Axel Turcios

Axel Turcios

Axel Turcios

National Correspondent

Axel Turcios is an Emmy-Award winning journalist who joins Scripps News as a National Correspondent based out of New York City. He comes to us from Univision 23 in Miami, where Axel appeared frequently on the national programs Primer Impacto, Noticiero Nacional Univision and Despierta América. Before joining Univision, Axel worked for two years as a reporter for Telemundo in Las Vegas. Axel will be the first to tell you that reporting out of New York City has been a life-long dream. He dedicates his spare time to community work and organizing charitable projects to help low-income families and children in his country of origin, Honduras.

Recent Work
Jonathan Majors arriving at court

Jury selection for Jonathan Majors assault trial begins in NYC

New York Mayor Eric Adams, accompanied by Ingrid Lewis-Martin, his chief advisor

Wave of sexual abuse claims in New York amid Adult Survivors Act

People ice skating

Bryant Park Winter Village returns for another year of festivities

File photo of Osama bin Laden.

TikTok prohibits videos promoting bin Laden's 'Letter to America'

A Medicaid office employee working on reports

New data shows millions of children have lost Medicaid coverage

Yusef Salaam

1-on-1 with former Central Park 5's Yusef Salaam

A tent that will be used for laundry is seen during a media tour of a shelter in New York City.

NYC migrant shelters are at capacity as winter approaches

New York City police officers

Viral video appears to show NYPD officer say homophobic slur

The healthcare.gov website

As open enrollment begins, expect higher premiums in 2024

Robert F. Bukaty

This is what we know about the Maine mass shooting suspect

Officers Carl Fayette and Eleodoro Mata

NYPD officers hailed as heroes for saving man from jumping off bridge

Former President Donald Trump leaving the courtroom during a break in his civil business fraud trial

Trump back in a New York courtroom for civil fraud charges

Duaa Abufares

Palestinian Americans react to the conflict between Israel and Hamas

Travelers arriving at Newark International Airport.

US airlines cut travel in and out of Israel amid attacks

Bags containing a pillow, towel, and bed sheets are placed on cots

Migrant crisis in NYC is alarming as city reaches capacity

Migrants sit in a queue outside The Roosevelt Hotel.

What's driving Venezuelans to migrate to the US?

Picketers carry signs outside Amazon Studios

What's next for the writers' strike?

Evelyn Jurado

NYC officials call on Biden for more help with asylum seekers

Sign that says "face masks required" outside a doctors office

NYC is currently experiencing a new COVID surge as cases rise daily

Pillows and cots in a migrant housing facility

NYC has opened a new migrant center on Randall's Island

Medical tent for migrants

Gov. Hochul criticizes NYC Mayor Adams over handling of migrants

Rex Heuermann in handcuffs

The family of the Gilgo Beach suspect speaks out

Rex Heuermann

Alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer to submit DNA

Migrants waiting on the sidewalk outside a hotel

New York City is expecting more migrant buses

Migrants sit in a queue outside of The Roosevelt Hotel.

Migrant crisis worsens in New York City

O'Shae Sibley

New York City police looking for suspect in deadly stabbing of dancer

An undocumented immigrant in Florida

Undocumented migrants being fired because of new Florida law

Asylum seekers in class in New York

Activist teaches out of her basement to help New York asylum seekers

Police on the scene of a crime

Philadelphia shooting suspect charged with 5 counts of murder

A firework explodes in the sky.

Fireworks cause same toxic smoke as wildfires, concerning New Yorkers