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GLORIA RIVIERA
ABC NewsOne Correspondent
Gloria Riviera is the London correspondent for ABC NewsOne, the network's affiliate news service. She was named a correspondent in 2004, and prior to that was a contributing correspondent and field producer for network news coverage based in New York. She joined ABC News in June 1999 as the assistant to Sam Donaldson.
Ms. Riviera has reported and produced major stories around the world for ABC News. Since joining NewsOne, she has covered Hurricane Katrina, both the immediate aftermath of the storm and the six month anniversary; the West Virginia Sago mine disaster, Super Bowl 2006 and Martha Stewart's release from prison.
During the 2004 presidential election, Ms. Riviera covered the Kerry-Edwards campaign, focusing on vice presidential candidate John Edwards. During the Democratic primary season, she covered Senator Edwards' presidential bid and traveled with the Senator for six months as he canvassed Iowa and New Hampshire. In this capacity, Ms. Riviera became a self-contained "one-woman" production team, shooting video on her own PD-150 camera, using the AVID editing program and wirelessly transmitting her material to New York headquarters via the Internet.
In the lead-up to the war in Iraq, Ms. Riviera covered the United Nations for ABC News. She reported extensively on Security Council negotiations as the United States fought to pass a resolution authorizing the use of pre-emptive force. She also reported on the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the two United Nations entities responsible for investigating weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. When President Bush announced the formal end to military operations, Ms. Riviera went to Baghdad to report on the reconstruction efforts initiated by the Coalition Provisional Authority. During her time in Iraq, she traveled to Fallujah and was embedded with the Third Infantry Division, where she covered the beginnings of insurgent resistance in the Sunni Triangle.
On September 11, 2001, Ms. Riviera was at Ground Zero, where she reported for the next three weeks. In the following year, she covered the victims' families and the New York Fire Department. For ABC News' special coverage of the first anniversary of the attacks, she produced the closing segment, an award-winning piece that featured the work and recollections of still photographers who were at Ground Zero on September 11.
Prior to joining ABC News, Ms. Riviera worked for BBC News in New York while completing her master's degree in journalism at New York University. She was awarded a U.S. Department of Education-Fulbright fellowship to study in Spain and the RIAS fellowship to study in Germany.
A graduate of Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, Ms. Riviera was raised in Sun Valley, Idaho and Seattle, Washington.