Lisa Salters
Reporter/E:60 Correspondent
Lisa Salters
One of ESPN’s most versatile reporters, Lisa Salters can be seen on the sidelines of NBA and major college football games or reporting on the ESPN news magazine, E:60, a role which earned her a Gracie Award from the Association for Women in Radio in Television for best feature in 2009.
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 and other ABC News telecasts since the spring of 1997.
At ESPN, Salters’ reports have also 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 its 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, and was named the first West Coast correspondent for NewsOne, the ABC affiliate news service, in February 1995.
Earlier in her career, Salters served as a general assignment reporter for WBAL-TV in Baltimore, where 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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