Josh Fine is an award-winning investigative journalist and producer with 30 years of experience at a range of outlets, including CBS News’ "60 Minutes," the Investigative Unit for ABC News’ "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," and HBO’s "CostasNow" and "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel."
Fine was the senior reporter and a producer on "The Lords of the Rings," a 77-minute investigative report on the International Olympic Committee. The segment won an Emmy, the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Award for best television segment of the year (first time it was awarded to a sports segment), an Overseas Press Club Award and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.
Fine's report on Qatar’s questionable methods and abusive practices for achieving prominence in world sport also received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and an Overseas Press Club Award (first time they awarded a sports piece). The OPC called it “enterprise reporting at its best.”
Fine's investigative series on Vladimir Putin and sport was nominated for three Emmy Awards and helped "Real Sports" win a George Foster Peabody Award for “television excellence and meritorious public service.” The Peabody Award committee said the Russia piece “laid bare the shocking negligence that led to a plane crash that killed 40 members of one of Russia’s top hockey squads.”
The Peabody committee also cited Fine's piece on the NCAA’s treatment of college athletes, part of an eight-part series that highlighted deficient medical care, poor academic standards, abusive coaches, and the long-term health impacts and financial costs of being an NCAA athlete.
Fine’s segment on the changing face of football in America was the first to demonstrate, with data, that while the concussion crisis is leading financially comfortable families to flee the sport, the poor are participating at a record rate. The IRE Awards Committee, upon conferring the piece an award, wrote, “we applaud the gutsy approach this team used to statistically analyze which communities are still playing tackle football and analyze the makeup of the team from a racial and socioeconomic perspective. This groundbreaking research advanced the conversation surrounding CTE exposure in a meaningful way and revealed the impact on an at-risk community.”
Fine’s segment on the NFL’s disability system was called “must-see television for anyone who cares about the game” by the Washington Post and led to Congressional hearings and a change in NFL policy.
Prior to HBO, Fine was an associate producer for Mike Wallace at CBS News’ "60 Minutes" where he helped produce interviews with PLO President Yasser Arafat, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
In 2025 Josh was one of Syracuse University’s Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship’s inaugural fellows. He’s a former term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and a current member of the Board of Governors of the Overseas Press Club. He earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan.
