Dan Abrams

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Dan Abrams (born May 20, 1966) is an American web entrepreneur and television presenter who serves as the chief legal affairs anchor for ABC News, host of Live PD on the A&E cable network, and hosts The Dan Abrams Show: Where Politics Meets The Law on SiriusXM's P.O.T.U.S. channel.

Abrams is the current host and executive producer of Court Cam a Law&Crime Production airing on A&E in December 2019.

He is a legal commentator, author, and former anchor of Nightline.

Abrams also worked as the chief legal correspondent and analyst for NBC News and general manager of MSNBC, and doubled as an anchor for the same network.

Early life

Daniel Abrams was born in Manhattan; he is Jewish, the son of Efrat and well-known attorney Floyd Abrams, an expert on constitutional law. He is a 1984 graduate of Riverdale Country School. Abrams received his B.A. cum laude in political science from Duke University in 1988. While at Duke, he anchored newscasts on the student-run channel Cable 13 and was vice president of the student body. Abrams received a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Personal life

In June 2012, Abrams had his first child with girlfriend Florinka Pesenti, who was part of the winning team on The Amazing Race 3. They had a daughter in 2021.

Abrams was a co-owner with David Zinczenko of the restaurant The Lion in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood. The Lion closed in 2015.

Abrams's sister, Ronnie Abrams, was nominated for a federal judgeship by Barack Obama in 2011. She received her commission on March 23, 2012.

In 2021 Abrams purchased Laurel Lake Vineyards on Long Island's North Fork, which he relaunched in Summer 2021 under a name inspired by his two children, Ev&Em Vineyards.

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Career

Abrams served as a reporter for court television from May 1994 to June 1997, where he covered the O. J. Simpson case, the International War Crime Tribunal from the Netherlands, and Michigan's assisted-suicide trials of Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

Abrams worked as a general assignment reporter for NBC News from 1997 to 1999, at which time he was named Chief Legal Correspondent. Abrams hosted his own show at MSNBC, and The Abrams Report debuted in 2001. Before he accepted the lead managerial position at MSNBC, Abrams hosted The Abrams Report. From June 12, 2006 to October 2007, Abrams was the General Manager of MSNBC. Abrams was forced to concentrate on his programme Live with Dan Abrams, which was replaced Scarborough Country due to Joe Scarborough's transfer to mornings. This program would eventually be renamed Verdict with Dan Abrams, who aired until August 21, 2008. Rachel Maddow, the presenter of MSNBC, announced on August 19, 2008, that she would take over the time slot beginning in September 8, 2008. Abrams assumed additional responsibilities with NBC News, including substituting as an anchor on the Today show.

Abrams left NBC to become ABC News Chief Legal Analyst and a backup anchor on Good Morning America in March 2011. Abrams will serve as both the network's Chief Legal Affairs Anchor and a Nightline anchor, as well as a Nightline anchor. ABC revealed in June 2013 that Abrams would be the network's Chief Legal Affairs Anchor and anchor. In December 2014, he stepped down from his full-time work as Nightline anchor to focus on his expanding media companies and resumed to his freelance work as the network's Chief Legal Analyst. Abrams has been described as the "go-to analyst on legal matters" in 2020 by The Poynter Report.

From October 2016 to June 2020, Abrams hosted Live PD, which followed police officers across the United States as they patrol their neighborhoods. Abrams investigated each incident with analyst Tom Morris Jr. and Sean "Sticks" Larkin as the police work took place using a dash-cam video, handheld low-light-capable cameras, and fixed-camera rigs. In the episode Grace vs. Abrams, Abrams and legal analyst Nancy Grace debated high-profile crime cases. Abrams also agreed to produce and host Court Cam, a new program that takes viewers inside America's courthouses in 2019. Following the assassination of George Floyd and the loss of the video footage of the assassination of Javier Ambler, a live PD was cancelled on June 10, 2020.

Abrams will appear on NewsNation in 2021, and Nexstar announced it on July 19, 2021.

The Wall Street Journal announced that Abrams will return as host and executive producer for On Patrol: Live, a new show on Reelz that follows the same format as A&E's defunct Live PD. Patrol on Patrol: On Patrol: Live premiered on July, 22nd 2022.

Gossip Cop, a media monitoring service that monitors the celebrity gossip universe, was launched by Abrams and Michael Lewittes on July 29, 2009. Rex Sorgatz, the site's designer, has referred to it as "TMZ meets Smoking Gun." According to a 0–10 scale, gossip rumors are rated on a 0-10 scale. The website attracted over 8 million unique visitors in the month of May 2013. Gateway Blend purchased Gossip Cop in 2019 and launched it in 2019.

