Steve Hartman

Steve Hartman has been a CBS News correspondent since 1996. Hartman 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 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.

Hartman’s stories are also used in tens of thousands of classrooms to teach kindness and character as part of his “Kindness 101” initiative.

Hartman’s film project, “All the Empty Rooms,” won the Oscar for best short documentary in 2026. The film followed Hartman and still photographer Lou Bopp as they travelled the country documenting the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings.
Hartman is also known for his series, “Everybody Has a Story.” He proved the adage by tossing a dart at a map of America and then randomly picking an interview subject from the local phone book. Debuting in 1998 and continuing for the next seven years, Hartman produced more than 120 profiles of everyday Americans.

Hartman has won dozens of prestigious broadcast journalism awards. Most notably, he has received an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, five national Emmy awards and 21 national Edward R. Murrow awards, including a record 12 citations for best writing.

Previously Hartman was a columnist for 60 Minutes Wednesday and 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 at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles (1994-98), WABC-TV in New York (1991-94) and KSTP-TV in Minneapolis (1987-91). He began his career in broadcast journalism at WTOL-TV in Toledo, Ohio as a news intern and general assignment reporter (1984-87).
Hartman graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1985 with a degree in broadcast journalism. He is married with three children and lives in upstate New York.

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