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{{Short description|American businessman}}
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| birth_name  = Stephen Allan Capus
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1963|10|04}} 
| birth_place = [[Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
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| spouse      = Sophia Faskianos (m. 1996)
| children    = 3
| occupation  = Executive Producer of the CBS Evening News and Executive Editor of CBS News.
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'''Stephen Allan "Steve" Capus''' (born October 4, 1963) is a news executive, producter, and journalist. He has been president of [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]] since January 2024. Previously, he was an Executive Editor of CBS News.<ref name="cbspressexpress.com">{{cite web|title=Steve Capus Joins CBS News as Executive Producer of the "CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley" and Executive Editor of CBS News|url=http://cbspressexpress.com/cbs-news/releases/view?id=38847}}</ref> He is the former president of [[NBC News]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Stelter|first=Brian|title=In Wake of Restructuring, NBC News President Quits|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/capus-head-of-nbc-news-is-departing/|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 2013|access-date=14 March 2013}}</ref>

==Early life and career==
Steve Capus was born in 1963, the son of Jean and Paul Capus.<ref name=CapusWedding>{{Cite web|title=Sophia Faskianos, Stephen Capus   |date=December 29, 1996 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/29/style/sophia-faskianos-stephen-capus.html |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> His mother is a teacher's aide; his father is a district manager for a dental supply company.<ref name=CapusWedding /> He graduated from [[William Tennent High School]] in [[Warminster, Pennsylvania]], and went on to attend [[Temple University]], graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism in 1986. Capus began his journalism career in radio and print, working at several stations and daily newspapers in the Philadelphia area. Capus was a director at WCSD-FM, a nonprofit community radio station in Warminster, in the early 1980s. He worked at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia in 1986, and became an executive producer with KYW-TV in Philadelphia in 1990.
 
Capus moved to Charlotte, N.C. in 1993, joining the NBC News team as the senior producer of ''[[NBC Nightside]]'', an overnight news program.

Capus then continued his career with NBC in Manhattan. During this time, he was the broadcast producer of ''NBC News Sunrise'' and then the supervising producer for ''Today''. From 1997 to May 2001, Capus was the executive producer of MSNBC's ''[[The News with Brian Williams]]''. He was also the executive producer of numerous NBC News breaking reports and MSNBC special broadcasts. Among them were the 2000 presidential primaries and election, the “Summit in Silicon Valley” with [[Tom Brokaw]] and the political series ''100 Days, 1000 Voices''.

Capus was the executive producer of ''NBC Nightly News'' from May 2001 to June 2005. During this time, Capus was the executive producer for NBC News' coverage of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, the war in Iraq, and the "Decision 2002-2004" political coverage.

Capus was then promoted to senior vice president of NBC News, where he led the network news division, was executive in charge of MSNBC, MSNBC and NBCNEWS.com digital and mobile properties, and NBC News radio.

Capus served as a member of the following boards: NBC/Microsoft Joint Venture, The Weather Channel and weather.com, and The Newseum in Washington, DC.

==President of NBC News==
In November 2005, Capus was named president of NBC News. Capus has served as the arbiter of issues involving ethics, style, standards, safety and other matters that affected the Division's journalistic bearing. Capus reported to Steve Burke, chief executive officer of NBC Universal.

Capus announced February 1, 2013, that he was leaving the network.<ref>{{cite web|title=President Steve Capus leaving NBC News|date=February 2013 |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/02/president-steve-capus-leaving-nbc-news-155892|publisher=Politico|access-date=1 February 2013}}</ref>

Steve Capus joined [[IESE Business School]] as Executive in Residence, to share his expertise.<ref>{{cite web|title=Steve Capus, Former Head of NBC News, Joins IESE|url=http://www.iese.edu/en/about-iese/news-media/news/2014/january/steve-capus-former-head-of-nbc-news-joins-iese/|publisher=IESE Business School, University of Navarra|accessdate=12 February 2013}}</ref> [http://blog.iese.edu/steve-capus/ Steve Capus started a blog] in January 2014 with stories and analysis about entrepreneurs, leadership, communications, journalism, politics, transformation, innovation, The Digital Revolution and big ideas.

==CBS News==
On May 6, 2014, CBS News announced that Capus would join the Network as Executive Editor of CBS News and Executive Producer of the ''CBS Evening News''.  He was dismissed of those duties on January 23, 2018, and replaced in that capacity by [[Mosheh Oinounou]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediaite.com/online/former-nbc-news-president-steve-capus-now-out-at-cbs-evening-news/|title=Former NBC News President Steve Capus Now Out at CBS Evening News|date=January 23, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-oinounou-cbs-news-20180123-story.html|title=Mosheh Oinounou will succeed Steve Capus as executive producer of 'CBS Evening News'|date=January 23, 2018|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

CBS News Chairman [[Jeff Fager]] lauded Capus as a successful journalist and news manager and said that “he is a real pro with an extraordinary record, and we are fortunate to have him joining us at CBS News.”
In the announcement, CBS News President [[David Rhodes (CBS News President)|David Rhodes]] said that “Steve will make the ''Evening News'' more competitive than ever and will make our management team stronger than ever.”<ref name="cbspressexpress.com"/> 

==RFE/RL==
Stephen Capus has served as [[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]]’s (RFE/RL) President since January 1, 2024. Prior to his appointment, Capus offered strategic and managerial consultation to the [https://about.rferl.org/people/stephen-capus/ President of RFE/RL and advised senior management on a number of projects related to the 24/7 Russian-language digital network Current Time, as well as the new Russian language multi-platform content offering Votvot.]{{Primary source inline|date=December 2024}}

==Personal life==
In 1996, he married former NBC News producer Sophia Faskianos in a [[Greek Orthodox]] ceremony in [[Dover, New Hampshire]].<ref name=CapusWedding /> He has three children.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/team/steve-capus/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029035640/http://www.cbsnews.com/team/steve-capus |archive-date=2014-10-29 |title=Steve Capus - CBS News|website=[[CBS News]] }}</ref>

==Awards==

* 2004 [[Gerald Loeb Award]] for Television Short Form business journalism for "The Jobless Recovery"<ref name=LOEB-2004>{{cite web|url=http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x5190.xml|title=2004 Winners|website=UCLA Anderson School of Management|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826171303/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x5190.xml|archive-date=August 26, 2012|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://nbcumv.com/release_detail.nbc/news-20051129000000-nbcnewsannouncemen.html NBC News announcement of Steve Capus's promotion to president]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080517112944/http://www.nbcuni.com/About_NBC_Universal/Executive_Bios/capus_steve.shtml NBC Executive bio of Steve Capus]
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*[https://www.cbsnews.com/team/steve-capus/ CBS News bio of Steve Capus]

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