PERSON: Steve Scully

Senior Executive Producer

Steven L. Scully (born September 17, 1960) is an American broadcast journalist. He is the host of “The Briefing with Steve Scully” on SiriusXM POTUS 124 and contributor to Hill.com & Senior Vice President at the Bipartisan Policy Center. In July 2024, he was named a Senior Fellow at the University of California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - Center on Communications Leadership and Policy. He is the former C-SPAN Political Editor, as well as former host and producer for its morning call-in show Washington Journal, “Washington Today” on C-SPAN Radio and The Weekly, C-SPAN’s podcast. Scully served on the board of the White House Correspondents Association for nine years, including as president from 2006 to 2007.

According to Politico, Scully is known in the media for his “evenhandedness”. He was the 2009 recipient of the Fitzwater Center for Communications Award, for exemplary journalism and public service, and in the same year was recognized by The Washingtonian as one of the capital’s “50 Top Journalists”. John Oliver has repeatedly referred to Scully as “The Most Patient Man on Television” in recurring segments of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, mainly for hosting calls from audibly erratic/conspiracy theory-believing callers. Scully was inducted into the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2019.

>> Wikipedia