Media - 2026

Steve Futterman is an award winning journalist who has been covering news and sports for more than 50 years. He has had an accomplished career as an international, national, and local reporter for various organizations including nearly 25 years as a CBS News Correspondent from 1998 to 2023. He has also had a long relationship since the 1980’s covering news and sports for CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) Radio and TV. Since 2023 he has become a regular contributor with National Public Radio. Over the years he has also reported for the BBC, NBC News, ABC News, Mutual Radio RTE and Reuters and KNX.

Although his career has been primarily a breaking news reporter, he has an enormous catalog of sports coverage too. He has covered 35 Super Bowls, 34 World Series along with a number of NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Finals. He has also reported on 21 Masters tournaments and Wimbledon championships. He has covered every Summer Olympics since 1984 and every Olympic Winter Games since 2002, including the recently completed Milan Olympics. He has covered three men’s World Cups and three Women’s World Cups. Steve covered Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaking Wilt Chamberlain’s all time scoring record in 1984. Then in 2023 he covered LeBron James break Kareem’s record.

From a sports news standpoint, he covered all three of the O.J. Simpson’s trials, the cycling doping probes of Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis, the death of Kobe Bryant and the Ohtani gambling probe. His news coverage has included the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, the 1991 Gulf War, the Oklahoma City bombing trials, the Michael Jackson trial, the Fukushima Tsunami, the election of Pope Francis, and the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. He has been honored with several Edward R. Murrow awards along with an award from the Overseas Press Club. He was recently awarded a Golden Mike by the Radio-Television News Association of Southern California for his coverage of the Palisades and Eaton fires. Steve was born and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Taft High in Woodland Hills and Cal State Northridge.