Linsey Davis
Linsey Davis is currently an anchor for “ABC News Live Prime,” ABC News’ award-winning streaming evening newscast, and weekend “World News Tonight” on Sundays. She is a correspondent filing reports for “World News Tonight,” “Good Morning America,” “20/20” and “Nightline.”
Davis has conducted powerful exclusive interviews with celebrities, major influential figures, politicians and health officials, including Jonathan Majors, after he was convicted of one misdemeanor assault charge and one harassment violation at the end of 2023; Boris Johnson, shortly after he left his position as prime minister; the victims who suffered abuse at the hands of Larry Ray at Sarah Lawrence University; Shelley Lynn Thornton, also known as Baby Roe, the daughter of Jane Roe; Kevin Strickland, a wrongfully convicted Missouri man who was released from prison after 43 years; Myon Burrell, a Minneapolis inmate who said he was wrongfully convicted for murder; and Nick Cannon, discussing his journey towards atonement, education and self-improvement after making antisemitic comments and espousing conspiracy theories. Davis also got the only interview with comedian Bill Cosby in the wake of dozens of sexual assault allegations.
Davis’ additional interviewees include Vice President Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Mike Pence, Karen Pence, Ron Desantis, Nikki Haley, Mike Johnson, Beto O’Rourke, Wes Moore, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Herschel Walker, Sen. Raphael Warnock, Kanye West, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Anita Hill, Bill Gates, Dionne Warwick, Huma Abedin, Dave Grohl, Billy Porter, nearly two dozen senators from both sides of the aisle and dozens of House representatives. Leading up to the 2016 Iowa caucuses, she interviewed the spouses of seven presidential candidates as part of a series called “Running Mates.”
Davis helped lead the ABC News coverage of the 2022 midterm elections and was at the forefront of ABC News’ coverage of the 2020 presidential election, spanning all eight nights of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. She co-anchored major political events, such as two presidential debates, presidential election coverage and Inauguration Day. Showcasing her tough but fair moderating skills at ABC News’ Democratic presidential debates in September 2019 and February 2020, Davis held candidates accountable on topics of racial inequality and other key issues.
Most recently, Davis investigated the Los Angeles County juvenile correctional facilities where there were allegations by nearly 3,000 people who claim they were sexually abused or assaulted by guards and probation officers. For this investigation, Davis sat down with previous LA County Juveniles who were victims of probation officers.
Davis has covered news stories around the globe, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the Las Vegas massacre, the Harvey Weinstein allegations and subsequent #MeToo movement, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Nairobi Mall massacre and several of President Obama’s trips overseas. Her coverage ranges from presidential elections to social injustice and various natural disasters, including the earthquake in Haiti and multiple hurricanes.
Davis joined ABC News as a New York-based correspondent for ABC NewsOne, the network’s affiliate news service. Before joining the network in June 2007, Davis was anchor of the weekend evening newscasts at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis. She started out as a reporter in 2003 and, during her time there, reported from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Torino for the 2006 Winter Olympics and Athens for the 2004 Summer Olympics. From 2001-2003, she was a reporter at WJRT-TV, the ABC Owned Television Station in Flint, Michigan.
Davis has received several honors for her reporting, including two Emmy® Awards, a duPont-Columbia Award and a regional Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2023, “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis” won the Gracie Award for Best National News Program and a Front-Page Award for the feature “Water Warriors.” In 2022, she also won an On-Air Talent, News Magazine Gracie Award.
Davis is the bestselling author of six books, including The New York Times bestsellers “Girls of the World” (March 2024) and “The Smallest Spot of a Dot” (January 2023), and the titles “How High Is Heaven” (February 2022), “Stay This Way Forever” (February 2021), “The World Is Awake” (February 2019) and “One Big Heart” (August 2019).
Davis earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Virginia and a Master of Arts degree in communications from New York University.
