George Stephanopoulos
George Stephanopoulos is a seasoned and impactful reporter with nearly three decades of experience in the media industry. As co-anchor for America’s most-watched morning newscast, “Good Morning America,” alongside Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan, and host of ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” his powerful and poignant reporting has defined some of the most consequential moments in broadcast journalism. His headline-making interviews include President Joe Biden in his first conversation following his 2024 presidential debate performance, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro following the firebombing of his official residence, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani the day after his election, Sam Bankman-Fried in the Bahamas following the collapse of cryptocurrency giant FTX, as well as interviews with former FBI director James Comey and President Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen. Over the course of his career, he has interviewed six U.S. presidents, including Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, as well as most presidential candidates and global leaders, such as Russian President Vladimir Putin. Stephanopoulos and Roberts are the longest-running anchor duo on morning television, having co-anchored together since 2009.
Stephanopoulos’ interviews span politics, culture and entertainment, featuring sit-downs with Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Bruce Springsteen, George Clooney, Taylor Swift, Adam Sandler, Ryan Coogler, Brooke Shields, Emma Stone, Molly Ringwald and Sofía Vergara. Known for exclusive, newsmaking conversations, Stephanopoulos’ 2021 interview with Alec Baldwin, weeks after the “Rust” shooting, won a Los Angeles Press Club Award. He also sat down with former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, the author of the so-called “Steele dossier.”
For the 2024-2025 season, “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” ranked as the No. 1 Sunday public affairs program in Total Viewers for the fourth consecutive season. His exclusive interviews over the years have included key newsmakers such as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) during the Jan. 6 committee hearings, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
In addition to his extensive reporting, Stephanopoulos is a prolific producer. He founded George Stephanopoulos Productions (GSP), a production unit within ABC News Studios focusing on long-form nonfiction projects. GSP’s credits include the Emmy® Award-winning “Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK” (produced in partnership with the Associated Press), “Power Trip: Those Who Seek Power and Those Who Chase Them,” “Two Men at War,” “The Informant: Fear and Faith in the Heartland,” the Emmy Award-nominated “Alec Baldwin Unscripted” and the Emmy Award-nominated primetime special “Bruce Springsteen: Backstage and Backstreets,” which granted access and interviews to Springsteen and the E Street Band while on tour.
He is also the co-founder of BedBy8, a production company led by Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth, focused on scripted television projects, limited series and documentaries. BedBy8, in partnership with GSP, produced the award-winning and critically acclaimed documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.”
Since joining ABC News in 1997 as an analyst for “This Week,” Stephanopoulos has become a cornerstone of the network’s news coverage. His work has earned four Emmys, a DuPont Award, three Edward R. Murrow Awards and two Cronkite Awards, and in 2024, he was inducted into the Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame.
He is the author of two No. 1 New York Times bestsellers: “All Too Human: A Political Education” and “The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis,” which details the secrecy, mystery and untold stories behind some of the most consequential decisions in American history.
