Stephen Francis Patrick Aloysius Dunleavy was an Australian journalist based in the United States, best known as a reporter, columnist and editor for the New York Post from 1977 to 1986 and again from 1995 until his retirement in 2008.
13 Facts About Steve Dunleavy
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Steve Dunleavy was a lead reporter on the US tabloid television program A Current Affair in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Steve Dunleavy subsequently worked in Hong Kong for The South China Morning Post, and freelanced in Japan, India, Greece, Italy, Spain and England.
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Steve Dunleavy worked in the New York bureau of Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspapers.
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Steve Dunleavy joined the New York Post as a news reporter in 1977, not long after Murdoch purchased the newspaper.
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Steve Dunleavy was persuaded by Murdoch to transfer to the new Fox network in 1986, and was involved in creating the United States tabloid television format in the 1980s.
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Steve Dunleavy became a regular reporter for A Current Affair, and for the short-lived primetime newsmagazine The Reporters.
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ACA lasted from 1986 to 1995, after which Steve Dunleavy returned to the New York Post as a columnist.
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Steve Dunleavy controversially disguised himself in scrubs to gain access to the hospital where Son of Sam victim Stacy Moskowitz was being treated and conducted an interview with her family.
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Steve Dunleavy died at his home in Long Island, New York on June 24,2019, at the age of 81.
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Steve Dunleavy was survived by his second wife, Gloria, whom he married in 1971, and their sons, Peter and Sean.
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Steve Dunleavy's personality was the model for actor Robert Downey Jr.
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Steve Dunleavy was portrayed in the ESPN mini-series The Bronx is Burning by actor Sean Martin Hingston.