Emil Steiner

Who is Emil Steiner?

Emil Gregory Steiner is an American novelist, and journalist who currently writes and edits The League -- washingtonpost.com's NFL discussion platform. He has also served as the offbeat news blogger for The Washington Post and as a contributor to MSNBC, Washington Post Radio, NPR, CNN, WPHT and the BBC. He was a member of the newsroom awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the Virginia Tech Massacre. Steiner currently teaches communications and journalism at Temple University.

Steiner is an American, and a descendant of Holocaust survivors, born in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 30, 1978. He lived in Philadelphia, London, and Prague attending Friends' Central School, in Wynnewood, and the University of Pennsylvania.

After graduating in 2001, he worked as a journalist in Prague, Czech Republic. His first novel, Drunk Driving was published in April, 2005.

Steiner made international news in June 2007 with his live-blogging of Pearson v. Chung, the $54 million pants lawsuit. The case involved DC Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson suing his dry cleaner for $54 million under the DC consumer protection act after they lost his pants. Steiner's exclusive live-blogging coverage provided the only up-to-the minute reporting from inside the Washington, DC Superior Courthouse.