ESPN signs reporter Steele to new, multiyear contract

While continuing her role as a Chicago-based general assignment reporter, Michele Steele has signed a new, multiyear contract with ESPN.

Steele has been with ESPN now for more than 8 years, and has covered numerous versatile stories for SportsCenter, NFL Live, Outside the Lines and ESPN’s digital platforms. She has also served as studio host, anchoring SportsCenter and OTL, while also conducting features for those programs.

Steele said:

“The core of what I do is original reporting, adding texture and depth to the games that we all love. I pride myself in my ability to find and tell original stories that not only challenge us to think – but ask us to feel.

“In a time where we are physically apart from each other, sharing stories that speak to our connections as fans takes on an even greater role,” she said. “While we may live our lives very differently in 2020, the things that bind us never went away.”

Previously, she has also served as anchor/reporter at Bloomberg Television and was a journalist at Forbes Magazine, pitching and reporting original reports on technology and auto industry among other tasks.

Steele is a B.A. in economics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a M.S. in broadcast journalism from Columbia University – Graduate School of Journalism.