Award-winning journalist, Steve Osunsami ’93 JOURN, has been nominated for a National Emmy award, in the category Best Story in a Regular Scheduled Newscast, for reporting on the police shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina.

Osunsami is a correspondent for ABC News and is based in Atlanta. He contributes reports to a number of ABC News broadcasts and platforms.

Illinois was well-represented at regional Emmy Award celebrations this year. Alumni received the following awards:

Mid-America Chapter (St. Louis and Kansas City area)

• Alison Davis Wood ’91 BS, ’11 MS
  UI Public affairs, writer, a documentary about Carlos Montezuma
• Laura Hettiger ’09 BS, ’10 MS
  KMOV-TV, St. Louis reporter, general assignment reporter, covering the Ferguson story
• Jim Kirchherr ’74 BS
  ​KETC-TV St. Louis, Health and Science programs and Environment program

Upper Midwest Chapter (Minneapolis area)