Name Steve Hartman Role Broadcaster | Spouse Andrea Hartman | |
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Education Bowling Green State University Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast TV shows CBS Evening News, CBS News Sunday Morning Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form Similar People Scott Pelley, Charles Kuralt, Susan Zirinsky, Patricia Shevlin, Mo Rocca | ||
Steve Hartman pays tribute to his father
Stephen Robert "Steve" Hartman (born April 14, 1963) is a broadcast journalist.
Contents
- Steve Hartman pays tribute to his father
- Career
- Everybody Has a Story
- On the Road
- Personal life
- Awards
- References
Career
Hartman was born April 14, 1963 in Toledo, Ohio. Hartman earned a degree in broadcast journalism at Bowling Green State University, graduating in 1985. From 1984-87, he served as an intern and general assignment reporter for WTOL in Toledo, Ohio. From 1987-91, he was a feature reporter for KSTP in Minneapolis and held the same post at WABC-TV in New York City from 1991-94. From 1994-98, he served as a feature reporter for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, and hosted a segment called "The Stevening News". Hartman was also a correspondent for two CBS News magazines, Coast to Coast (1996–97) and Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel (1997–98). In 1998, Hartman became a full-time CBS News correspondent; he served as 60 Minutes II essayist from 2002 until the show was canceled in September 2005.
Everybody Has a Story
Hartman became well known for his award-winning feature series, Everybody Has a Story. Hartman got the idea from newspaper reporter David Johnson of the Lewiston [Idaho] Morning Tribune, He first tried a few stories on Public Eye. Hartman would toss a dart over his shoulder at a map of the United States, and then travel to wherever the dart landed. Upon arrival, Hartman would find a phonebook, and choosing a name at random, would try to find a person who would agree to be interviewed and tell their "story". Hartman traveled around the country, from Hawaii to Alaska, from Buckhannon, West Virginia to Miami, Florida. From its inception in 1998, the series produced 123 stories.
In 2010, Hartman took the series worldwide, when with assistance of NASA, each "Everybody in the World Has a Story" segment featured an astronaut in the International Space Station spinning a globe and pointing to random locations for Hartman to travel and find a story.
On the Road
Hartman's "Assignment America" reports were part of the CBS Evening News With Katie Couric; they were inspired by Charles Kuralt's On the Road series, which originally aired on CBS from 1967 to 1980. In 2011, CBS revived On the Road, with Hartman providing the Friday evening end-pieces for the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. The series won two 2013 Edward R. Murrow Awards (presented by the Radio Television Digital News Association) for the CBS Evening News. Three of Hartman's stories won in the Best Writing category.
Personal life
Hartman lives with is wife, Andrea, and their three children in Catskill, New York. One of his children has autism.
Awards
In 2002 Hartman has received an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, by the Columbia Journalism School, for the Everybody has a Story series.
He has also received an Emmy Award for writing and four RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Awards, including three consecutive citations for Best Writing.