Nick Valencia Biography
Nick Valencia is an American journalist working as the CNN correspondent based in Atlanta, the network’s global headquarters. He appears on CNN, CNN International, HLN, and CNN en Espaol on a regular basis.
How old is Nick Valencia? – Age
He was born in Los Angles, United States. His date of birth is not revealed.
Is Nick Valencia married? – Wife
He is married to Rachel Valencia. The couple has a son named Ellie Valencia. The couple lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Nick Valencia Net Worth
Nick has an estimated net worth of $1.9 million.
Nick Valencia BMX
Nick is a seasoned member of the Factory Supercross team. Nick currently races 36-40 experts and has 24 years of BMX racing experience. At the age of 12, he was introduced to racing through a church youth group. Nick was hooked after a few nights at the local track and couldn’t stop riding his bike. In the ultra-competitive 17-24 men category, he advanced to the world championship final. Nick also competed in the inaugural Dew Action Sports Tour BMX SX race.
Nick Valencia Career
Valencia won an Atlanta Press Club award in 2019 for his reporting along the US-Mexico border, where he lived for seven weeks in El Paso, Texas. He broke numerous stories, including an exclusive interview with a whistleblower border patrol agent who spoke out about the deplorable conditions in which migrants were being held. His account of the mistreatment of a Honduran migrant in detention sparked an internal government investigation. He was one of the reporters who broke the story about a racist and vulgar social media group connected to current and former CPB agents. Valencia was CNN’s lead reporter in 2018 covering President Trump’s zero-tolerance family separation policy, which was later repealed.
Valencia has devoted much of his recent attention to covering issues affecting the Latino community in the United States, such as the story of an American teen who was wrongfully detained in ICE custody on suspicion of being in the country illegally. Valencia was the only network TV reporter to visit a migrant tent camp in Matamoros, Mexico, in late 2019, where illness and disease were rampant among asylum seekers. Valencia has extensively covered race-related issues in America during his seven years as a CNN correspondent, including police shootings and protests across the country in Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, and Charlotte.
Valencia has also traveled internationally during his reporting career, including a trip to the Colombia-Venezuela border to highlight deteriorating conditions following 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 landed several high-profile interviews. In 2018, he was the first television correspondent to interview Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress accused of having an affair with President Trump, and the first to interview Alice Johnson, who became the face of prison reform in America after her clemency was granted. He covered all three major hurricanes in 2017 for CNN, including Maria, Harvey, and Irma. While on the air, Valencia assisted in reuniting a son with his father, whom he thought had died in the storm.
Valencia has covered everything from presidential elections and congressional races to Ebola outbreaks and prisoners of war as a general assignment reporter. He has reported from state legislatures across the country on contentious religious freedom bills, as well as North Carolina’s so-called Transgender Bathroom Bill. He’s also covered multiple natural disasters and mass shootings, including those at the Pulse nightclub and Mother Emmanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
He began working for CNN in 2006 as a teleprompter operator. Since then, he has been nominated for an Emmy and has contributed to CNN’s news coverage, earning three Peabody Awards. The Atlanta Press Club has twice nominated him for “Broadcast TV Reporter of the Year.” Valencia received the inaugural “Si Se Puede” Excellence in Leadership award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) in 2013. The Huffington Post named him one of America’s most influential Latino journalists. He was named one of the “Top 50 Latinos” on Twitter to follow.