Reena Roy

Reena Roy is an Emmy®-nominated multiplatform reporter for ABC News based in New York. Since she started with ABC in June of 2020, she’s covered a wide range of national stories, including the Buffalo mass shooting, the Mayfield Kentucky tornadoes, the Derek Chauvin and Kyle Rittenhouse trials, the Surfside Florida condo collapse, and Joe Biden’s election victory in Delaware. She’s also done longer-form original pieces on the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation in Florida, children’s safety in the metaverse, and the neurological effects of screen time during the pandemic.

Previously, Roy was a general assignment reporter for CBS New York, covering top stories all over the tri-state area, including crime, politics, breaking news and original stories. She covered the Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein trials and was nominated for an Emmy for her live coverage of the port authority bomber in 2017. Some of her original reporting inspired change in the communities she covered, leading officials to take action on the problems exposed after demanding answers from those responsible.

Roy began her career at News 12 in the Bronx/Brooklyn, where she was a one-man-band reporter — writing, shooting and editing her own stories. She graduated with honors from New York University with a double major in journalism and Spanish language/Latin American studies.

In her free time, she loves to cook, work out and explore New York City,which has been home for 14 years.