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DANA HUGHES
ABC News Reporter
Dana Hughes is an ABC News reporter covering Africa. She is based in Nairobi, Kenya. In this role she contributes on- and off-air reporting to all ABC News broadcasts, ABC News Radio and ABC NewsOne, the network’s affiliate news service, and also regularly files for ABC News’ digital platforms, including ABCNEWS.com, ABC News Now and ABC News’ webcasts.
Before this position, she was an associate producer for the ABC News’ Investigative Unit, where she helped produce stories for “World News with Charles Gibson,” “Nightline,” “Good Morning America,” “20/20” and ABC News Radio.
Also working as a writer and reporter for “The Blotter,” the Investigative Unit’s webpage on ABCNEWS.com, Hughes has documented corruption in Nigeria, human rights abuses in Africa and the Middle East, and prescription drug errors by one of the country’s largest pharmacy chains. Following Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s confession of his involvement in the murder of former Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Hughes conducted an exclusive interview with Pearl’s father.
Hughes won a 2006 Gracie Allen Award for the “20/20” and “Nightline” reports “The Dark Side of Cancun,” where she traveled to Mexico, shooting undercover to expose the underbelly of the popular resort town. In 2006 she received a National Headliner Award for her work on an investigation into Nigerian 419 scams, and a National Press Club Honorable Mention for an investigation into homeowner’s insurance corruption in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Hughes was also a part of ABC’s Investigative Unit recognized with a 2006 Peabody Award for an investigation into Congressman Mark Foley and other corruption in the U.S. government.
Hughes joined ABC News in 2005 as a Carnegie Corporation Fellow working with the ABC News’ Investigative Unit, where she examined the safety of nuclear reactors on college campuses. Before joining ABC, she worked as a writer and editor for the Ford Foundation. She also attended the London School of Economics and Politics as a Hansard Scholar, where she worked in the British House of Commons.
Raised in Fort Collins, CO, Hughes graduated with a B.A. from Colorado State University and a M.S. with honors distinction from The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Berlin, Germany for young journalists in 2006.