Steffens Named Chair At Missouri

By: Joe Strupp Martha Steffens, ousted as executive editor of The Examiner in San Francisco in December 2000 after less than a month on the job, has been named the first Society of American Business Editors and Writers chair in business and financial journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Steffens, 48, was the first top editor of The Examiner under the Fang family, which took over the paper from the Hearst Corp. This month, David Burgin, who succeeded Steffens, also was fired.