Matt Rivers is an ABC News correspondent based in Mexico City. Rivers
has covered breaking news and areas of conflict around the world, and
his reporting has been featured on “World News Tonight with David
Muir,” “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” “ABC News Live
Prime” and ABC News Live.

Rivers has reported for months from Israel since the start of the war
with Hamas, interviewed cartel members in Mexico about human smuggling
and fentanyl trafficking, reported from inside of Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, after gangs tried to topple the government, and walked part of
the Darien Gap in Colombia with migrants on their way to the United
States. He has also spent time in Peru reporting on the newly elected
Pope Leo’s time as a young priest, reported extensively on
immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border, covered U.S.-China relations
from Beijing, and reported on numerous natural disasters in the U.S.,
including the Los Angeles wildfires.

Prior to ABC News, Rivers was an international correspondent at CNN
covering stories across the world based in the Beijing and Mexico City
bureaus. He reported for weeks from Ukraine during the early months of
the Russian invasion, covered months of protests in Hong Kong against
China rule, grilled officials during the genocide of the Rohingya in
Myanmar, and spent months traveling Latin America reporting on the
deadly impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. He was also the first
international journalist on the ground in Haiti after President
Jovenel Moïse was assassinated.

Before working at CNN, Rivers reported for Philadelphia’s KYW, San
Antonio’s KSAT and El Paso’s KTSM.

Rivers has received a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award and
multiple Emmy® Award nominations.

He is the son of a former police officer and a former public school
teacher from New Jersey, and is married to his college sweetheart,
with whom he has two young children.
