John Mone

John Mone

John Mone

National Correspondent

John Mone has worked in television news for 20 years and was most recently at the Associated Press before joining Scripps News as a national correspondent based in Houston. Over the last 15 years, he covered some of the biggest breaking news stories and events, including being among the first wave of media to arrive in Haiti after a catastrophic earthquake destroyed much of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, and Leogane. He’s covered the Olympics, World Cup, death of Michael Jackson, worst oil spill in U.S. history, and spent six months on the 2012 Romney presidential campaign. He's a multiple Murrow Award winner and mostly recently earned an Emmy for his coverage inside in a Houston hospital besieged by the first wave of COVID-19 in the Summer of 2020. He also had career stops in Providence, RI, Hartford, CT, and Fargo, ND. He's a graduate of Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.

Recent Work
Migrant with his head down on his knees at the U.S.-Mexico border

Asian migrants seeking asylum at US border face different obstacles

Family released by Hamas.

Family member of 3 released Hamas hostages speaks out 

Children look at photographs of kidnapped Israelis

Relatives of released hostages optimistic more will be released

Empty shopping cart in a grocery aisle

Demand for food assistance on the rise ahead of holidays

Rev. Jimmie Hardaway Jr. shows the gun he carries on him during services at Trinity Baptist Church.

Do more guns ensure safety or raise concerns for churchgoers?

Rescue personnel perform a search in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael

Builders developing better designs for homes to withstand hurricanes

Football with goalpost in the background.

NFL welcomes addition of flag football to Olympics

A smokejump practice jumps.

These heroic smokejumper crews leap toward danger to stop wildfires

Migrants who crossed into the U.S. from Mexico pass under concertina wire along the Rio Grande.

Over 140,000 migrants apprehended at the US-Mexico border this month

Guardsmen deploy extra concertina wire in an are where migrants have been crossing

US military deployed to border to assist with influx of migrants

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge rises behind the price board of a gas station in San Francisco.

Global oil prices could influence Central Bank's interest rate calls

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton smiling at impeachment trial.

Texas AG Ken Paxton cleared of all 16 charges in impeachment trial

An inn damaged from Hurricane Idalia

Residents in Cedar Key take stock of damage from Hurricane Idalia

Hyundai IONIQ 5 electric car

Texas is the latest state to start taxing EV drivers every year

President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden's legal woes could threaten Joe Biden's reelection

COVID-19 antigen home tests indicating a positive results.

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise again

A Wells Fargo office in New York.

Fraudulent bank accounts resurface at Wells Fargo

The Pentagon.

NYT: Officials fear Chinese hackers' malware could disrupt US military

Amber Poploski lost her home and survived a mudslide.

Vermont braces for months of flood cleanup and recovery

Former Vice President Mike Pence.

Fmr. VP Mike Pence doubts Donald Trump's Jan. 6 actions were criminal

Flooded grass is shown in Vermont.

Vermont farmers reeling after widespread flooding ruined crops

Mud and floodwater block a section of a state road in Ludlow, Vermont.

Heavy rains flood Northeast; scorching heat grips South, Southwest

Veterinary staff use a canoe to remove surgical supplies from the flood-damaged center.

Vermont residents survey flood damage, brace for more rain

A man using a dating app.

Pig butchering: Dating scam hooks victims with fake crypto investments

Activists and international delegations stand next to cluster bomb units.

What are cluster munitions, and why are they controversial?

Shadow of a helicopter hovering over feral hogs in a field.

Farmers clash with feral hogs causing significant damage to crops

Migrants heading to a shelter

Migrants from Florida sent to Sacramento detail their journey

Police tape cordons off the area of a mass shooting.

3 mass shootings rang out across the US ahead of July 4th holiday

Andres Matamoros wipes the sweat from his face while selling fresh fruit in Texas.

Deadly Texas heat wave intensifies concerns over controversial new law

Electrical towers are shown.

Triple-digit heat wave temperatures test the Texas electrical grid