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Vinnie Malhotra is executive producer of ABC News' Weekend News Content, as well as the executive producer of Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff. At ABC News, he is responsible for the editorial content and production of the network's two weekend evening news broadcasts, World News Saturday and World News Sunday, and oversees the weekend editorial content and production of ABC News' digital platforms, including ABCNEWS.com and ABC News Now. He also serves as a senior producer of World News with Charles Gibson.
Prior to these positions, since June 2006, Malhotra was a senior producer with Nightline. There he helped manage production staff, oversaw editorial content, and developed series and feature segments for the live broadcast.
Before joining Nightline, Malhotra served as an anchor producer for World News Tonight. From 2002 to 2005, he was Peter Jennings' producer. In the months that followed Jennings' unexpected death, Malhotra worked with co-anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff. Malhotra was the ABC News producer in the convoy when Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt were hit by an IED in Iraq in January 2006. Malhotra did not sustain injury and returned to ABC News as an anchor producer for Charles Gibson at World News.
During his seven years with World News, Malhotra covered major events around the globe, including post-9/11 Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and the death of Pope John Paul II. In total, Malhotra has made eight trips to Iraq since the beginning of the war and has also reported from Iran, India, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Colombia, Haiti, and Venezuela.
Malhotra spent two years, from 1999-2000, as an Associate Producer at Peter Jennings Reporting. During his time in the ABC News documentary unit, he worked on Dark Horizon: India, Pakistan, and the Bomb. The program was awarded the Weintel Prize for Diplomatic Journalism from Georgetown University, as well as the Edwin M. Hood Diplomatic Correspondent Award from the National Press Club. Malhotra also worked on a two hour prime time special entitled Family Business, which traced the lives of candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush in the run-up to the contested 2000 election.
Malhotra began his career with ABC News in 1997. He has won four Emmy Awards for his coverage of the Iraq War, as well as the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for his coverage of the September 11th attacks and death of Pope John Paul II.
He is a graduate of The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with a degree in Political Science and Communication. Malhotra lives in New York City.
