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STEVE OSUNSAMI
ABC News Correspondent
Steve Osunsami is an award-winning correspondent for ABC News based in the network's Southern Bureau in Atlanta. He contributes reports to "World News" and other ABC News broadcasts and platforms. He began his network career at ABC News in April of 1997 as a correspondent for NewsOne, ABC's affiliate news service.
In 1998 Mr. Osunsami began filing reports for "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," primarily covering the southeastern U.S. Among his recent assignments, Mr. Osunsami covered Hurricane Katrina and the storm's aftermath, and continues to file regular reports on the rebuilding and recovery efforts in New Orleans and in other Gulf Coast communities. He also covered the Jasper dragging death trial in Texas, the 2000 presidential election recount in Florida, the search for and capture of accused serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, as well as Hurricanes Ivan, Floyd and Charley.
Prior to joining ABC News, Mr. Osunsami was a reporter in Seattle for the ABC affiliate KOMO-TV and a reporter and substitute anchor for the NBC affiliate, WOOD-TV, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For his work at WOOD-TV, he was recognized several times with awards from the Associated Press and the Michigan Association of Broadcasters.
Mr. Osunsami's earliest work in broadcasting began with the then-ABC affiliate WREX in Rockford, Illinois, where he was a reporter and weekend weather forecaster.
Born in Washington, DC to Nigerian immigrants, Mr. Osunsami is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he studied broadcast journalism.