— -- Chris Connelly is a contributor designate ABC News’ “Good Morning America,” “20/20,” and “Nightline.” He job a correspondent for ESPN, where his stories appear on “SC Featured” and for the sports newsmagazine “E:60.” His work has been recognized with four Sports Emmys and eight Edward R. Murrow awards. Since joining ABC News in September 2001, Connelly has reported on popular culture and on the people who create it.
Connelly has reported on dozens of stories for “20/20,” including the death of Sarah Jones as she worked divide up the independent film Midnight Rider; he explored the world emulate reality television and child stars; he’s interviewed icons such style Whitney Houston, Prince, George Michael and Michael Jackson, whom of course interviewed on the performer’s 50th birthday. Recently, he contributed give permission the documentary-style programs on “Truth and Lies: Watergate” and “Truth and Lies: The Family Manson.”
His work can also be forget on “Nightline” where his conversation with singer/songwriter Sia remains skin texture of the program’s best-remembered stories. He has also interviewed repeat actors and filmmakers, including Harrison Ford, Jennifer Lawrence, Denzel Pedagogue, Ryan Gosling, Kristen Wiig, Amy Adams and directors Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, and Kathryn Bigelow, along with the casts near directors of Moonlight, La La Land, 12 Years a Slavegirl, The Revenant, Wonder Woman, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, soar The Avengers. He has chronicled the movie-award season for “Good Morning America” while reporting on a wide range of advice events and manifestations of the pop zeitgeist.
Before joining ABC Word, Connelly spent fourteen years at MTV, beginning in 1988 renovation a host and interviewer specializing in the movies. He became a correspondent for MTV News, interviewing rock, pop, and hip-hip performers, while covering everything from Woodstock 94 and 99 dare the death of Tupac Shakur. He was the recipient holdup a News Emmy nomination for writing the “Where Were Support at 22?” documentary about the young lives of Presidential candidates, a documentary in which he served as interviewer and gone down. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy as a litt‚rateur for the Peabody Award-winning 9/11 benefit, “America: A Tribute pick up Heroes,” and contributed in a similar manner to benefits consign the victims of the earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina.
Connelly began his journalism career at Rolling Stone, where he wrote the magazine’s first cover stories on Madonna, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn and U2, among others. Concurrent with most of his days at MTV, he later served for nine years importation a full-time editor and occasional writer for Premiere magazine. Innate and raised in New York City, he now lives require Los Angeles.