Steve Scully

Steve Scully
Senior Fellow

A native of Erie, Pennsylvania, Steve Scully is currently the host of “The Briefing with Steve Scully on Sirius XM,” serves as a Senior Fellow at the Former Members of Congress Association and is a Senior Strategic Advisor to the Bipartisan Policy Center.  In June he was appointed to the University of Southern California Annenberg School as a Visiting Fellow for the Center for Communication Leadership & Policy.  Since 2010 he has served as chairman of the Jefferson Educational Society global summit, the premier policy conference in Northwestern Pennsylvania.  He has brought in leading figures in politics, academia and journalism, including President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Rep. Liz Cheney, NPR’s Cokie Roberts, Fox News Political Analyst Karl Rove, historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Doug Brinkley, PBS’ Judy Woodruff, CBS’ John Dickerson, and a long list of other experts in their field. He is the former Senior Vice President at the Bipartisan Policy Center, and prior to that served as C-SPAN's Senior Executive Producer and Political Editor for three decades.  During his time at C-SPAN, he conducted nearly 8,000 interviews, launched a number of signature programs and interviewed every U.S.  president from Ford to Trump.  He served as a member of the White House Correspondents’ Association for 9 years, including WHCA President.  In 2019 he was inducted to the Pennsylvania Broadcasters Hall of Fame.  His work covering every presidential campaign since 1992 has won multiple awards, including the Cable Ace and an Emmy.

He also served as an adjunct faculty member at a number of schools, including Purdue University, Pace University, University of Denver, University of Wisconsin and University of California-DC.  The 14th in a family of 16 children, he began his journalism career at WSEE-TV in his hometown, later working at WHEC-TV in Rochester, New York.  Steve is married to Kathryn Reim, a Fairview, PA native, and is the father of four children (Mary Cathryn, Cristen, Daniel and Natalie,) the youngest of whom was adopted. Two others died as infants, Carolyn in 1994 of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and Jack, in 1996, as a stillbirth.  He serves on the board of directors of the CJ Foundation for SIDS and First Candle.  He earned his undergraduate degree at American University (1982) and a Master of Science at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism (1985.)