Matt Rivers

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.