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Keith Morrison | |
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| Born | (1947-07-02)July 2, 1947 (age 78) Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Education | University of Saskatchewan |
| Occupation | NBC News correspondent |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 6[1] |
| Relatives | Matthew Perry (stepson) |
Keith Morrison (born July 2, 1947) is a Canadian broadcast journalist. Since 1995, he has been a correspondent forDateline NBC.
Beginning his career in the 1960s, Morrison was a reporter and anchor at local stations inSaskatchewan,Vancouver,British Columbia andToronto,Ontario.[citation needed]
He joinedCTV'sCanada AM in 1973 as a newsreader and also worked as a reporter and weekend anchor as well as a producer. As a reporter at CTV, he won awards for his coverage of theYom Kippur War. From 1975 to 1976, he was a reporter onCTV National News and served as National Affairs Correspondent and substitute anchor on the show from 1976 to 1979.[citation needed]
Morrison joined theCanadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1982 as substitute anchor and Chief Political Correspondent forThe Journal, the network's nightly public affairs program, remaining until 1986. He also co-hostedMidday, the network's noon-hour newsmagazine that he helped to create, from 1984 to 1985.[citation needed]
He moved toLos Angeles in 1986 as the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. news anchor forKNBC-TV. In 1988 he joinedNBC News as a west coast correspondent for theNBC Nightly News andToday Show. Morrison covered theTiananmen Square protests of 1989 and later contributed highly acclaimed hour-long documentaries and magazine segments to various NBC programs while concurrently continuing as KNBC's anchor.[citation needed]
Morrison returned to Canada in 1992 to become co-anchor of the leading national morning news program,Canada AM on CTV. He also hostedThe Editors on PBS. He was the substitute anchor forCTV National News and the heir apparent to anchorLloyd Robertson until 1995, when he was ousted in a network shakeup. It was believed at the time that he was campaigning to replace Robertson. While atCanada AM, then Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney cancelled a live appearance after Morrison jokingly referred to him earlier in the show as "whatshisname".[citation needed]
Morrison returned to NBC in 1995 as a correspondent forDateline NBC, his position as of 2023.[1] He appeared as a newscaster in an episode ofSeinfeld, "The Trip". In the episode, he reported the arrest ofKramer as a serial killer.[2]
Morrison's interviews onDateline have kept audiences watching and attracted the attention of comedians as well.Saturday Night Live created a sketch with him as the central figure played byBill Hader on November 22, 2008. And on an episode ofLate Night with Seth Meyers that aired on July 9, 2014, Morrison appears as himself, parodying his characteristic dramatic delivery of real-life murder mysteries that he is known for onDateline.[citation needed]
In 1981, Morrison married Suzanne Perry (née Langford), a writer, consultant, one-time news anchor[3] and political fundraiser who was alsopress secretary to formerCanadian Prime MinisterPierre Trudeau. They have four children. Morrison also has a son from a previous marriage,[4] and was the stepfather of actorMatthew Perry, Suzanne's son from a previous marriage to actorJohn Bennett Perry.[4][5]
Following Matthew Perry's death in 2023, the Morrisons launched the Matthew Perry Foundation to support people recovering from addiction.[6]
Morrison's reporting style has been parodied onSaturday Night Live by cast memberBill Hader. On the March 30, 2009, episode ofLate Night with Jimmy Fallon, Hader, referencing the fact that Morrison works in30 Rockefeller Plaza, where bothDateline NBC andSaturday Night Live are produced, jokingly stated that he lived in fear of getting into the same elevator as Morrison.[7] The two actually would meet during a Hader interview onWeekend Today. "I can't give him pointers, he's the master," Hader said. "I don't know how you get better than Keith Morrison."[8]
