Steve Osunsami

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 with Charles Gibson" and other ABC News broadcasts and platforms. Osunsami began his network career at ABC News in April 1997, as a correspondent for NewsOne, ABC's affiliate news service.

In 1998, Osunsami began filing reports for "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," primarily covering the southeastern U.S. Among his most recent assignments, Osunsami covered Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath of the devastating storm. He continues to file regular reports on the rebuilding and recovery efforts in New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities. Osunsami has 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, 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, Osunsami was recognized several times with awards from the Associated Press and the Michigan Association of Broadcasters.

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.

Osunsami is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he studied broadcast journalism. He was born in Washington, D.C. to Nigerian immigrants.