David Steinberg

David A. Steinberg is president of UNITY: Journalists for Diversity, a coalition of the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association and the Native American Journalists Association. Steinberg is copy desk chief at The San Francisco Chronicle, where he has worked since 1996. He also serves as editor of The Chronicle Stylebook and chairs the paper’s Style Council, which sets the newspaper’s usage guidelines. In 2010, he was elected to a second two-year term as president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association during the association’s 20th anniversary conference in San Francisco. He was first elected to NLGJA’s national board in 2001 and served as NLGJA treasurer from 2004 through 2008. Steinberg lives in his hometown of Oakland, Calif., with his husband, Gregory Foley.