Steven Portnoy
Encyclopedia
Steven Portnoy is a Washington, DC-based national radio correspondent
for ABC News
, covering US politics, legal affairs, advances in science
and technology
and breaking stories for the network. He also was a regular host of Ahead of the Curve, a technology-based talk show on ABC News Now
, the network's 24/7 digital TV platform.
While a student at the S.I. Newhouse School for Public Communications at Syracuse University
, Portnoy reported for WSYR (AM)
and produced at WSTM-TV
and WIXT-TV (now WSYR-TV
). In 2001, he took first place at the Hearst Journalism Awards for his reporting on the economic downturn in the early part of the decade.
Prior to joining ABC News in 2006, Portnoy reported for WMAL-AM, a Washington radio station that was owned by ABC until 2007.
In 2008, Portnoy was named a Peter Jennings
Fellow at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. He has since won several local and regional awards and shared in a national Edward R. Murrow award for spot news coverage in 2007.
Correspondent
A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator, or more general speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign...
for ABC News
ABC News
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
, covering US politics, legal affairs, advances in science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
and breaking stories for the network. He also was a regular host of Ahead of the Curve, a technology-based talk show on ABC News Now
ABC News Now
ABC News Now is an American 24-hour news channel offered via digital television, broadband and streaming video at ABCNews.com and on mobile phones. It delivers breaking news, headline news each half hour, and wide range of entertainment and lifestyle programs. The channel is currently available in...
, the network's 24/7 digital TV platform.
While a student at the S.I. Newhouse School for Public Communications at Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
, Portnoy reported for WSYR (AM)
WSYR (AM)
WSYR is a 5,000 watt radio station licensed to Syracuse, New York. Owned and operated by Clear Channel Communications, it broadcasts a talk radio format under the moniker "Newsradio 106.9 WSYR." It was previously billed as "Newsradio 570 WSYR" until it became a simulcast with WPHR-FM in January...
and produced at WSTM-TV
WSTM-TV
WSTM-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Central New York State licensed to Syracuse. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter on Sentinel Heights Road in LaFayette. The station can also be seen on Verizon FiOS channel 3 and Time Warner channel 4...
and WIXT-TV (now WSYR-TV
WSYR-TV
WSYR-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Central New York State that is licensed to Syracuse. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 17 from a transmitter on Sevier Road in Pompey. The station can also be seen on Time Warner channel 9 and in high definition on...
). In 2001, he took first place at the Hearst Journalism Awards for his reporting on the economic downturn in the early part of the decade.
Prior to joining ABC News in 2006, Portnoy reported for WMAL-AM, a Washington radio station that was owned by ABC until 2007.
In 2008, Portnoy was named a Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...
Fellow at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. He has since won several local and regional awards and shared in a national Edward R. Murrow award for spot news coverage in 2007.