Jaclyn Lee

Jaclyn Lee is a multiplatform reporter for ABC ABCABC (American Broadcasting Company) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It grew out of NBC’s Blue radio network, took its name after becoming independent in 1943, developed into a national television network after merging with United Paramount Theatres in 1953, was acquired by Capital Cities in 1985, and has been owned by The Walt Disney Company since 1996. With CBS and NBC it is one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks, and it is one of the five networks that rotate in the White House television pool.Open the full entry News, which she joined in 2023 after working as an anchor and reporter at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia and as a reporter and weekend evening anchor at WVEC-TV in Norfolk, Virginia VirginiaVirginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state whose capital is Richmond. It entered the Union on June 25, 1788, as the 10th state, and had a population of 8,631,393 in the 2020 census (April 1, 2020).Open the full entry.

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2015Education and Reporting and Research Abroad

She holds a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Established by an act written in 1789, it admitted its first students in 1795, describes itself as the first public university in the United States, and is part of the UNC System.Open the full entry.⁠[1]

Her LinkedIn LinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry profile lists Robertson Scholar Robertson Scholars Leadership ProgramThe Robertson Scholars Leadership Program is an undergraduate scholarship and leadership program created in 2000 by Julian Robertson and his wife Josie. Its scholars hold student privileges at both Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the program covers eight semesters of full tuition, room and board.Open the full entry, The Daily Tar Heel and Honors Carolina under that university, describes the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program as a full merit scholarship and leadership development program at both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, and also lists Duke University under education.⁠[2]

ABC News’s official biography states that her work has taken her around the globe: reporting on protesters against Machu Picchu tourism in Peru, on the effort to preserve minority cultures in China and on the large number of sea lions dying in Chile, and researching the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.⁠[1]

Her LinkedIn profile dates three of these to 2015: storytelling and marketing work at Awamaki in Peru, including interviews in Spanish with women’s cooperatives; research on genocide, human rights, international law and Rwandan society in Rwanda as a researcher of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and work as a reporter for S.I.T. in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, documenting people who preserve traditional Chinese culture and researching how rural ethnic minorities adapt to a booming tourism industry.⁠[2]

2016Weekend Assignment Desk Editor at WRAL

Her LinkedIn profile states that from January to October 2016 she was weekend assignment desk editor at WRAL in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area of North Carolina North CarolinaNorth Carolina is a state in the South Atlantic region of the United States; its capital is Raleigh and its largest city is Charlotte. One of the original 13 states, it ratified the U.S. Constitution on November 21, 1789, becoming the 12th state, and its population in the 2020 census was 10,439,388.Open the full entry, running the weekend assignment desk and confirming breaking news updates and story details.⁠[2]

2017–2020Reporter and Weekend Evening Anchor at WVEC-TV

She worked as a general assignment reporter and weekend evening anchor at WVEC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Norfolk, Virginia, where she covered from the Virginia State Capitol the blackface scandal and the sexual assault allegations involving top state politicians; she also led investigations into critical shortages of fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy, which caused officials to take action.⁠[1]

Her LinkedIn profile gives the dates of this position as January 2017 to January 2020 and states that she was a political beat reporter covering the Virginia legislature and federal representatives and anchored the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. weekend newscasts.⁠[2]

2020–2023Anchor and Reporter at WPVI-TV

She worked as an anchor and reporter at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, where she worked on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, covering its impact on the Delaware Valley, the 2020 presidential election, including Pennsylvania PennsylvaniaPennsylvania (officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) is a Middle Atlantic state of the United States; its capital is Harrisburg, and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are its two great metropolitan areas. One of the original 13 states, it ratified the U.S. Constitution on December 12, 1787, the second state to do so. Its population in the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) was 13,002,700.Open the full entry’s role as a swing state, and the 2021 winter storm in Houston.⁠[1]

After anti-Asian American hate crimes increased nationwide, she pitched and carried out a public service announcement against anti-Asian hate crime that aired on ABC’s owned television stations across the country.⁠[3]

Her LinkedIn profile gives the dates of this position as January 2020 to January 2023.⁠[2]

February 2023Joining ABC News

On February 6, 2023, Wendy Fisher Wendy FisherWendy Fisher is an American television news executive and senior vice president of editorial for CBS News and Stations. She spent more than 30 years at ABC News from 1989, serving as senior vice president of global newsgathering from 2020 to 2023, before joining CBS in 2024.Open the full entry, the head of newsgathering at ABC News, announced in a memo to staff that she and Melissa Adan Melissa AdanMelissa Adan is a Los Angeles-based multiplatform reporter for ABC News, reporting for Good Morning America, World News Tonight and ABC News Live. Born and raised in Miami, she is a bilingual, first-generation Cuban American who previously worked at NBC 7 San Diego and Telemundo 20, NBC 6 South Florida and KLBK in Lubbock.Open the full entry were joining ABC News as multi-platform reporters; she was to be based in New York. ABC is the network to which ABC News belongs.⁠[3][4]

Her LinkedIn profile gives this position as Correspondent/Multi-Platform Reporter from February 2023, located in New York; it states that she reports for all ABC News platforms, including Good Morning America, World News Tonight, ABC News Live, GMA3 and Nightline, and lists among the stories she has covered the Los Angeles wildfires, the flooding in Kerrville, Texas TexasTexas is a U.S. state in the south-central United States, with its capital at Austin and its largest city Houston. It was admitted to the Union on December 29, 1845, as the 28th state, and the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted 29,145,505 residents.Open the full entry, and the effect of tariff policies on business.⁠[2]

April 23, 2026Peabody Award for ABC News and KABC-TV

On April 23, 2026, the Peabody Awards Peabody AwardsThe Peabody Awards are media awards based at the University of Georgia. First presented in 1941, they honor television, podcast/radio and streaming work, with winners chosen by unanimous vote of a Board of Jurors, and are named for the university benefactor George Foster Peabody.Open the full entry announced the winners of the 86th annual awards, including “Los Angeles Burning,” the coverage of the 2025 Southern California CaliforniaCalifornia is a U.S. state on the Pacific coast; its capital is Sacramento and its largest city is Los Angeles. California was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850, as the 31st state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 39,538,223, the largest of any state.Open the full entry wildfires by ABC News and KABC-TV in Los Angeles, in the News category. The Peabody award page credits ABC News and KABC-TV without naming individuals; her LinkedIn profile lists the honor as a 2025 Peabody Award.⁠[5][6]

Awards Listed on Her LinkedIn Profile

Her LinkedIn profile states that she received a 2023 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for reporting on the Flint water crisis in ABC’s “Power of Water” series and a 2025 Peabody Award for the around-the-clock coverage of the Los Angeles wildfires across ABC News platforms.⁠[2]