Steve Buttry is the Digital Transformation Editor for Digital First Media. He was the director of community engagement for TBD, a short-lived Washington D.C. local news website and cable channel. Steve has spent more than 40 years in the news business as a writer, editor and writing coach. In 2010, he was named "Editor of the Year" by Editor & Publisher magazine for his work as editor of The Gazette and GazetteOnline in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Steve has pursued his journalism career in 44 states and nine Canadian provinces, as well as in Ireland, Venezuela, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador and Russia, with conferences in France and Italy scheduled for April 2013.