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RON CLAIBORNE
News Anchor, "Good Morning America" Weekend Edition
Ron Claiborne is the news anchor of the weekend edition of "Good Morning America." Prior to being named news anchor of the weekend program, he was a general assignment correspondent based in Boston. Previously Mr. Claiborne worked in the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami bureaus of ABC News. He has also covered stories in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Haiti and Europe.
Mr. Claiborne has covered many stories for ABC News, including the Boston Catholic Church scandal in 2002, the Elian Gonzalez case, the Yugoslavia conflict in Belgrade in 1999, the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign and the Persian Gulf War. During the 2003 war with Iraq, he was embedded on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Prior to joining ABC News, Mr. Claiborne was a general assignment correspondent for WNYW-TV, New York, from 1982-86.
Mr. Claiborne was part of the ABC News team that won a 2000 Emmy Award for coverage of the seizure of Elian Gonzalez in Miami, and part of the team awarded a 2002 Cindy Award for the New Year's Eve special, "ABC 2002."
A reporter for the New York Daily News from 1980-82, Mr. Claiborne covered New York metropolitan news, city politics, City Hall and state government. Prior to that, from 1977-80, he was a reporter and editor for United Press International in New York. He began his journalism career at the Richmond (California) Independent in 1976.
A San Francisco native, Mr. Claiborne has a degree in psychology from Yale University and a Master's in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.