Stephen B. Shepard

Stephen B. Shepard (born July 30, 1939 He married fellow Newsweek senior editor Lynn Povich on September 16, 1979, at a ceremony officiated by Rabbi Balfour Brickner. The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship is a one-year program that allows business journalists to take a series of classes through the School of Journalism in business, law and international affairs. From 1984 to 2005, Shepard was the editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek. Stephen J. Adler of The Wall Street Journal was named to succeed Shepard as editor in chief at BusinessWeek. Shepard served as dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism until December 31, 2013, but remained on the faculty.

Shepard has written three books. The first, Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path From Print to Digital, was published in 2012 by McGraw-Hill. (The Washington Post, November 2, 2012.) His second book, A Literary Journey to Jewish Identity: Re-Reading Bellow, Roth, Malamud, Ozick, and Other Great Jewish Writers, was published in 2018. And his third book, Second Thoughts: On Family, Friendship, Faith, and Writers, was published in 2021.

Shepard received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. He was president of the American Society of Magazine Editors from 1992 to 1994 and was selected in 1999 for inclusion in its hall of fame. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an influential foreign policy think tank.