Mike Straka
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Mike Straka is the vice president and executive producer of FOX News Digital, he is a commentator on Hollywood and celebrity topics, as well as sports, whose column runs on the Fox News website. Straka is the Executive Producer of Strategy Room [1] on FOXNews.com and is the host of FOX Fight Game [2].
Biography
Straka was born October 10, 1969 in Newark, New Jersey to a Hungarian father and a Chilean mother. After graduating from Monsignor Donovan High School, he studied acting at Rutgers University and moved to New York City to begin his career, where he specialized in various commercials while continuing his studies. He was picked up by CBS as a page for television production. Among a variety of other jobs that he held at the network was that of a desk assistant. He eventually transferred to Fox News.
Straka joined FNC just prior to the network launch in 1996, and he has served as a tape operator, writer, associate producer, producer, Intranet Administrator for affiliate news service FOX News Edge, and director of operations and special projects for FOXNews.com, and has contributed on-air as a regular features reporter on FOX Magazine. Fox news assignments have included the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, UT, the 78th annual Academy Awards, Super Bowls, American Idol finales, and behind the scenes with The Rolling Stones, as well as various newsmaker and entertainment headliners. Mike also assisted in FNC's coverage of the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks at the World Trade Center as a field producer and reporter.
Straka is the foremost Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) reporter in the mainstream media, and according to the Universal Field Competitions (UFC), was the first one giving the sport of MMA a fair shake among the big time journalists dating back to 2000 before a slew of other reporters jumped on the bandwagon.
Book
His first book, "GRRR! Celebs And Other Reasons Why We're All In Trouble," from St. Martins Press, delves into the celebrity obsessed culture and the phenomenon of Oblivions (people so oblivious to their surroundings they are rude and never know it) -- from his GRRR! Lexicon.