Steve Alperin

Alperin holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BA in government from Harvard University.^[1]

Alperin is the founder and CEO of cancer information platform SurvivorNet. He worked as a writer and producer at ABC News and was senior producer for Peter Jennings' lead news broadcast.^[2][3]

He was the editor in charge of ABC's website in 2006 when it broke the scandal involving Congressmen Mark Foley and sexually explicit emails to underage congressional pages.^[4] The Foley story and its evolution are cited as important moments in the use of the internet to further investigative reporting at a major news organization.^[5] Some debate still exists about the timing of the story only a few months before the 2006 mid-term elections, and to what degree the scandal suppressed turnout.^[6]

In 2010 Alperin joined the staff of The Daily, an iPad-only news app created by Rupert Murdoch's news organization.^[7]

In 2013 Alperin became the Chief Business Officer of the news outlet Vocativ.^[8] He and his co-founder Scott Cohen met at ABC News and hired other prominent journalists to work towards combating fake news.^[9] In 2015, he left the company following a reorganization of its leadership.^[10]

In 2018 he co-founded SurvivorNet, a website to provide information to people with cancer.^[11] His idea spurred from his father's cancer diagnosis and the absence of clear information about it.^[12][13] Alperin has been recognized as a prominent speaker on cancer research by The Atlantic's "People v. Cancer" panel.^[14]

Alperin is the recipient of two awards from the Writers Guild of America, including one for the feature "Reagan's Funeral".^[15]