Steve Bailey has spent most of his 23 years at the Boston Globe in the Business Department as a columnist, reporter and editor.

For the last two years, Bailey has written the twice-a-week Downtown column, a broadly-defined, general-interest business column. He previously co-authored Boston Capital, a Heard-on-the-Street-style investment column, for 3 years and covered the investment industry before that. Bailey spent five years as the Globe's business editor and was an assistant business editor for seven years. He previously worked as a reporter and editor at several newspapers in South Carolina.

Bailey, 50, is married with three children and lives in Cambridge, MA.