Steven Allen Adams is the state government reporter for The Parkersburg News & Sentinel, The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register, The Weirton Daily Times, The Inter-Mountain in Elkins, The Journal in Martinsburg, and other papers owned by Ogden Newspapers in West Virginia.

Adams is a winner of multiple West Virginia Press Association awards and a two-time winner of the West Virginia Broadcasters Association award for best spot news coverage for his election night reporting. The Washington Post named Adams one of the best state-based political reporters in 2009. He was also named a 2012 Generation Next: 40 Under 40 by The State Journal.

Adams returned to journalism after five years in government, working for the Democratic and Republican majorities in the West Virginia Senate as a communications specialist, and as the assistant communications director for Secretary of State Mac Warner.