Josh Einiger joined WABC-TV as a reporter in September 2009. Every night, he covers the big story on the station's top-rated Eyewitness News at 11.
While at WABC, Josh has reported from the scene of the world's biggest news events. When he traveled to Israel in the aftermath of October 7, he showed the world some of the first images of the devastated Kibbutz Nir Oz, where one in four residents was either killed or kidnapped by Hamas. Months later, he returned to Israel in time to watch the nation’s vaunted Iron Dome defense system fend off Iran’s historic barrage of missiles and drones.
Previously, Josh covered mass shootings in Parkland and Orlando, FL, along with hurricanes in Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico. He reported from the catastrophic condo collapse in Surfside, FL, the concert bombing in Manchester, England and the inferno at Notre Dame in Paris. He won Emmy awards for his coverage of the refugee crisis on the Ukraine-Poland border, as well as the Trump Administration’s "family separation" policy at the Mexico border. Josh has reported extensively on national politics from Washington, and he was on the scene for the capture of the Boston Marathon bomber.
Josh's stories from the front lines of New York's 2020 Coronavirus lockdown contributed to the station's national Edward R. Murrow award for its pandemic coverage. Josh has also won Emmy awards for his role covering a terror attack on a Manhattan bike path and the fatal crash of a helicopter in the East River. He chronicled the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, as well as countless other severe weather events in the New York area and beyond. As WABC's Long Island Reporter, he led the station's coverage of the search for a serial killer near Gilgo Beach.
Before joining WABC, Josh worked as a reporter in Philadelphia, Orlando and Albany, and as a national correspondent for Fox News affiliates. He got his start behind the scenes as a field producer, photographer and assignment editor in New York and Philadelphia.
Josh is a graduate of the Horace Mann School and the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in political science and history. He lives with his family in Manhattan, blocks from where he was born and raised.
