About Steve Hendershot
Steve Hendershot is a decorated Chicago journalist and host of the documentary-style podcast Uningrained. Over his 25-year journalism career, his work for publications including Crain's Chicago Business and WBEZ has earned dozens of awards both locally and nationally, including two 2026 awards for excellence in Chicago journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists.
He’s also a veteran podcaster who served as the longtime host of the Project Management Institute’s award-winning, top-ranked podcast Projectified. Listeners downloaded Projectified more than two million times, and the show earned many awards including a 2026 B2 Award from the Association of National Advertisers, and awards from the Content Marketing Association and Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts.
Nintendo Life called Steve’s bestselling 2017 book about the video game series Street Fighter one of the top gaming books of all time.
View Steve’s feature-writing portfolio, including journalism as well as brand storytelling.
“Deeply reported and engagingly written. Rich in description, human connection, data and historical context ... this is truly impactful journalism.”
—— The Alliance of Area Business Publishers, on Steve's series on the Chicago City Council. (Winner of a 2024 AABP Gold Award, as well as a 2023 Peter J. Lisagor Award for excellence in Chicago journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists.)What’s with the name?
Cedar Cathedral began with a passion project: a podcast that told the stories of artists and artisans pursuing the creative life in the Great Lakes region. Steve called the show Cedar Cathedral because “cathedral” is the word Ernest Hemingway used to describe the Michigan forests where he came of age. When the show morphed into a content studio, Steve kept the name as an homage to Cedar Cathedral’s beginnings.
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