‘Very, Very Sad News’: Dax Tejera, Executive Producer of ABC This Week, Dies at Only 37 - Mediaite

Dax Tejera, the executive producer of ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, died of a bosom onslaught Friday evening, conscionable a fewer weeks shy of his 38th birthday.

ABC News president Kim Godwin announced the quality of Tejera’s passing “with a dense bosom and large sadness” successful a connection to web staff:

ABC News Family,

It’s with a dense bosom and large sadness that we stock that our person and colleague, Dax Tejera passed distant abruptly of a bosom onslaught past night.

As EP of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” Dax’s energy, passionateness and emotion for that show, ABC News, and you, shined each Sunday morning. That aforesaid emotion was extended to his precious girls.

Our thoughts are with his wife, Veronica, the couple’s 2 young daughters, and the full Tejera family.

If you request contiguous support, delight telephone our 24/7EAP enactment line.

We volition stock much details successful the coming days.

On this Christmas Eve, hug your loved ones a small tighter. And delight thin connected each another.

#oneabcnews

Kim

“Some very, precise bittersweet quality to study connected Christmas Eve,” wrote TV Newser elder editor A.J. Katz, covering immoderate of the awesome accomplishments successful Tejera’s vocation contempt his young age, including helping shepherd This Week to the number 1 spot among the advertiser-prized demographic of adults ages 25-54.

Tejera was named enforcement shaper of This Week astatine the tender property of 35, conscionable weeks earlier the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the newscast rapidly climbed to No. 1 among Adults 25-54. He joined ABC News arsenic a elder shaper successful the Washington Bureau successful 2017 producing remote-anchored broadcasts from crossed the state and specials from the Trump-Kim acme successful Singapore and Trump-Putin acme successful Helsinki. Prior to overseeing the Sunday amusement arsenic enforcement producer, Tejera managed newsmaker interviews and covered large breaking news, including the ongoing pandemic, the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination and the January 6th riot astatine the Capitol.

In addition, Tejera worked connected galore broadcast and streaming peculiar events for ABC News. In September 2021 helium co-executive produced Corazón de América – Celebrating Hispanic Culture, a primetime peculiar for ABC that honored the contributions and achievements of the much than 60 cardinal radical who assertion Latino and Hispanic practice successful the United States. He besides served arsenic the enforcement shaper for primetime streaming predetermination specials starring up to the 2018 midterms and launched shows designed to grow ABC News’ streaming programming, including The Briefing Room, an instant investigation of notable moments successful the White House property briefing room.

Before his tenure astatine ABC News, Tejera worked arsenic an duty exertion and researcher astatine NBC News, arsenic a shaper astatine MSNBC, and arsenic the enforcement shaper of America with Jorge Ramos.

Tejera is survived by his wife, Veronica, and their 2 young daughters, Ella and Sofia.

News of his abrupt passing was met with daze and grief by his colleagues astatine ABC and others successful the media industry.

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