Steve Cichon’s Professional Highlights

An educator, author, and elected union official with experience in communications, broadcasting, journalism, Franciscan theology, non-profit management and mental health. 

Steve Cichon

Education

  • Orchard Park High School
    • Regents with Honors
  • SUNY at Buffalo
    • BA– Community Mental Health & Nonprofit Management

Education Career

Steve Cichon, Room 207
  • Bishop Timon – St. Jude High School: Started in 2018 as Communications Director, moved into a classroom full-time in 2020– first teaching English 9 & 10 and now Religion 9 & 10. Unanimously elected Timon Union Rep 2023 and 2024. 
  • Medaille College: Adjunct Professor, Communications, 2014-2018, teaching mostly Public Speaking, as many as five sections per semester.

Media Career

  • Spent 25 years working in Buffalo Radio & TV at WBEN Radio, Channel 4, and WNSA Radio/Empire Sports Network. Left WBEN in 2013 as News Director after 10 years as a news reporter and anchor. 
Steve Cichon, WBEN News Director, 2013.
  • Wrote more than 1,600 installments of the [BN] Chronicles Buffalo history series for The Buffalo News, 2013-2023
  • Has written seven books: Amazon Author Page
Steve Cichon on the NABET/CWA picket line outside WIVB-TV, 1998.
  • A proud member of NABET/CWA Local 25 in 1998 when half of our unit was locked out by the out-of-town owners of WIVB-TV. 

Community Service

  • Advocate for Mental Health– have written extensively about my own mental health journey, testified before the Erie County Legislature, co-starred in TV public service announcement
  • Television co-host of Variety Club Telethon
Steve Cichon
  • Past Parish Council President, sacristan, catechist, lector, Eucharistic Minister at St. Mark Parish, Buffalo
  • Served as President of the non-profit Buffalo Broadcasters, past director of Parkside Community Association
Steve Cichon co-hosting the Variety Club Telethon, 2022.
Steve Cichon
  • Candidate for Erie County Clerk, 2018.
  • Endorsed Democrat & Working Families candidate
  • Raised $150,000 and received 103,000 votes

Awards

  • 40 Under 40, Buffalo Business First
  • Buffalo’s Best Blogger, Buffalo Spree
  • Parkside Partner Award, Parkside Community Association
  • News Director of the Year, Medaille College
  • Ten First Place Awards for Excellence in journalism, NYS Associated Press Association

Qualifications for holding SLTA office

  • Tenured at Timon, 9/23
  • Unanimously elected to represent Timon on SLTA Executive Board, 9/23
    • attended every meeting 23-24
  • Virtus Certified, October 23, 2018
Steve Cichon, 2017

To read more about Steve Cichon’s plans for a new era for the STLA, visit slta.stevecichon.com

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Steve Cichon

Steve Cichon writes about Buffalo’s pop culture history. His stories of Buffalo's past have appeared more than 1600 times in The Buffalo News. He's a proud Buffalonian helping the world experience the city he loves. Since the earliest days of the internet, Cichon's been creating content celebrating the people, places, and ideas that make Buffalo unique and special. The 25-year veteran of Buffalo radio and television has written five books and curates The Buffalo Stories Archives-- hundreds of thousands of books, images, and audio/visual media which tell the stories of who we are in Western New York.