Matthew Hilk is the Senior Vice President, News and Domestic Executive Editorial Director. He directs reporting pursuits and editorial focus on top domestic stories. He leads newsgathering teams on the National Desk and CNN’s regional bureaus around the country.

During his tenure at CNN, Hilk has also served as CNN’s Vice President and Managing Editor for domestic news, having led reporting teams through historic breaking news, including the COVID-19 pandemic, an epidemic of mass shootings, migration surges at the border, nationwide unrest in 2020 and many hurricane and tornado events. He also supervised the ongoing reporting during CNN’s award-winning investigation of law enforcement failures during the school shooting massacre in Uvalde. In addition, he helped launch CNN’s specialty beats covering Race & Equality and the Climate Crisis.

Hilk joined CNN as senior broadcast producer for The Lead with Jake Tapper based in Washington, D.C. He previously served as news director and news manager at NBC and ABC affiliates in the Nashville, Tenn., Pittsburgh and Birmingham, Ala. markets and led newsrooms to win the National Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence and the Emmy for News Excellence.

Hilk holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania.