Steve Hartman has been a CBS News correspondent since 1998, having served as a part-time correspondent for the previous two years. His multiple award-winning feature series, "Everybody Has a Story," is unique in broadcast journalism.
By tossing a dart at a map of America and then randomly picking a name from a local phone book, Hartman proves the adage at every stop. Since "Story's" debut in 1998, he has produced more than 120 such pieces. They are broadcast on the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH DAN RATHER and THE EARLY SHOW.
Hartman also serves as an columnist for 60 MINUTES II.
He has won many prestigious broadcast journalism awards for his work: an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, an Emmy Award for writing and four RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Awards, including three consecutive citations for Best Writing.
Previously, Hartman was a correspondent for two primetime CBS News magazines, "Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel" (1997-98) and "Coast to Coast" (1996-97).
Before that, he was a feature reporter for KCBS-TV, the CBS Owned station in Los Angeles (1994-98). His daily segment on the KCBS early evening newscast looked at offbeat stories and personalities in Southern California and earned him numerous awards.
Hartman also was a feature reporter for WABC-TV New York (1991-94) and KSTP TV Minneapolis (1987 91). He began his career in broadcast journalism at WTOL TV Toledo, Ohio, as a news intern and general assignment reporter (1984 87).
All told, Hartman has collected nearly two dozen local Emmy Awards for writing, reporting and editing.
He was born April 14, 1963, in Toledo. Hartman was graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism. He lives in New York.