His reporting has taken him around the Mediterranean covering numerous topics in nearly a dozen countries. His current focus is on migration and refugees, and in 2016 Eric was a finalist in for a National Magazine Award and for the Kurt Schork Memorial Award for International Journalism for his work on Ghost Boat – an investigative series about the disappearance of 243 people in the Mediterranean Sea. His writing has appeared in WIRED Magazine, the New Republic Medium.com and Foreign Policy, among other outlets.