Tony Harris (journalist)

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Tony Harris is a United States television reporter and news anchor. He has worked for CNN/U.S. since September 2004.

Harris entered broadcasting as a nineteen-year-old radio disc jockey in his hometown of 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, 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.

Now based at CNN Center in Atlanta, Harris is co-anchor with Betty Nguyen of CNN Saturday Morning and CNN Sunday Morning. He is also a frequent substitute anchor on weekday news programs including CNN Live Today and Live From...

Harris has won an Emmy Award.

He is a B.A. graduate in English from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

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