Ike Ejiochi

Ike Ejiochi is a correspondent based in New York, reporting for ABC News Live, “Prime,” “Good Morning America,” “GMA3,” “Nightline” and ABC Audio. He joined ABC News in 2021 as a multiplatform reporter.

Ejiochi has reported on top stories, including the “Nightline” special “Swimming While Black” and the trial for Derek Chauvin, the police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd.

Ejiochi provided on-the-ground reporting for the strongest Category 5 hurricane in Jamaican history, Hurricane Melissa in October 2025, covering landfall, relief operations and the ongoing community recovery across the island. He also reported on the ground on the 2021 deadly tornadoes in Paducah, Kentucky.

Ejiochi had a cultural conversation with Sean Bankhead and Laurieann Gibson — choreographers who have worked with Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys, Dixie Chicks, Clay Aiken, Brandy and Beyonce — about rising through the ranks of dance as Black artists, which ran on ABC News Live, “GMA3” and Hulu.

He was nominated for an Emmy® for “Swimming While Black” and won the National Edward R. Murrow Award as part of ABC News Radio. He also won a local Emmy Award for his coverage of Denver Smith, a Southern University student who was fatally shot by police during a campus protest in 1972, a case that became a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement.

Ejiochi was inducted into Quinnipiac University’s Hall of Fame Class of 2025 for his contributions to broadcast journalism.

Before joining ABC News, Ejiochi was a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at WTTG in Washington, where he covered important stories ranging from the insurrection at the Capitol, Black Lives Matter protests, and the impact of COVID-19. Before WTTG, he was a reporter for WTIC in Hartford, Connecticut, and a reporter for KODE in Joplin, Missouri.