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.
