Seni Tienabeso is vice president of ABC News Live and specialized
units, leading management and editorial direction. Prior to this role,
he was ABC News Live’s first-ever executive director and was
responsible for all day-to-day editorial, content and programming on
America’s No. 1 streaming news channel. Before that position,
Tienabeso was the channel’s primetime executive producer, where he
created the most award-winning streaming newscast, ABC News Live’s
“Prime with Linsey Davis,” and oversaw all programming between 7
p.m. ET and midnight. He has led dozens of ABC News Live/Hulu
half-hour or one-hour specials and several ABC primetime specials.

Before his work in streaming, Tienabeso was a senior producer for
“World News Tonight with David Muir,” often overseeing the
program’s foreign and social justice stories and anchor-producing
the show when it would go on the road. During his tenure, he and the
team won an Emmy® and an Edward R. Murrow Award for their breaking
news coverage of Hurricane Michael.

Before “World News Tonight,” Tienabeso was based in Miami as a
multiple award-winning producer for ABC News. In this role, he
produced from six continents and 45 states. He covered virtually every
major breaking news story during this time, ranging from the 2016
presidential election to the 2014 Israel-Hamas war and the 2013 Boston
Marathon attack. He also led the network’s social justice coverage.

Tienabeso joined ABC News in 2007 as a producer at the ABC NewsOne
affiliate service. There, he covered big news events, including the
2008 presidential election, the 2010 Haitian earthquake and the 2010
Chilean miner rescue, and developed original content for ABC News
affiliates. Before ABC News, he worked as a special projects producer
for WJZ in Baltimore.

Tienabeso has received dozens of honors during his career, including
multiple duPont-Columbia, Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Awards. He has
been recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists
(NABJ) multiple times, including for his investigative work on Trayvon
Martin’s death. His work also helped ABC News win a Peabody Award
for Hurricane Sandy coverage. ABC News Live’s “Prime” won a
Gracie for Best News Program and was the first streaming newscast to
ever receive an Emmy nomination, among other accolades under his
leadership.

Tienabeso currently resides in New Jersey and holds a Bachelor of Arts
in journalism and political science from Emory University.
