Steve Hartman

Restoring Faith in Humanity: Stories to Cure What Ails Us

We have always used collective action to elevate our stories. Our patients, our profession, and our communities depend on the strength of our advocacy. Storytelling is at the heart of our vision. As we reflect on the past, we must drive toward a better future by steering knowledge and passion into powerful action. We would like our convention members to create—and share—inspiring stories from the moments that changed them as individuals, union activists, labor movement leaders, and health care leader.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At completion of this session, the participant will be able to:

1. Identify the steps in creating a compelling story.
2. Describe how storytelling and collective action work together to build our strength and advocacy. 
3. Identify ways to create inspiring stories from our healthcare experiences that move our members to action.

Steve Hartman has been a CBS News correspondent since 1998, having served as a part-time correspondent the previous two vears.
 
Hartman brings viewers 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 often used in schools. Thousands of teachers across the country use them for lessons on empathy, honesty, fortitude, courage, etc. In addition, with the help of his own children (Meryl and Emmett), Hartman has produced "Kindness 101" segments on these themes for CBS Mornings.
 
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 such pieces. In 2010, Hartman reprised the series on a global scale. In partnership with NASA, each "Everybody in the World Has a Story" segment began with an astronaut in the International Space Station spinning a globe and pointing to random locations for Hartman to travel and find a story.

In 2020, Hartman cofounded "Taps Across America" - which has become a Memorial Day tradition. Every year at 3PM, thousands of buglers and trumpet players stand on their porches and patios to play taps in commemoration of the holiday. Hartman was inspired by a story he did in 2013 on a man who played taps every night on his balcony.

Hartman has won dozens of prestigious broadcast journalism awards for his work. He has received an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, four national Emmy awards and 14 RTNDA/Edward R Murrow awards, including a record eleven citations for best writing.

Previously Hartman was a columnist for 60 Minutes Wednesday and was a 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, the CBS owned station 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 Catskill, New York.