Tony Harris (journalist)

Tony Harris is a United States television reporter and news anchor. He has worked for CNN/U.S. since September 2004. Beginning on September 4, 2006, Harris started to co-anchor the first section of each day's "CNN Newsroom" newscast with Heidi Collins.

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.

Based at CNN Center in Atlanta, Harris co-anchored "CNN Saturday Morning" and "CNN Sunday Morning" with Betty Nguyen until he made the move to anchor CNN Newsroom. He is also a frequent substitute anchor on weekday news programs including "American Morning"

Harris has won an Emmy Award.

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