ABC Audio Adds Steven Portnoy as National Correspondent

RADIO ONLINE | Wednesday, July 12, 2023 | 11:42am CT

Steven Portnoy

Steven Portnoy is returning to ABC News as national correspondent for ABC News Radio. He will join the ranks of its political team based in Washington, DC. Portnoy has over two decades of reporting on politics and breaking news. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Bayliss Horizon Award and multiple Edward R. Murrow, National Headliner and New York Festivals Awards. He also served as president of the White House Correspondents' Association from 2021 to 2022.

Portnoy first joined ABC News in 2002 as an intern for the White House unit of "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings." In 2006, he was named Washington correspondent for ABC News Radio, providing coverage of the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections and the 2011 death of Osama bin Laden. tHe previously served as White House correspondent for CBS News Radio, covering the Trump and Biden administrations, as well as the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections and the January 6 insurrection.

To quote Steven's 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner speech, "We journalists are inheritors of a public trust. We're the guardians of the people's right to know what their government is doing in their name with their money. We are the questioners ... so that government officials may be made to explain their views and defend their actions for posterity and for the whole free world to see."