{{short description|American journalist}} <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:Steve_centanni.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Photo of Steve Centanni reporting for the [[Fox News Channel]].]] --> {{Infobox person | name = Steve Centanni | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_name = Steven James Centanni | alias = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | body_discovered = | education = | occupation = News reporter | spouse = | partner = | known_for = [[2006 Fox journalists kidnapping|Being kidnapped and held hostage]] }} '''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 [[petroleum|oil]] terminals located {{convert|22|mi|km}} off [[Iraq]]'s southern coast, preventing them from being blown up by Iraqi forces.<ref name="FNC_bio">{{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 }}</ref>
Previous to Fox, Centanni had worked for [[KRON-TV]] in [[San Francisco, California]].
Centanni retired in August 2014.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==Education== Centanni attended the [[University of Colorado at Boulder]] and earned a [[Bachelor's degree]] in broadcasting from [[San Francisco State University]].<ref name="FNC_bio"/>
==Gaza kidnapping== {{Main|2006 Fox journalists kidnapping}} <!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Steve olaf highres2.png|right|thumb|320px|Screenshot of Steve Centanni (right) and Olaf Wiig (left) in tape released after capture]] --> 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.<ref name=AP_demand>{{cite web|title=New Group Claims Fox News Kidnappings|publisher=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref><ref name=BBC_demand>{{cite news|title=Gaza militants claim Fox kidnap|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=August 23, 2006|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5278726.stm | date=August 23, 2006}}</ref> On August 27, the [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian]] news service Ramattan and FOX News reported that Centanni and Wiig were released unharmed.<ref name="release">{{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}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== 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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