Background
Steve Fainaru was born about 1962 in Mountain View, California, United States, but grew up in Marin County.
2013
9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
Journalist and ESPN writer Steve Fainaru speaks onstage during the "League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" panel at the PBS portion of the 2013 Summer Television Critics Association tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 6, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California.
2013
9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
(L-R) Harry Carson, investigative reporter and author Mark Fainaru-Wada, journalist and ESPN writer Steve Fainaru, senior coordinating producer at ESPN Dwayne Bray and filmmaker Michael Kirk speak onstage during the "League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" panel at the PBS portion of the 2013 Summer Television Critics Association tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 6, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California.
1984
Columbia, MO 65211, United States
Steve Fainaru graduated from the University of Missouri in 1984 with a Bachelor of Journalism degree.
1992
116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
Steve Fainaru earned a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University in the City of New York in 1992.
2008
Steve Fainaru walks through the newsroom after it was announced he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Monday, April 7, 2008, in Washington.
2008
Richard Oppel, Pulitzer Board co-chair (left), presents the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting to Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post.
2013
9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
(L-R) Harry Carson, investigative reporter and author Mark Fainaru-Wada, journalist and ESPN writer Steve Fainaru, senior coordinating producer at ESPN Dwayne Bray and filmmaker Michael Kirk speak onstage during the "League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" panel at the PBS portion of the 2013 Summer Television Critics Association tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 6, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California.
2013
ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru talk on the set of Outside the Lines during a 2013 interview.
2014
Steve Audette, Jim Gilmore, Michael Kirk, Colette Neirouz Hanna, Lauren Ezell, Steve Fainaru, and Mark Fainaru-Wada at the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards for "Frontline: League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis".
2015
Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru speak about their book “League of Denial”, which they wrote together.
2018
Reporter Steve Fainaru received Emmy Award for Sports Journalism as a part of Outstanding Sports Journalism E:60 “The Dictator’s Team” in 2018.
395 Doherty Dr, Larkspur, CA 94939, United States
Steve Fainaru attended Redwood High School, Larkspur, California.
Steve Fainaru with his brother, Mark Fainaru-Wada
Steve Fainaru with his brother, Mark Fainaru-Wada
(In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from t...)
In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of Fidel Castro's socialist revolution.
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2001
(There are tens of thousands of them in Iraq. They work fo...)
There are tens of thousands of them in Iraq. They work for companies with exotic and ominous-sounding names, like Crescent Security Group, Triple Canopy, and Blackwater Worldwide. They travel in convoys of multicolored pickups fortified with makeshift armor, belt-fed machine guns, frag grenades, and even shoulder-fired missiles. They protect everything from the U.S. ambassador and American generals to shipments of Frappuccino bound for Baghdad's Green Zone.
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2008
(League of Denial reveals how the NFL, over a period of ne...)
League of Denial reveals how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage.
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2013
Steve Fainaru was born about 1962 in Mountain View, California, United States, but grew up in Marin County.
Steve Fainaru attended Redwood High School, Larkspur, California. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1984 with a Bachelor of Journalism degree, later in 1992 he earned a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in the City of New York.
Steve Fainaru began his career as an intern for the San Jose Mercury News. Fainaru quickly found himself covering sports from around the Bay Area. After excelling as a sports writer at the Mercury News, Fainaru took a position on the East Coast at the Hartford Courant as a journalist from 1986 to 1989. He then accepted a position of reporter and sportswriter at the Boston Globe covering the Boston Red Sox, where he was later named the Globe New York bureau chief.
Despite being paid to do what he enjoyed, Fainaru decided he wanted to do more. Fainaru decided to leave the domestic news world and found a position covering the drug wars in Bogota Columbia. Steve then learned Spanish and was transferred to the Globe’s office in Mexico City, where he was able to pursue his passion for covering international events. Later he moved to Boston, Massachusetts where he served as a reporter and sportswriter at the beginning and from 1995 to 1998 he was named the Globe New York bureau chief at the Boston Globe.
While working for the Washington Post from 2000 as a foreign correspondent, his career took a turn for the better when Steve was sent to cover the war in Iraq in the fall of 2004. After he left the Post in 2009 and became managing editor of The Bay Citizen from 2010 to 2012, a San Francisco Bay Area news organization. Since 2012 he has been working as a journalist for ESPN.
Steve Fainaru and fellow journalist, Ray Sanchez, have captured one of the most amazing sports stories of recent times in “The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream” that was published in 2001.
After covering the war efforts, Fainaru wrote “Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq” in 2008. His book details the atrocities and hardships of private contractors in Iraq. Steve Fainaru is the co-author with his brother Mark Fainaru-Wada of “League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth” in 2013.
(League of Denial reveals how the NFL, over a period of ne...)
2013(In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from t...)
2001(There are tens of thousands of them in Iraq. They work fo...)
2008Steve Fainaru is married to Maureen Fan. They have a son, Will.