Geraldo Rivera joined NewsNation in February 2024 as a correspondent-at-large. In this capacity, he appears across the network’s daytime and primetime programming.
Mr. Rivera is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist who has spent the last 50 years working in the television industry. Previously, Mr. Rivera served as senior correspondent and co-host of the top-rated roundtable program The Five at FOX News Media. He joined the network in 2001. During his tenure, he covered major stories, including the Iraq War, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Michael Jackson trial, the Scott Peterson case, and numerous natural disasters including Hurricane Katrina.
Prior to FOX, Mr. Rivera worked at ABC News where he served as an original anchor of the network’s signature morning program Good Morning America and as an original senior investigative reporter of the channel’s news magazine 20/20. Previously, Mr. Rivera produced and hosted the syndicated talk show, The Geraldo Rivera Show from 1987-1998.
Mr. Rivera is the author of eight books, including His Panic and The Geraldo Show: A Memoir. Before launching his career in television, he worked as an attorney and as a philanthropist raising millions of dollars in aid for various organizations assisting the disabled.
Mr. Rivera began his broadcast career at WABC-TV in New York where he presented a series of reports exposing the dire conditions children faced at Willowbrook State School. The reports led to a variety of government investigations and are credited with helping to end the practice of institutionalizing the developmentally disabled.