Nicole Sganga is CBS News’ Homeland Security and Justice reporter. Throughout her career, Sganga has reported on some of Washington’s most-high profile stories, including the Manafort trials, the Mueller investigation, and the March for our Lives.
As a reporter covering homeland security and justice, Sganga has documented conditions at immigration processing centers at the U.S.-Mexico border, embedded U.S. Coast Guard rescue missions in the Florida Straits and reported from outside the U.S. Capitol during the January 6th insurrection. She has helped lead CBS News investigations into the U.S. Secret Service’s missing text messages, law enforcement’s systemic failures in responding to the Uvalde shooting and the rise of fentanyl trafficking into the United States.
Sganga has meticulously tracked federal hate crimes and domestic violent extremism. She reported from inside the court during the civil trial for the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally that condemned two-dozen white supremacists and neo-Nazi organizations.
As a campaign reporter for CBS News, Sganga embedded with the re-election campaign of former President Trump in 2020 and filed on-the-ground reporting from more than three dozen rallies. While covering the 2020 New Hampshire primary, Sganga interviewed more than 20 candidates and countless voters on issues ranging from health care to immigration to voting rights.
Sganga’s passion for uncovering the truth has led her to ground zero of some of the nation’s greatest tragedies and natural disasters. As a digital journalist first starting out at CBS News, Sganga traveled to more than two dozen states and territories to report on breaking news events including Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Maria, the Las Vegas shooting, the Capitol Gazette shooting, the Sutherland Springs shooting and more. As a fellow for the New York Times, she filed columns detailing the lack of health care and education inside Rohingya internment camps in western Myanmar.
Sganga is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and earned her LLM in International Human Rights Law at Oxford University.