Steve Hartman Biography

Steve Hartman is an award winning journalist who has been a CBS News correspondent since 1996. He shares moving stories about the extraordinary people he meets in his weekly feature segment “On the Road,” which airs Fridays on the “CBS Evening News” and repeats on “CBS News Sunday Morning.” “On the Road” is modeled after the long-running series of the same name originally reported by America’s greatest TV storyteller, the late Charles Kuralt.

Steve Hartman Career

Moreover, Hartman stories are also used in thousands of classrooms around the world to teach kindness and character with the help of his own children, Meryl and Emmett, Hartman and family host “Kindness 101.” These segments air on “CBS Mornings.”

In 2020, he co-founded “Taps Across America” which has become a Memorial Day tradition. Every year at 3 p. m., thousands of buglers and trumpet players stand on their porches and patios to play taps in commemoration of the holiday. Hartman was inspired by a story he did in 2013 on a man who played taps every night on his balcony.

Furthermore, he 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 the 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, he 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.

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In 2010, he further 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.

In addition, he has received dozens of prestigious broadcast journalism awards for his work. Hartman has received various awards including in 2002 an Alfred I. DuPont from Columbia University School of Journalism for the Everybody has a Story series. Additionally, he is a recipient of four national Emmy awards and 14 Radio Television Digital News Association (RTNDA)/Edward R. Murrow awards, including a record 12 citations for best writing. In 2011, he further won an Emmy for Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast, from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Prior to joining CBS News, he was a columnist for “60 Minutes Wednesday” and correspondent for two primetime CBS News magazines, “Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel” for a year in 1997-1998 and “Coast to Coast” from 1996-1997. Before that he was a feature reporter at KCBS-TV, the CBS owned station in Los Angeles, California for four years from 1994-1998, WABC-TV in New York for three years from 1991-1994 and KSTP-TV in Minneapolis for four years from 1987-1991. He began his career in broadcast journalism at WTOL-TV in Toledo, Ohio as a news intern and general assignment reporter for almost three years from 1984-1987.

Hartman graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Bowling Green State University in 1985. He resides in Catskill, New York with his wife and three kids.

Steve Hartman Age

Hartman was born Stephen Robert Hartman in Toledo, Ohio on 13 April, 1963 and is now 61 years old as of 2024.

Steve Hartman Height

He stands at an average height of 5 feet 10 inches tall.

Steve Hartman Education

Hartman graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Bowling Green State University in 1985.

Steve Hartman Family

He was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. There is no information about his parents or siblings. However, will update as soon as the information is available.

Steve Hartman Wife

Hartman resides in Catskill, New York with his wife, Andrea.

Steve Hartman Children

He is a father of three children and one of his children has autism. Since 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hartman and his kids, Emmet and Meryl, have been sharing stories on “Kindness 101, ” capturing millions of hearts. Now, with the help of Drake University, the series is a curriculum in tens of thousands of schools.