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Major: Communication
Current Title: National Correspondent, ABC News
Ike Ejiochi is an Emmy Award-winning national correspondent for ABC News, where he covers a wide range of stories, including politics, crime, weather, and breaking news. Since joining ABC News in 2021, he has been featured on ABC News Live, ABC News Live Prime, Good Morning America, GMA 3: What You Need to Know, Nightline, and ABC Radio. He has reported on top stories, including the Nightline special “Swimming While Black,” about the first Black-owned swim club in Philadelphia, for which he was nominated for a national Emmy Award, and the trial for Derek Chauvin, the police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, among others. Ike won an local Emmy Award for a story about Denver Smith, the first unarmed Black man who was shot by police on camera. His story helped move the civil rights movement forward. In addition, he won the National Edward R. Murrow Award in 2021 as a part of ABC News Radio. Before joining ABC News, Ike was a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at WTTG in Washington, where he covered important stories that ranged from the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to Black Lives Matter protest and the impact of COVID-19. Before WTTG, he was a reporter for WTIC in Hartford.
Proudest Professional Accomplishment: “My proudest accomplishment to date would be my first story I wrote for Nightline, which gave me my first national Emmy nomination. It was a story about the first Black-owned swim club in the country; it helped shape the lives of so many Black Americans, including Cullen Jones, an Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer”
WP Pride. “There was one moment that I will never forget. I was unsure about my future in television news and whether or not I’d be successful. If not for the encouragement of Loretta McLaughlin Vignier and the rest of the faculty pushing me and reminding me that I had all the skills needed to succeed, I don’t think I would be where I am now.”
