Steve Platt (born 1954)[1] is a British journalist who was editor of New Statesman and Society magazine 1991 - 1996.
Platt studied geography at the London School of Economics, edited Shelter's housing magazine Roof, and was an activist in the squatting movement.[2] In the 1980s he and two others ran a short life housing organisation, Islington Community Housing, in north-east London.[3]
The fortnightly Statesman column by John Pilger began in 1991, while Platt was editor, after the two men had worked together on media campaigns against the First Gulf war.[4] Platt, "while not securing a spectacular turnaround in the merged New Statesman & Societys fortunes... made it once again readable".[5] Platt was described as "a propagandist, using New Statesman & Society as a platform for various campaigns against executive abuse of state power", and was credited for bringing stability to it by staying with it, remaking it in a September 1994 into "a much glossier magazine with the self-proclaimed 'new politics' of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown".[5] Platt later wrote for Red Pepper magazine.[4]