American broadcast journalist
Steve Hartman
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Born
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1963-04-13
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April 13, 1963
(age 61)
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Education
| Bowling Green State University
(BA)
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Occupations
| - Journalist
- news presenter
- reporter and correspondent
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Years active
| 1987?present
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Notable credits
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Spouse
| Andrea
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Children
| 3
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Stephen Robert Hartman
(born April 14, 1963) is an American broadcast journalist. Hartman earned a degree in broadcast journalism at
Bowling Green State University
, graduating in 1985. Hartman lives with his wife, Andrea, and their three children in
Catskill, New York
.
[1]
[2]
One of his children has
autism
.
[3]
Hartman is an
Eagle Scout
.
[4]
Career
From 1984?87, he served as an intern and general assignment reporter for
WTOL
in
Toledo, Ohio
.
[5]
From 1987 to 1991, 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 to 1998, he served as a feature reporter for
KCBS-TV
in Los Angeles,
[6]
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).
[5]
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
.
[6]
Hartman got the idea from newspaper reporter David Johnson of the
Lewiston [Idaho] Morning Tribune
. He first tried a few stories on
Public Eye
.
[7]
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".
[8]
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.
[5]
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.
[8]
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.
[9]
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.
[10]
[11]
Kindness 101
Steve Hartman has been featuring
Kindness 101
, inspiring stories about goodness, kindness, compassion, appearing on
CBS Evening News
.
[12]
[13]
Awards
In 2002 Hartman received an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award from the Columbia Journalism School, for the
Everybody has a Story
series.
[14]
He has received four Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), including three consecutive citations for Best Writing. In 2011 he was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast, from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
[8]
References
- ^
Hartman, Steve
(May 1, 2015).
"Man's Wikipedia crusade turns him into grammar hero"
.
CBS News
. Retrieved
May 3,
2015
.
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Hartman, Steve
(August 14, 2015).
"I have a weed addiction"
.
CBS News
. Retrieved
July 21,
2017
.
- ^
Hartman, Steve (August 25, 2017).
"A father's view when the heavens align for the eclipse"
.
CBS News
.
- ^
Hartman, Steve (January 10, 2020).
"How a DNA test revealed the family I never knew"
.
CBS Evening News
. CBS News
. Retrieved
January 11,
2020
.
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a
b
c
Post, Paul (March 17, 2012).
"CBS's Steve Hartman has a story, too"
.
The Saratogian
.
- ^
a
b
"Steve Hartman"
.
cbsnews.com
. May 10, 2016
. Retrieved
November 9,
2020
.
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Geisler, Jill (March 2, 2011).
"Everybody Has a Story"
.
Poynter
. The Poynter Institute. Archived from
the original
on December 3, 2013
. Retrieved
December 3,
2013
.
- ^
a
b
c
"Steve Hartman bio"
.
CBS News
.
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O'Connell, Michael (October 28, 2011).
"CBS News Revives 'On the Road' Franchise with Steve Hartman, Statue of Liberty"
.
Hollywood Reporter
.
- ^
"CBS News wins seven Edward R. Murrow Awards"
.
CBS News
. June 13, 2013.
- ^
"2013 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners"
.
RTDNA
.
- ^
"Kindness 101 with Steve Hartman"
.
CBS News
.
- ^
"CBS News' Steve Hartman, Children Team Up To Teach 'Kindness 101'
"
. Retrieved
August 26,
2020
.
- ^
"duPont-Columbia Award Winners"
.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
. Archived from
the original
on August 14, 2012
. Retrieved
August 14,
2012
.
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