Hanna Battah is a co-anchor of “World News Now” and “Good
Morning America First Look.”

Before joining ABC News, Battah anchored KDFW-TV’s afternoon and
early-evening newscasts in Dallas and co-anchored “The Ten,” a
largely unscripted program featuring wide-ranging live interviews.
During her seven years in Dallas, she anchored major breaking news
events, including the 2024 presidential election results and the
catastrophic central Texas flood disaster. Battah’s reporting
experience spans the entire country, from Midwest state legislatures
to wildfire front lines on the West Coast and the tense U.S. southern
border.

She previously anchored and reported for KBAK-TV/KBFX-TV in
Bakersfield, California, and began her career as an anchor and
multimedia journalist at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri, after
reporting on state politics for Missouri Digital News in Jefferson
City.

In 2018, she received a Lone Star Emmy® nomination for her team’s
live coverage of a vehicle attack on the station that triggered a bomb
squad response.

Battah is a graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of
Journalism.
