Steve Osunsami is a senior national correspondent for ABC News in Atlanta, Georgia, contributing reports to World News with David Muir, Good Morning America, and other station broadcasts and platforms since his start with ABC News in 1997.
10 Facts About Steve Osunsami
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Steve Osunsami has shared that he came from poverty and is a graduate of the Head Start Program.
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Steve Osunsami is a graduate of University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where being an Illinois Broadcasting Association intern and writing for The Daily Illini helped launch his career.
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Steve 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.
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Steve Osunsami's work has taken him all over the country, from covering riots in Baltimore and Ferguson Missouri, to the 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, and the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at the Charleston church shooting in 2015.
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Steve 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.
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Amidst the political and racial unrest of 2020, Steve Osunsami covered the killing of Rayshard Brooks and the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
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Steve Osunsami wrote and hosted the ABC podcast "Soul of a Nation: Tulsa's Buried Truth," which explores the 1921 Tulsa race massacre through archival audio and conversations with historians.
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Steve Osunsami has won or been nominated for many awards, including a 2016 National Emmy Award.
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Steve 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.