Steve Osunsami Biography
Steve Osunsami is a Nigerian-American journalist. Since joining ABC News in 1997, he has been a senior national reporter in Atlanta, Georgia, producing reports for World News with David Muir, Good Morning America, and other station broadcasts and platforms.
Steve Osunsami Age
Osunsami is 51 years old as of 2022. He was born on 6 February 1971 in Peoria, Illinois, United States.
Steve Osunsami Height
Osunsami stands at a height of 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm).
Steve Osunsami Family
Osunsami was born in the United States to Nigerian immigrants. He has revealed that he grew up in poverty and is a Head Start graduate. He is a University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana graduate, where he began his career as an Illinois Broadcasting Association intern and writer for The Daily Illini.
Steve Osunsami Partner
Osunsami is gay and has spoken out about his experiences as a black gay man in journalism as well as a black member of the LGBTQ community. Joe Remillard is his spouse.
Steve Osunsami Salary
Osunsami earns an annual salary of $106 thousand.
Steve Osunsami Net Worth
Osunsami has an estimated net worth of $9 Million.
Steve Osunsami Career
“World News with David Muir,” “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” “ABC News Live,” and other ABC News shows, platforms, and prime time specials use his reports. In April 1997, he started working for ABC News as a correspondent for NewsOne, the news division’s affiliate news service. Osunsami is a long-serving correspondent for the network.
Osunsami began reporting for “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings” in 1998, focusing on the southeastern United States. That year, he began covering the dragging death of James Byrd Jr in Texas, which was the first racially heated murder case of his network career. While the killer was on death row, Osunsami questioned the white supremacist convicted in the murder.
For more than two decades, Osunsami has covered the most pressing social justice problems of the day, including racial discrimination, the wrongfully imprisoned, gay marriage, transgender rights, and the fight over policing in black and brown neighborhoods.
In 2021, Osunsami headed a team that examined the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, producing a groundbreaking podcast for ABC News Audio that told the tale for the first time to a large audience. For numerous ABC News prime time specials in the summer of 2020, Osunsami covered racial riots in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. Throughout 2020, Osunsami covered the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic repercussions of the statewide shutdowns, and the search for a vaccine.
He was the first network reporter on the scene of the racially charged police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, in August of 2014, and he oversaw the network’s coverage of the event. He was also a member of the Murrow Award-winning ABC News reporting team that covered the 2015 Baltimore riots in the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s arrest and murder. In the same year, Osunsami led coverage of Walter Scott’s racially charged police shooting death in South Carolina. He also oversaw the network’s coverage of a white supremacist’s mass shooting inside a historic black church in Charleston. He then went on to lead the reporting on South Carolina’s decision to remove the confederate battle flag from their statehouse, a story Osunsami has followed for nearly two decades.
During the 2000 presidential election recount in Florida, Osunsami was the first ABC News reporter on the scene. Twenty years later, he oversaw the network’s coverage of Georgia’s contentious elections, which delivered Democrats control of the US Congress.
He also covered big meteorological disasters, like as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the aftermath of the storm, which nearly destroyed New Orleans. He covered the Alabama tornadoes in 2011, which killed over 200 people, and he’s covered more than two dozen hurricanes throughout the years. The topic of missing black children who are disregarded by police and the media has been covered extensively by Osunsami’s feature reporting.
Osunsami was a correspondent for the Emmy® Award-winning “ABC 2000: The Millennium,” and he has received dozens of awards for his work, including recognition from the National Association of Black Journalists and the Columbia School of Journalism in 2002 for his insightful and consistent reporting on racial and ethnic issues.
Osunsami previously worked as a reporter for the ABC affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle and as a reporter and substitute anchor for the NBC affiliate WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was honored by the Associated Press and the Michigan Association of Broadcasters multiple times for his work at WOOD-TV. He began his career in journalism as a reporter at WREX in Rockford, Illinois.