Steve Centanni
{{short description|American journalist}}
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Steven James "Steve" Centanni is an American former news reporter for Fox News Channel.
Journalism career
Centanni joined FNC in 1996.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, he served as an embedded journalist with the Navy SEALs and provided numerous first reports for the network, including a report that the U.S. had captured two main offshore oil terminals located {{convert|22|mi|km}} off Iraq's southern coast, preventing them from being blown up by Iraqi forces.{{cite news|title=Fox News Bio Steve Centanni |publisher=Fox News Channel |access-date=August 15, 2006 |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1182,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051219142456/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1182,00.html |archive-date=December 19, 2005 }}
Previous to Fox, Centanni had worked for KRON-TV in San Francisco, California.
Centanni retired in August 2014.{{Cite web | url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/fox-news-correspondent-steve-centanni-is-retiring/235622 | title=Fox News Correspondent Steve Centanni is Retiring| date=6 August 2014}}
Education
Centanni attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and earned a Bachelor's degree in broadcasting from San Francisco State University.
Gaza kidnapping
{{Main|2006 Fox journalists kidnapping}}
On August 14, 2006, he was kidnapped by Palestinian gunmen while on assignment in Gaza City, along with Olaf Wiig, a cameraman from New Zealand, with a group calling itself the Holy Jihad Brigades claiming responsibility.{{cite web|title=New Group Claims Fox News Kidnappings|publisher=Associated Press}}{{cite news|title=Gaza militants claim Fox kidnap|publisher=BBC|access-date=August 23, 2006|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5278726.stm | date=August 23, 2006}} On August 27, the Palestinian news service Ramattan and FOX News reported that Centanni and Wiig were released unharmed.{{cite news|title=Kidnapped Fox journalists released|publisher=CNN|access-date=August 27, 2006|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/27/fox.journalists/index.html}}
References
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External links
{{Wikinews|Two Fox News journalists kidnapped in Gaza | Deadline to release Muslim prisoners passes, Gaza-held journalists released}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20051219142456/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1182,00.html Bio on FoxNews.com]
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Category:2000s missing person cases
Category:American television reporters and correspondents
Category:Formerly missing American people
Category:Journalists from California
Category:Kidnapped American people
Category:Kidnappings by Islamists