Eric M. Strauss

Eric M. Strauss is an Emmy®, duPont, Peabody and RFK Award-winning journalist and executive. As the executive producer of the ABC News Medical team, he is responsible for health and medical reporting on air, online and streaming. He works daily with platforms like “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight,” “Nightline,” ABC digital and social platforms, and ABC News-affiliated and Disney Owned Television (OTV) Stations throughout the country.

Strauss manages a team of award-winning journalists and medical doctors who appear in reporting and produce and edit compelling vital content. He has contributed to multiple primetime television and radio specials, including the Emmy Award-winning “The Shot: Race for a Vaccine” and the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning radio special “Pandemic: A Nation Divided.” Under his tenure, Strauss has increased reporting on critical issues such as the mental health epidemic, maternal mortality, gun violence, health disparities and ongoing infectious disease threats. Strauss has developed collaborations with the ABC News OTV group and supervises the ABC News medical journalism rotation that welcomes 30 resident physicians a year to embed with the Medical Unit, teaching them how to better communicate with the public.

Strauss is a graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he studied political economics. In 2014, he was awarded a prestigious Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan. In 2004, he was part of a team that reported on Bridget Kelly, a teacher who survived a violent sexual attack and became an advocate for survivors. The two are now married and live with their two children in New York.