Sunny Hostin
Six-time Emmy® Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Sunny Hostin has been a co-host of ABC’s “The View” since 2016. Hostin previously served as a host and legal analyst at CNN, as well as a fill-in co-anchor for ABC News’ “World News Now” and “America This Morning.” In May 2021, Hostin released her debut novel, “Summer on the Bluffs” (William Morrow), which skyrocketed to No. 11 on The New York Times bestsellers list. The success of this book led to the continuation of her summer trilogy with the release of “Summer on Sag Harbor” on May 2, 2023, which also became an instant New York Times bestseller. The series was completed with the release of “Summer on Highland Beach” in the summer of 2024. In the fall of 2020, Hostin released her memoir, “I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds,” with HarperOne, featuring an introspective look into the challenges she faced while being raised by teenage parents in the Bronx housing projects, the many obstacles she overcame to become a federal prosecutor, and her ultimate path to becoming an incredibly successful television journalist.
Hostin is also the founder and CEO of Sunny Hostin Productions, a global multiplatform media company that produces and creates premium film and television content highlighting important social justice issues, meaningful stories and underrepresented groups. The company’s first project is to develop her novel, “Summer on the Bluffs,” as a dramatic series.
As a highly respected attorney and investigative journalist, Hostin has made a name for herself using her expertise in federal prosecution and true crime to bring a number of high-profile stories to light. In 2025, Hostin hosted “Diddy on Trial: As It Happened,” which debuted at No. 3 on Hulu. In 2021, she was part of the groundbreaking ABC primetime newscast “Soul of a Nation,” the first broadcast network newsmagazine aiming to put Black life in America front and center. Hostin moderated a provocative recurring conversational segment called “In the Kitchen,” where a group of talkers and thinkers joined her for a candid discussion on current events. In 2019, she hosted and executive-produced the six-episode documentary series “Truth About Murder with Sunny Hostin” for Investigation Discovery, which explored some of the most infamous homicides in the nation.
After graduating from Notre Dame Law School, Hostin began her career as an appellate law clerk and went on to become a trial attorney and a federal prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice. During her time as an assistant U.S. attorney, she was awarded the Special Achievement Award by Attorney General Janet Reno for her prosecution of child sexual predators.
A gifted storyteller, Hostin brings impressive depth of knowledge to politics and the criminal justice system. She has brought clarity and context to some of the biggest stories of the past decade, including incisive political analysis of Trump’s 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns and subsequent presidencies; the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol; the Derek Chauvin trial and verdict; the college admission scandal; the George Zimmerman trial; the unrest in Ferguson and Baltimore; and the AME church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. Hostin has won two Emmys for her work as a correspondent for ABC’s “Good Morning America,” one for her work as a correspondent for the ABC News special “The President and the People,” and two for her work hosting ABC’s special event coverage of New York City’s 2023, 2024 and 2025 Puerto Rican Day Parade.
Hostin currently resides in New York with her husband Manny and two children
