Steven L. Warren currently writes and produces for CBNNews.com. He also writes and produces for The 700 Club, which is broadcast across the country every weekday.
Steve is a native Oklahoman. He has several national and regional writing, producing and directing credits achieved during his 30 years of experience in television broadcasting, national cable television, advertising and on the Internet.
Before joining the CBN News team, Steve worked as a writer-producer for national cable television networks in program production and on-air promotion. He has written and produced hundreds of television and radio commercials for clients.
He worked in the news and creative services departments of several television stations in Tulsa, Okla. While at KOTV, the CBS affiliate, he produced the traveling promotional weather show, "The Wild Wild Weather Show" which still performs in communities throughout northeastern Oklahoma. He also served as the news department's first full-time Web producer and frequently appeared on-air from the newsroom, reporting about the latest advances in Internet technology and new features on the KOTV Web site.
Steve has also worked as a Creative Services and News web producer for KREM-TV in Spokane, Wash. In addition to writing online news content, he wrote and produced commercials and programs for station projects. His program for The Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland Northwest won a SPARC award from the Spokane Public Relations Council for finally putting a face on local children who needed mentoring in their lives.
An avid Civil War historian, Warren wrote and produced the award-winning Civil War 90 minute documentary "Last Raid at Cabin Creek." His research for the documentary and his book Brilliant Victory: The Second Civil War Battle of Cabin Creek, Indian Territory took him to archives in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas and Missouri. He located and brought to light new eyewitness information about the second battle of Cabin Creek, which had not been seen in more than 90 years. The documentary is now a part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
In June 2010, Warren was awarded the Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal by the United Daughters of the Confederacy for his work on the Cabin Creek documentary and the Brilliant Victory book.
He is a member of the Civil War Preservation Trust, Friends of Cabin Creek Battlefield, Friends of the Hunley and the Company of Military Historians.
Steve received his M.A. degree in Journalism & Mass Communication from the University of Oklahoma. He also holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Tulsa.
He and his wife Amy have two daughters.