About Eric Seals

SEALS, ERIC is a staff photographer at the Detroit Free Press, Michigan's largest newspaper. Eric covers University of Michigan football and Detroit's pro sports teams along with news, picture stories and recently moved into multimedia reporting; gathering audio for some of his stories, doing video car reviews and short feature video stories. Born and raised in Detroit, he knew in high school that he wanted to be a photojournalist and made it a goal to work one day at the Detroit Free Press. Eric graduated from the University of Missouri-School of Journalism in 1993 after doing internships at the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, the Louisville Courier-Journal, The State Newspaper in Columbia, SC, and in 1999 joined the staff of the Detroit Free Press. Over the years Eric has covered many events from NBA Finals, World Series and Super Bowls to hurricanes in the Carolinas, the two intifadas in Israel/Palestine from 2000 through 2002, five months covering the war in Iraq and is heading to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China in late July. Seals likes to mentor others who are interested in this great profession and loves doing activities with his wife and two kids ages three and eight. His personal website is ericseals.com.