 Steve is a decades-long veteran journalist. He spent more than some 26 years based in Asia, which is where I first got to know his work during his indispensable coverage, much of it on Twitter, of the meltdown at the nuclear reactor plants in Fukushima back in 2011. His travels have taken him to more than 75 countries, including on-scene reporting from combat zones, civil uprisings, areas struck by major natural disasters.