ABC News Announces Elwyn Lopez Promoted To Correspondent

ABC News president Kim Godwin sent the following note to the news division announcing that Elwyn Lopez has been promoted to correspondent.

Team –

I am pleased to announce that Elwyn Lopez has been promoted to correspondent based in Atlanta. Elwyn joined ABC News as its first multi-platform reporter based in Atlanta in 2020 and has since covered a wide range of stories, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the Georgia Senate race and the Atlanta spa shootings.

Elwyn has covered every major hurricane for the network over the past year, beginning with Hurricane Laura, and most recently, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, she traveled across the state of Louisiana telling the stories of recovering communities. She also covered the 2021 Alabama coal miners’ strike, looking at the months-long battle for workers’ rights and benefits there.

Prior to joining ABC News, Elwyn was a reporter at WXIA in Atlanta. As the station’s first journalist to report in both English and Spanish, she covered immigration policies and the impact they had on Georgians. Before that, she worked at CNN where she travelled across the U.S. and overseas covering stories such as the 2015 church shooting in Charleston, the Baltimore protests following Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody, El Chapo’s escape in Mexico and former president Barack Obama’s historic visit to Cuba.

Elwyn is the current National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) Atlanta Chapter president and sits on the NAHJ Board of Directors. In addition to speaking English and Spanish, she is fluent in French.

Elwyn is a skilled journalist with a passion for storytelling. Working alongside Steve Osunsami, our Atlanta team and the rest of the news division, I am excited to see where her reporting takes her next.

Please join me in congratulating Elwyn on her promotion.

Kim