Nick Valencia is a CNN correspondent based in the network's global headquarters in Atlanta. He regularly appears across CNN, CNN International, HLN and CNN en Español.

In 2019, Valencia won an Atlanta Press Club award for his reporting along the U.S.-Mexico border where he spent seven weeks living in El Paso, Texas. He broke numerous stories including an exclusive interview with a border patrol agent whistleblower who spoke out about the deplorable conditions in which migrants were being held. His story on the treatment of a Honduran migrant who was mistreated while in custody sparked an internal government investigation. He was one of the reporters to break the story of a racist and vulgar social media group with a nexus to current and former CPB agents. In 2018, Valencia was CNN's lead reporter covering President Trump's zero tolerance family separation policy that was later lifted.

Valencia has dedicated much of his attention in recent years to covering issues that impact the Latino community in the U.S., including the story of an American teen who was wrongfully held in ICE custody on suspicion of being in the country illegally. In late 2019, Valencia was the only network TV reporter to travel into a migrant tent camp in Matamoros, Mexico, where illness and disease among asylum seeking migrants was rampant.

In his seven years as a CNN correspondent, Valencia has extensively covered race-related issues in America, including police shootings and protests across the country in Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, and Charlotte.

During his reporting career, Valencia has traveled internationally as well, including a trip to the Colombia-Venezuela border to spotlight deteriorating conditions after a failed coup-attempt, as well as the Mexican drug wars as the first American inside the tunnel used by drug kingpin El Chapo to escape a Mexican prison.

Valencia has secured several news making interviews. In 2018, he was the first TV correspondent to interview Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress purported to have had an affair with President Trump, and was the first to interview Alice Johnson, seen as the face of prison reform in America after her clemency was granted.

During CNN's 2017 hurricane coverage, he covered all three major hurricanes, including Maria, Harvey, and Irma. While on-air, Valencia helped reunite a son with his father, whom he feared had died in the storm. As a general assignment reporter, Valencia has covered everything from presidential elections and congressional races to Ebola outbreaks and prisoners-of-war. He has reported from state legislatures across the country on controversial religious freedom bills, as well as the so-called Transgender Bathroom Bill in North Carolina. He's also been on the ground during multiple natural disasters, and covered mass-shootings, including the Pulse night club and Mother Emmanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

He started at CNN in 2006 as a teleprompter operator. Since then, he has been nominated for an Emmy and has been part of the news coverage earning three Peabody Awards at CNN. He has twice been nominated by The Atlanta Press Club as "Broadcast TV Reporter of the Year." In 2013, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) awarded Valencia its inaugural "Si Se Puede" Excellence in Leadership award. The Huffington Post acknowledged him as one of the most influential Latino journalists in America. He was named one of the "Top 50 Latinos" to follow on Twitter.

A graduate of USC's Annenberg School of Journalism, he is the former documentary filmmaker for the National Champion USC football team. Originally from Northeast Los Angeles, he currently lives in Atlanta, and serves as the National Vice President of Broadcast for NAHJ.

You can follow his stories on Twitter and Instagram @CNNValencia