Sonja Steptoe Time Magazine Senior correspondent
Los Angeles
At the top of her game in the publishing world, Sonja Steptoe, AB '82, BJ '82, has interviewed the likes of Billy Graham, Kenneth Starr, Gloria Steinem and Rick Warren, and has covered the 9/11 tragedy, the Mike Tyson rape trial and basketball point shaving at Arizona State. She began her career at the Wall Street Journal, and has been a correspondent for Sports Illustrated , People, HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Court TV and CNN/SI. Today she is Time magazine's senior correspondent and deputy Los Angeles Bureau chief. With Jackie Joyner-Kersee she co-wrote A Kind of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete . She won an EMMY Award in 1999 and the National Headliner Award in 1998 for outstanding sports journalism. A Duke University law graduate, Steptoe was a Harry S Truman Scholar and a Rhodes Clay Scholar as an undergraduate at MU where she double-majored in economics and journalism. A Jefferson Club member since 1994, Steptoe has served on the MIZZOU magazine Advisory Board, the College of Arts & Science Alumni Board and was Grand Marshal of the 1997 Mizzou Homecoming Parade. She received the Distinguished Arts & Science Alumni Award in 1994.
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At the top of her game in the publishing world, Sonja Steptoe, AB '82, BJ '82, has interviewed the likes of Billy Graham, Kenneth Starr, Gloria Steinem and Rick Warren, and has covered the 9/11 tragedy, the Mike Tyson rape trial and basketball point shaving at Arizona State. She began her career at the Wall Street Journal, and has been a correspondent for Sports Illustrated , People, HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Court TV and CNN/SI. Today she is Time magazine's senior correspondent and deputy Los Angeles Bureau chief. With Jackie Joyner-Kersee she co-wrote A Kind of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete . She won an EMMY Award in 1999 and the National Headliner Award in 1998 for outstanding sports journalism. A Duke University law graduate, Steptoe was a Harry S Truman Scholar and a Rhodes Clay Scholar as an undergraduate at MU where she double-majored in economics and journalism. A Jefferson Club member since 1994, Steptoe has served on the MIZZOU magazine Advisory Board, the College of Arts & Science Alumni Board and was Grand Marshal of the 1997 Mizzou Homecoming Parade. She received the Distinguished Arts & Science Alumni Award in 1994.
