ABC News has announced the promotion of three multiplatform reporters: Melissa Adan, Morgan Norwood and Christiane Cordero.
L-R: Melissa Adan, Morgan Norwood and Christiane Cordero
What’s Happening:
- Melissa Adan has joined ABC News in Los Angeles as a multiplatform reporter, where she will continue to cover a wide range of stories across programs and platforms.
- Over the last year, Melissa has worked on NewsOne, ABC News Live and the weekend shows, where she’s covered the Super Bowl, the Lahaina wildfires and, most recently, The Oscars.
- Melissa joined ABC News from KNSD San Diego, where she was a general assignment news reporter.
- Prior to that, Melissa worked at WTVJ-TV South Florida, where she covered numerous breaking news events, including the mass shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport, Hurricane Irma, and the death of star MLB pitcher Josè Fernandèz.
- After starting her career with ABC News in Los Angeles, Morgan Norwood is continuing her work in New York, becoming a multiplatform reporter.
- In Los Angeles, she covered breaking news events, including Hurricane Ian, the Surfside Building Collapse, the Uvalde School Shooting, the Academy Awards, and the Super Bowl.
- From there, Morgan moved to New York, where she served as a reporter at both NYC’s No. 1 station, WABC-TV, and in the New York bureau of ABC News. There, she reported on Mississippi’s devastating tornadoes in Rolling Fork, Hurricane Ian, and the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine.
- Her reports have aired across programs and platforms, including World News Tonight with David Muir, the weekday and weekend editions of Good Morning America, and ABC News Live.
- Lastly, Christiane Cordero is joining ABC News as a multiplatform reporter in Washington, where she will report for all programs and platforms.
- Christiane comes from powerhouse ABC owned station KABC-TV Los Angeles, where she was a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor.
- Over the past few years, she has covered a wide range of stories, including reporting from the picket lines during the recent WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes, interviewing Rep. Adam Schiff after the Jan. 6 hearings, and reporting on Ukrainian refugees’ efforts to resettle in Los Angeles after fleeing their home country due to war.
- Christiane also co-hosted and reported from San Francisco Pride last summer alongside our own Devin Dwyer as part of the Pride Across America special on ABC News Live and Hulu.