Steve Crump was an American journalist, documentary film producer and television reporter for WBTV. He was born in 1957 in Louisville Smoketown neighbourhood.
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He graduated from Louisville’s Trinity High School and Eastern Kentucky University. Crump was known for his regional Emmy Awards for stories ranging from apartheid in South Africa to civil rights in the American South.
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He also has earned several other awards including four national Headliner Awards, the Gabriel Award and more than a dozen first-place honours from the National Association of Black Journalists, as well as organisations like Sigman Delta Chi and Sister Cities International.
Crump was named the 2016 Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Crump also worked for news stations in Orlando Florida, Lexington, Kentucky and Detriot, Michigan, as well as an independent producer for Charlotte’s WTVI, BET, and Charlotte’s PBS affiliate before coming to WBTV.
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