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

Osunsami 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]

Amidst the political and racial unrest of 2020, Osunsami covered the Killing of Rayshard Brooks and the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery.[13]

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.[14]

Osunsami has won or been nominated for many awards, including a 2016 National Emmy Award.[15]

Personal

Osunsami identifies as gay and has spoken publicly on both his experiences as a black gay man in journalism, and a black member of the LGBTQ community.[16] He is married to Joe Remillard.[17]

References
  1. https://abcnews.go.com/News/steve-osunsami-abc-news-official-biography/story?id=127374
  2. Lindsay Powers (23 August 2011). "ABC News' Steve Osunsami Reveals Childhood Poverty". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  3. "Steve Osunsami, Mara Schiavocampo Take Home Two NABJ Awards". Adweek. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  4. Bainbridge, Julia (16 November 2017). "Home for Dinner: Steve Osunsami, ABC News correspondent". Atlanta Magazine. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
  5. Powers, Lindsay (23 August 2011). "ABC News' Steve Osunsami Reveals Childhood Poverty". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
  6. "ABC Reporter Steve Osunsami At UTC". chattanoogan.com. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  7. Will, Kaitlyn. "EIU student earns exclusive IBA multicultural internship". eiu.edu. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
  8. "ABC Reporter Steve Osunsami At UTC". The Chattanoogan. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
  9. Steinberg, Brian (28 April 2015). "TV News: Baltimore Riots Draw Lester Holt, Anderson Cooper, Bill Hemmer". Variety. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
  10. "CAMPAIGN 2000 (GORE VS. BUSH: FLORIDA RECOUNT)". Vanderbilt News Archive. Vanderbilt. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
  11. Kim, Susanna (24 June 2015). "Charleston Shooting Victims Remembered as Funerals to Begin". ABC News. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
  12. Folkenflik, David (6 November 2008). "Do We Want Our Journalists to Get Emotional?". NPR. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
  13. Saunders, Patrick (8 December 2020). "ABC reporter Steve Osunsami marks 23 years in LGBTQ Atlanta". Project Q Atlanta. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  14. "My America: What My Country Means to Me, by 150 Americans from All Walks of Life". Barnes and Nobles. Retrieved 24 Feb 2020.
  15. "Osunsami '93 JOURN, nominated for Emmy". College of Media at University of Illinois. 2016-07-25. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  16. Saunders, Patrick (8 December 2020). "ABC reporter Steve Osunsami marks 23 years in LGBTQ Atlanta". Project Q Atlanta. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  17. "Home for Dinner: Steve Osunsami, ABC News correspondent". Atlanta Magazine. 2017-11-16. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
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