Steve Osunsami
Steve Osunsami[1] is an American journalist. He has been a correspondent for ABC News in Atlanta, Georgia since 1997, contributing reports to World News with David Muir, Good Morning America, and other ABC News broadcasts and platforms.[2][3]
Early Life & Education
Osunsami was born in Washington, DC to parents who were Nigerian immigrants.[4] Osunsami has shared that he came from poverty and is a graduate of the Head Start Program.[5] He is a graduate of University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana,[6] where being an Illinois Broadcasting Association intern helped launch his career.[7]
Career
He started his career at WREX-TV in Rockford, Illinois, WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and at KOMO-TV in Seattle before becoming a correspondent for ABC News in 1997.[8]
His work has taken him all over the country, from covering riots in Baltimore and Ferguson Missouri,[9] to the 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida,[10] and the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at the Charleston church shooting in 2015.[11]
Osunsami was the subject of political debate after he was one of several African-American reporters who showed emotion live on the air on the night of the election of the nation's first black president, Barack Obama.[12]
An essay by Osunsami was featured in the book, “My America: What My Country Means to Me, by 150 Americans from All Walks of Life,” edited by Hugh Downs.[13]
Osunsami has won or been nominated for many awards, including a 2016 National Emmy Award.[14]
Personal
He is married to Joe Remillard.[15]
References
- ^ https://abcnews.go.com/News/steve-osunsami-abc-news-official-biography/story?id=127374
- ^ Lindsay Powers (23 August 2011). "ABC News' Steve Osunsami Reveals Childhood Poverty". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "Steve Osunsami, Mara Schiavocampo Take Home Two NABJ Awards". Adweek. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ Bainbridge, Julia (16 November 2017). "Home for Dinner: Steve Osunsami, ABC News correspondent". Atlanta Magazine. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
- ^ Powers, Lindsay (23 August 2011). "ABC News' Steve Osunsami Reveals Childhood Poverty". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
- ^ "ABC Reporter Steve Osunsami At UTC". chattanoogan.com. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ Will, Kaitlyn. "EIU student earns exclusive IBA multicultural internship". eiu.edu. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
- ^ "ABC Reporter Steve Osunsami At UTC". The Chattanoogan. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
- ^ Steinberg, Brian (28 April 2015). "TV News: Baltimore Riots Draw Lester Holt, Anderson Cooper, Bill Hemmer". Variety. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
- ^ "CAMPAIGN 2000 (GORE VS. BUSH: FLORIDA RECOUNT)". Vanderbilt News Archive. Vanderbilt. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
- ^ Kim, Susanna (24 June 2015). "Charleston Shooting Victims Remembered as Funerals to Begin". ABC News. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
- ^ Folkenflik, David (6 November 2008). "Do We Want Our Journalists to Get Emotional?". NPR. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
- ^ "My America: What My Country Means to Me, by 150 Americans from All Walks of Life". Barnes and Nobles. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
- ^ "Osunsami '93 JOURN, nominated for Emmy". College of Media at University of Illinois. 2016-07-25. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
- ^ "Home for Dinner: Steve Osunsami, ABC News correspondent". Atlanta Magazine. 2017-11-16. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
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