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Viviana Hurtado is a Washington, DC based correspondent for ABC NewsOne, the network’s affiliate news service. NewsOne provides live and packaged news reports for 180 ABC affiliates around the country, as well as more than 30 domestic and international clients, including BBC, NHK, Fuji, ARD/Germany and CTV Canada. In addition to filing daily reports for NewsOne, Ms. Hurtado anchors “Ahead of the Curve,” a program that highlights the latest technology news on ABC News NOW, the network’s 24-hour digital channel available to users across broadband, mobile and linear cable. She also contributes to ABC News NOW’s “Inside the Newsroom,” reporting on the latest headlines and developments from ABC News, and anchors a daily news show for ABC News-MTVu.

Since joining ABC News in March 2008, Ms. Hurtado has covered numerous stories, including Pope Benedict XVI’s inaugural visit to the U.S. Prior to joining ABC News, she was the North America correspondent for Al Jazeera English, the first English language, 24-hour network headquartered in the Middle East. She reported extensively from Latin America on everything from the 2006 Mexican presidential election and inauguration to the 2006 Ecuadoran presidential election. Ms. Hurtado also covered President Bush's 2007 visit to Latin America. She reported from Washington, DC for Al Jazeera English’s global audience, covering U.S. politics -- the U.S. presidential race, foreign policy and particularly the Middle East.

 Before her assignment at Al Jazeera English, Ms. Hurtado worked in Providence, Rhode Island, where she was as an investigative reporter and substitute anchor at the CBS and FOX affiliates. Prior to that, she was the Cameron County bureau chief at KRGV-TV in Brownsville, Texas, reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border and general immigration issues, and investigating public corruption and waste. In addition to her television work, Ms. Hurtado worked as a freelance contributing reporter for the New York Times in Mexico City, covering the historic 2000 Mexican presidential elections.

She began her journalism career at CNN en Español in Washington DC. Fluent in English and Spanish and proficient in three other languages, Ms. Hurtado has a dual Ph.D in Spanish and Portuguese and African American studies from Yale University, a Masters in Latin American studies from Stanford University and a BA in Hispanic Literature and Languages and Latin American studies from University of California at Berkeley.