Lisa Salters

Reporter and E:60 Correspondent

Lisa Salters joined ESPN as a general assignment reporter in March 2000 from ABC News where she served as a bureau correspondent out of Los Angeles, providing news coverage for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts since the spring of 1997. Salters, who is based in ESPN's Los Angeles bureau, also serves a sideline reporter for Saturday Night Football on ABC and NBA telecasts on ESPN and ABC. She is a correspondent for E:60, ESPN’s first multi-themed prime-time newsmagazine program, which debuts Tuesday, Oct. 16.

At ESPN, Salters’ reports have been regularly featured on the award-winning Outside the Lines series. She led the network’s comprehensive coverage of the murder trial of Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth in December 2000 through January 2001. Additionally, Salters was ESPN’s reporter at the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan – breaking the news on the U.S. National Team’s starting lineup a day before it’s first match in the competition against Portugal.

During the build-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom through the commencement of the war, Salters covered sports-related stories in and around the U.S. Central Command in Qatar for Outside the Lines, SportsCenter and ESPNEWS.

At ABC News, she covered the Oklahoma City bombing trials, the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the crash of TWA flight 800. Salters, was named the first West Coast correspondent for NewsOne, the ABC affiliate news service, in February 1995.

Before ABC, Salters served as a general assignment reporter for WBAL-TV in Baltimore, Md. At WBAL-TV, she also covered national and international news, including the conflicts in the African countries of Rwanda and Somalia.

A native of King of Prussia, Pa., Salters graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and played on the school's women's basketball team.

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