Steve Fox is editorial director and VP at PC World, where he oversees editorial content and strategy for pcworld.com and PC World magazine.  Prior to taking over the reins at PC World, Fox was editor in chief at high-flying startup Affinity Labs, where he oversaw a portfolio of 13 career-focused social networks catering to professionals and job seekers. During his tenure at Affinity Labs, Fox launched six new online communities, ranging from a site for HR practitioners to a network for women in the workplace, and presided over a period of explosive growth. Affinity Labs was acquired by Monster Worldwide in January 2008.

Before entering the start-up world, Fox served as editor in chief for IDG’s InfoWorld, the weekly IT-focused trade magazine and Web site, where he oversaw day-to-day editorial operations and was responsible for managing strategic development and implementation of editorial initiatives for online, print and events. Brought in as a consultant in March 2003 to direct the April 2003 relaunch/redesign (from tabloid to magazine format) and editorial refocusing of the 25-year-old magazine, Fox was appointed to the top editorial spot in June of that year. In March 2007, he led the successful transition of InfoWorld from print into online-only. An IDG stalwart, he also conceived and launched the monthly "Plugged In" column for IDG sister publication PC World and wrote it from November 2002 through October 2005.

Before InfoWorld, Fox was editorial director of the tech portal CNET.com, where he oversaw reviews, features, columns, and how-to coverage for ZDNet, CNET and Computer Shopper  magazine. He joined CNET in November 1999, was promoted to editor-in-chief of CNET Online in January 2000, added the ZDNet title to his portfolio in January 2001, and took on oversight of the print magazine in September 2001.

Under Fox’s leadership, CNET launched the Wireless, Music, Tech Trends, and Internet Services channels; increased reviews output by 40 percent while more than doubling consumer electronics coverage; published the Fortune-CNET Tech Review , a print project with Fortune  magazine; revamped CNET's San Francisco lab presence and added a second lab in New York; and incorporated the ZDNet editorial team into a merged CNET.com reviews staff. Despite the dot-com downturn and a wrenching staff downsizing, CNET Reviews showed steady traffic growth, increasing from 1.14 million daily page views in early 2000 to nearly 2 million by May 2002. With Fox at the helm, CNET won a 2001 Maggie Award from the Western Publishing Association for Best Online Publication and two other Maggies in 2002, for best online article and best regularly featured online column. CNET.com also won the Computer Press Association's 2001 CPA Award for best online article. In addition, Fox’s team was selected to run the official Best of Show Awards for both Comdex in 2000 and for PC Expo in 2000 and 2001.

Fox brings more than 30 years of publishing experience to the job, including a previous multi-year stint at IDG's PC World , where he was editor-in-chief of pcworld.com and, before that, Editor of the magazine. Under his watch, PC World  was consistently recognized as the top publication in its competitive set, garnering multiple awards from the American Business Press (including the Grand Neal in 1999), the American Society of Business Press Editors, the Western Publications Association, the Computer Press Association (including Best Computer Publication in 1999), and others.

In 1996 he signed on as founding editor-in-chief of The Web Magazine , a monthly print consumer publication, also published by IDG. Before launching The Web , Fox spent five and a half years at PC World , first as managing editor, then senior editor, and eventually executive editor for features. He also oversaw all the magazine's alliance projects with publications such as Newsweek  and Working Woman .

Prior to heading out west to San Francisco, Fox worked for Omni  magazine in New York for eight years, four of them as managing editor. He has also worked for Popular Mechanics  and the IEEE. A native New Yorker, he graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in English.