Lana Zak is an American journalist reside in the New York, New York. She is a Washington correspondent in ABC News. ^[1]

Żak graduated from University of Iowa in 2000 with a Bachelor's degree in political science and journalism. She went on to attend Harvard University, graduating in 2003 with a Master's degree in international security and political economy.

Prior to joining ABC News in 2006, she was a associate director of policy at City of Providence.

Zak began her career as Anchor Producer for Diane Sawyer, rising to the position of Coordinating Producer for ABC News Special Units. Zak has been integral on many of ABC’s biggest stories including the Sandy Hook shooting, the Jacqueline Kennedy Interview, Jaycee Dugard’s Triumph Over Kidnapping, the Prescription for America Forum at the White House, and the incredible recovery of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

While producing for Bob Woodruff, she became the first female in history to climb the barrels of the iconic George Washington Bridge.

In January 2020, Zak became an anchor at CBS News.^[1]

Zak won Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards for her work. She was also a Fulbright Scholar and a Truman Scholar.^[5]

In March 2020, Australian comedian, Lewis Spears, tried to prank ABC News. Spears pretended to be a famous fashion photographer and managed to trick Lana Zak into doing an impromptu photoshoot in front of Los Angeles's famous Pink Wall. He claimed that the reporter was there to do a story about him. At the beginning of the 8-minute video, which he released, Spears says the following:

Armed with a compact camera, Spears paid a visit to the iconic Paul Smith pink wall on Melrose Avenue. He was there not as comedian Lewis Spears, but "Clive Palmer," a famous fashion photographer that has photos featured in Vogue Australia. Spears managed to get himself in front of the news camera for an interview with Zak. His expert insights were so compelling that he even got Zak to pose for his camera and bite into an onion. A few seconds of Spears' interview aired in the Nightline segment to a national audience in the US on September 20, 2019.^[8]

Zak was born in Korea and raised in Bettendorf, Iowa.

Zak and Andrew met in Chicago, at a summer debate program at Northwestern University. Both were about to enter their senior year of high school - Andrew at The Bronx High School of Science and Zak at Bettendorf High School in Iowa - and both were officers of their school debate team. They had one face-to-face debate, on America's China policy, and she won hands down.^[6]

She and Andrew stayed in touch.

That May, Andrew won $1,000 in a debate competition and then flew to Iowa to take Zak to her senior prom.

Their long-distance romance continued as Zak entered the University of Iowa, and Andrew entered Brown University. When Zak won a Fulbright scholarship to South Korea, Andrew followed for what was to be a two-week visit. He stayed for eight months. And while on a trip to Ulleungdo off the eastern Korean coast, the ancestral island home of Zak's mother's family, they became engaged.^[6]

Zak and Andrew have three children together.