Tony Harris (journalist)
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Tony Harris | |
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Born | 1959 (age 64–65) Baltimore, Maryland |
Alma mater | University of Maryland, Baltimore County, (B.A.) |
Occupation | Journalist, Anchorman |
Notable credit(s) | Al Jazeera America News Al Jazeera English Newshour CNN Saturday Morning CNN Sunday Morning CNN Newsroom |
Tony Harris (born 1959)[1] is a US-American television reporter, news anchor and producer, currently with Investigation Discovery. Previously Harris was a news anchor at Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera America and CNN.[2]
Life and career
Tony Harris is a B.A. graduate in English from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
He entered broadcasting as a nineteen-year-old radio disc jockey in his native Baltimore, Maryland. Two years later, he moved to television as a features reporter for an afternoon newsmagazine in Cleveland, Ohio. He rose to co-host. Moving to New York City, he worked as an entertainment reporter for Entertainment Tonight and the Home Box Office. He returned to Cleveland in the early 1990s as a weekend news anchor, then again to New York City, and Los Angeles, as a reporter for the Fox Network prime time newsmagazine Front Page.
He returned to local news as lead anchor for WBFF and WNUV in Baltimore, and then for WGCL-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, before joining CNN in September 2004. Based at CNN Center in Atlanta,[2] Harris co-anchored CNN Saturday Morning and CNN Sunday Morning with Betty Nguyen until he made the move to anchor CNN Newsroom on September 8, 2008. He was also a frequent substitute anchor on weekday news programs including American Morning. Harris has won an Emmy Award.
He left CNN at the end of December 2010.[3]
In April 2011, Harris debuted as an anchor on Al Jazeera English. His first broadcast was at 1600GMT on April 12, 2011.[4]
On August 20, 2013, he debuted as an anchor on Al Jazeera America. His first broadcast was the first regularly scheduled program ever on the network with the news at 4:00 p.m. eastern time.
In 2020, Harris began hosting the podcast Monster: DC Sniper.[5]
References in popular culture
After Harris criticized NASA for naming the new space station treadmill after comedian Stephen Colbert, Colbert responded on September 30, 2009 by naming his in-studio toilet the H.A.R.R.I.S. (Human Ass Receiving Receptacle In Studio).[6]
References
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