Abrams founded Mediaite, a news website that he characterized as "appreciating the celebrity of the media." The website mixes editorial content with analytic analysis of media personalities. It attracted over 7 million unique visitors per month in mid-2015.

Geekosystem was launched on January 25, 2010. Following advances in science, electronics, and internet memes and internet culture, Geekosystem covered "geek" culture. On launch, Abrams described the website as "a larger interest portal that will celebrate and cover everything from technology and science fiction to video games and comics."

Styleite, Abrams' foray into fashion, debuted on March 25, 2010. Styleite launched with both news and opinion content, as well as a fashion version of the "Power Grid," which assigns a score to designers, writers, and others in the style industry based on influence and following, with some of the following. In 2015, Abrams rebranded Styleite as Runway Riot, naming Iskra Lawrence as the managing editor. RunwayRiot.com is marketed as a fashion website for "plus-sized women."

SportsGrid, launched in May 2010, is a collection of sports news, video clips, and other media outlets that cover both sports and the media industry surrounding it. The website uses a Power Grid "tabulated" like the other Abrams Media properties, as well as Web traffic and circulation counts; attendance; number of Twitter followers; and franchise values. In 2013, Anthem Media Group acquired SportsGrid in a stock and cash merger.

Abrams Media launched The Mary Sue, a sister website to Geekosystem with the intention of "highlighting women in the geek world and ensuring a central location for geek women." Abrams converted Geekosystem into The Mary Sue in 2014, reflecting the company's rapid growth and high engagement. The Mary Sue was purchased by Gamurs Group in November 2021.

Abrams' website, which was launched in May 2012, concentrated on chefs' personalities and lifestyles. According to an interview Abrams gave to The New York Times in late April, rather than recipes or techniques, the Braiser's topics include chefs who "have gone from being food icons to becoming mainstream celebrities." In 2014, it was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award. The Braiser had gone on "a short hiatus" with plans for a relaunch by 2015, but there was no further news as of 2019.

Abrams launched LawNewz, a legal news website that also broadcasts trials as part of its online network, in 2016. A&E Networks invested in the new live trial network, which is slated as the new Court TV. LawNewz was rebranded to Law&Crime on November 13, 2017 and is available on most OTT platforms and many cable television packages in the United States.

Abrams' latest media product, Ambo TV, a Christian television streaming service, was "dedicted to broadcasting Christian sermons with an in-studio discussion" on October 15, 2018. In November 2018, it was confirmed that the service would be open to the public. The station will be located at new studios built specifically for Ambo TV at Abrams Media Studios in Herald Square, New York City, and will have live broadcasting on weekends.

Abrams launched Whiskey Raiders, a website that uses a proprietary algorithm to rank whiskeys on a scale from 50 to 100. As part of the launch, Abrams purchased t8ke.review.com.

Abrams has written in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Lawyer, and The Yale Law and Policy Review. He has also written for online publications such as The Huffington Post, Daily Beast, and Mediaite.

Abrams released Man Down: Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Women Are Better Cops, Gamblers, Spies, World Leaders, Beer Tasters, Hedge Fund Managers, and Just About Everything Else. The book debuted in top-ten best seller lists on The Washington Post in July 17, 2011, and it has been translated into Russian, Indonesian, Croatian, Swedish, and Hebrew, among other languages.

Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency, Abrams' second book, Lincoln's Last Prisoner, tells the truth about Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial. The book was published in June 2018 and spent five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover non-fiction. The book "56 Best Books of 2018" was ranked No. 1 on Mental Floss' list.

Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy, Abrams' third book, Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy, which became a New York Times bestseller on May 21, 2019. Theodore Roosevelt accused his former friend and aide, now-turned Republican Party leader William Barnes Jr., of political misconduct. Barnes retaliated by suing Roosevelt for a huge sum that may have financially devastated him.

John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trials was released on March 3, 2020, making it a New York Times bestseller. In 1770, British soldiers shot and killed five civilians, according to the book. "The beginning of American freedom was born on that night," John Adams will later recall. However, when the British soldiers went on trial, the young solicitor Adams was steadfast that they were given a fair one. He volunteered to represent them, preserving the peace in a keg of a colony and creating some of the elements of what would become United States law.

In June 2021, Abrams' new book, Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby appeared. It tells the tale of Jack Ruby, the infamous nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald.

On-air appearances covering law, politics, and advertising his books have been on air, including on all three late night talk shows. He appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS and The Tonight Show on NBC.

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