Robert Murphy is the vice president of News Administration for ABC
News. Murphy played a key role in organizing and leading the
division’s effort to report safely and effectively during the
COVID-19 pandemic. He was also a critical part of the successful
relaunch of “Nightline” in 1980 and has been involved in the
political coverage of every presidential election since 1980. He is
based in New York.

Prior to becoming vice president in 2007, he was senior vice president
of multimedia, responsible for producing news content across a variety
of broadcast, cable, internet and wireless platforms. He was made
senior vice president for Hard News at ABC in 1993, where he was
responsible for the coverage of all the ABC News bureaus, as well as
flagship programs like “World News Tonight” and “World News This
Morning.”

Murphy joined ABC News in 1976 on the Washington Bureau desk and
served in Washington until 1981 when he moved to New York to oversee
television news coverage. Prior to joining ABC News, he was staff
assistant to former Rep. Peter Rodino during the House Judiciary
Committee’s impeachment inquiry of then-President Richard Nixon.

He is a 1971 graduate of Fairfield University, on whose board of
trustees he currently serves, and holds a Master of Business
Administration from the College of William & Mary. He also serves as
the chairman of the board of Abraham House, a nonprofit agency
operating in the South Bronx dedicated to providing alternatives to
incarceration as well as family services that break the cycle of crime
and allow first-time offenders to become contributing members of their
community.
