be a license that people feel to beat up or attack journalists in India.” Butler is currently...

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• Steven B. Butler Newsletters
  Fellowship Years: 1983 – 1986 Fellowship Area(s): Korea Korea: A First Impression Untitled An Exercise in Logic 1997 A Glance at People’s China: Summer 1983 Getting Around Seoul: With Ten Rules of the Road and a Metaphor A Visit to Panmunjom On Becoming the World’s Fourth Largest City Korea’s Movie Industry: Fighting to Survive Getting Away From...

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