Bob Murphy

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.