Gina Sunseri, a Houston-based ABC Information Producer, obtained the distinguished 2024 House Communicator Award from the Rotary Nationwide Award for House Achievement (RNASA) Basis on April 26, 2024, on the Houston Hyatt Regency.
“Being in the identical firm as earlier honorees is actually humbling,” Sunseri mentioned in a press release. “I’ve at all times tried to make the area program partaking for our viewers—and to share the curiosity, arduous work, creativity, and keenness of the individuals who fulfill our want to discover. I’m fascinated by the small stories– the cat movies from area. The misplaced tomato. The astronaut who had spicy shrimp cocktail for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every single day of his mission. And naturally, Suni Williams’ chopping her ponytail in area for charity.”
A trusted fixture on the ABC Information area beat for greater than twenty years, Sunseri began protecting the area program in 1996 when certainly one of her earliest assignments was to cowl astronaut Shannon Lucid – the one American lady to reside aboard the Mir area station. Since then, Gina has produced or contributed to lots of of articles and broadcast information segments protecting House Shuttle launches, spacewalks, industrial area flight, the Worldwide House Station, 5 Mars missions, and the much-anticipated Artemis II mission scheduled to launch in 2025.
“For over twenty years, Gina Sunseri has set a excessive bar for excellent protection of our nation’s area applications, educating hundreds of thousands of
Individuals by way of her considerate and professional productions for ABC Information,” Mark Carreau, Aviation Week & House Know-how Houston Correspondent, and 2006 House Communicator Award recipient who nominated Sunseri mentioned.
“Her deep understanding of the area program is clear in tales that always present angles that different media miss,” Veronica McGregor, Digital Information and Media Supervisor for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and 2013 House Communicator Award recipient, mentioned. “Her dedication to protecting the area beat has benefitted the trade in addition to ABC and hundreds of thousands of viewers.”
After the tragic lack of the House Shuttle Columbia in 2003, Sunseri extensively lined the seven astronauts misplaced aboard STS-107, NASA’s investigation of the catastrophe, and the security measures applied earlier than the 2005 Return to Flight. She performed an important position within the ABC Information staff that earned an Emmy Award for his or her investigative report titled “Columbia Closing Mission,” which aired on “Primetime Thursday.”
When she’s not pursuing tales or conducting interviews, Sunseri enjoys journey, climate, music, and gardening. She is fortunately married to retired KPRC photographer John Treadgold and is a mom of two.
The RNASA House Communicator Award, established in 1997 in honor of KTRK, Houston Channel 13 area reporter and long-time RNASA Advisor Stephen Gauvain, who tragically died in a automobile accident in 1996, acknowledges people or groups for excellent contributions to public understanding and appreciation of area exploration.
Earlier recipients of the award embrace William Harwood of CBS; Miles O’Brien, previously of CNN; Elliot Pulham of the House Basis; the NASA-Contractor Communications staff that responded to the Columbia accident; Mark Carreau, previously of the Houston Chronicle; Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Hayden Planetarium on the American Museum of Pure Historical past; Veronica McGregor, Supervisor of Information and Social Media at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Chris A. Hadfield, former Canadian House Company astronaut; Invoice Nye (the science man), CEO of the Planetary Society; Rob Navias, Public Affairs Officer (PAO) Mission commentator; William Shatner, actor, creator, producer, and director; and Invoice Ingalls, senior NASA photographer.
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