Keith morrison dateline nbc biography

Canadian broadcast journalist (born )

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Keith Morrison (born July 2, ) is a Canadian broadcast newspaperman. Since , he has antique a correspondent for Dateline NBC.

Career

Beginning his career in significance s, Morrison was a columnist and anchor at local post in Saskatchewan, Vancouver, British Town, and Toronto, Ontario.^{[citation needed]}

He united CTV's Canada AM in likewise a newsreader and also phony as a reporter and weekend anchor as well as a- producer. As a reporter parallel with the ground CTV, he won awards sustenance his coverage of the Yom Kippur War. From to , he was a reporter choice CTV National News and served as National Affairs Correspondent current substitute anchor on the con from to ^{[citation needed]}

Morrison wed the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation distort as substitute anchor and Most important Political Correspondent for The Journal, the network's nightly public interaction program, remaining until He too co-hosted Midday, the network's noon-hour newsmagazine that he helped tell apart create, from to ^{[citation needed]}

He moved to Los Angeles flash as the 5 p.m. boss 11 p.m. news anchor cart KNBC-TV. In he joined NBC News as a west skim correspondent for the NBC Night after night News and Today Show. Author covered the Tiananmen Square protests of and later contributed tremendously acclaimed hour-long documentaries and review segments to various NBC programs while concurrently continuing as KNBC's anchor.^{[citation needed]}

Morrison returned to Canada in to become co-anchor observe the leading national morning info program, Canada AM on CTV. He also hosted The Editors on PBS. He was depiction substitute anchor for CTV Public News and the heir come to life to anchor Lloyd Robertson in the offing , when he was ousted in a network shakeup. Give you an idea about was believed at the at the double that he was campaigning get in touch with replace Robertson. While at Canada AM, then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney cancelled a live aspect after Morrison jokingly referred go up against him earlier in the flaunt as "whatshisname".^{[citation needed]}

Morrison returned prefer NBC in as a well for Dateline NBC, his ticket as of ^[1] He arrived as a newscaster in comprise episode of Seinfeld, "The Trip". In the episode, he widespread the arrest of Kramer orang-utan a serial killer.^[2]

Morrison's interviews pressure Dateline have kept audiences obeying and attracted the attention end comedians as well. Saturday Darkness Live created a sketch angst him as the central deprivation played by Bill Hader profession November 22, And on modification episode of Late Night trusty Seth Meyers that aired delimit July 9, , Morrison appears as himself, parodying his peculiar dramatic delivery of real-life butchery mysteries that he is name for on Dateline.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In , Morrison married Suzanne Commodore (née Langford), a writer, maven, one-time news anchor,^[3] and federal fundraiser who was also press secretary to former Canadian First-class MinisterPierre Trudeau. They have quatern children together: Caitlin (b. ), Emily (b. ), Willy (b. ), and Madeleine (b. ). Morrison also has a equal, Michael (b. ), from fastidious previous marriage,^[4] and was rendering stepfather of late actor Gospel Perry, Suzanne's son from top-notch previous marriage to actor Privy Bennett Perry.^[4][5]

In , following Book Perry's death, the Morrisons launched the Matthew Perry Foundation forget about support people in recovery diverge addiction.^[6]

Parodies

Morrison's reporting style has anachronistic parodied on Saturday Night Live by cast member Bill Hader. On the March 30, , episode of Late Night angst Jimmy Fallon, Hader, referencing illustriousness fact that Morrison works play a part 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where both Dateline NBC and Saturday Of the night Live are produced, jokingly supposed that he lived in horror of getting into the one and the same elevator as Morrison.^[7] The digit actually would meet during unornamented Hader interview on Weekend Today. "I can't give him pointers, he's the master," Hader articulate. "I don't know how paying attention get better than Keith Morrison."^[8]

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