Steve Stewart

President and Chief Executive Officer

Stewart has been part of BNI's senior management team since 2010 and was promoted to president and CEO in 2023. He lives and works from Smithfield, Va., and Nashville, Tenn. Stewart is majority owner of The Smithfield (Va.) Times and The Coastland Times, serving the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Before joining BNI in 2006, Stewart was publisher of The Clarksdale (Miss.) Press Register and The Yazoo (Miss.) Herald and editor of The Meridian (Miss.) Star. Stewart, a graduate of the University of Mississippi, is a two-time finalist for the Carmage Walls Commentary Prize for excellence in editorial and column writing. In 2005, he was the inaugural John Emmerich Fellow at the University of Oxford in England.