Simone Swink
Simone Swink is the senior executive producer of ABC News’ flagship “Good Morning America” franchise, where she oversees 4.5 hours of programming, including “Good Morning America” co-anchored by Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos and Michael Strahan, as well as “GMA3” and the network’s overnight news programs “World News Now” and “Good Morning America First Look.”
Swink joined “Good Morning America” in 2010 as a writer, as well as a senior broadcast producer and executive broadcast producer overseeing the 8 a.m. hour until being named executive producer in 2021. Swink was part of the Emmy® Award-winning team that led “GMA” to No. 1 and has since played a key role in solidifying the broadcast as America’s most-watched morning newscast.
Her television career began at ABC News’ Washington, D.C., bureau, where she was a production coordinator for “Nightline” and “This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts.” She later helped launch the National Geographic Channel’s evening newscast, served as a field and tape producer on the launches of Jane Pauley and Martha Stewart’s daytime talk shows and covered the Asian and American financial markets for Bloomberg. When she returned to ABC News, she joined the long-form unit, covering NASCAR for “NASCAR in Primetime.”
Swink was named one of Variety’s New York Women of Impact in 2023. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a bachelor’s degree in history and also studied 20th-century European politics, economy and literature at Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.