Jaclyn Lee

Jaclyn Lee is a multiplatform reporter for ABC News.

Lee joined ABC News in 2023. Before then, she worked at WPVI in Philadelphia as an anchor/reporter. She reported on the front lines as COVID-19 unfolded, covering all aspects of its impact on the Delaware Valley. She also covered the 2020 presidential election, including Pennsylvania’s crucial role as a swing state and the unprecedented 2021 winter storm in Houston.

Prior to WPVI, Lee worked as a general assignment reporter and weekend evening anchor at WVEC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Norfolk, Virginia. There she sharpened her investigative skills, reporting from the Virginia State Capitol on the blackface scandal and sexual assault allegations against top state politicians. Lee also spearheaded investigations into crucial shortages of fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy, which caused officials to take action. Her work has also taken her around the globe, reporting on protestors against Machu Picchu tourism in Peru, the effort to preserve minority cultures in China, the large number of sea lions dying in Chile, as well as researching the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Lee holds a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.