Matt Rivers

Matt Rivers is an ABC News correspondent based in Mexico City. Rivers has covered breaking news around the world, and his reporting has been featured on “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” “ABC News Live Prime” and “ABC News Live.”

Most recently, Rivers reported from the ground in Israel and spent weeks in Ukraine during the early months of the Russian invasion. Rivers covered tear-gassed protesters during the Hong Kong protests, grilled officials during the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar, interviewed countless families during the tsunami that killed tens of thousands in Indonesia and walked part of the Darien Gap with migrants in Colombia.

Before joining ABC News, Rivers worked at CNN for 10 years, covering a variety of important stories, including the COVID-19 pandemic, where he spent months on the ground in remote corners of Brazil. He was also the first international journalist on the ground in Haiti after the president was assassinated.

While at CNN, Rivers reported from the Beijing bureau, covering key stories impacting Asia Pacific, including the trade war between the U.S. and China, the protests in Hong Kong, the legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan and the relationship between former President Donald Trump’s administration and China. Before working at CNN, Rivers reported for Philadelphia’s KYW, San Antonio’s KSAT and El Paso’s KTSM.

Rivers has received a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award and multiple Emmy® Award nominations.

He is the son of a police officer and a public school teacher from New Jersey and is married to his college sweetheart, with whom he just had his first child.