Nick Valencia is an experienced award winning journalist based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a correspondent at CNN, where he regularly appears across HLN, CNN International, and CNN en Español. ^[1]

Nick Valencia graduated from Eagle Rock High School in 2001. He went on to attend the University of Southern California from 2001-2005, receiving a Bachelor's degree in Broadcast journalism.

He started at CNN in 2006 as a teleprompter operator, traveling to Uganda alone. Since then, he has been part of three Peabody Awards. In his five years as a CNN correspondent, he has twice been nominated by The Atlanta Press Club as Broadcast TV Reporter of the Year.

In 2013, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists awarded Valencia its inaugural "Sí Se Puede" Excellence in Leadership award. Also that year, The Huffington Post acknowledged him as one of the most influential Latino journalists in America. He has also been named one of the "Top 50 Latinos" to follow on Twitter.

On May 29th, 2020 when the CNN headquarters building in Atlanta was damaged by riotous protestors, Nick Valencia covered the mayhem live from a nearby post. ^[17]

He is married to Rachel Valencia.