Keith Morrison

Keith Morrison is an award-winning correspondent for Dateline NBC. He joined the program in 1995 after a varied career at both NBC and in Canadian television. He has covered stories worldwide, interviewing everyone from presidents and prime ministers, student protesters under fire in Tiananmen Square, to criminals, teachers, artists, actors and authors.  

Morrison started in the 1960s as a junior reporter for a small Canadian newspaper. By the beginning of the '70s he had migrated through several radio stations and into television, where he was a reporter and anchor at local stations in Saskatchewan, Vancouver and Toronto.

He joined the Canadian CTV Network in the mid-70s, first as a morning news anchor, then correspondent, then weekend anchor and producer, and political correspondent. While at CTV, Morrison won national awards for his coverage of the "Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, and the Boat People refugee saga in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

In the early 1980s, Morrison was co-host and chief political correspondent for the CBC Network's The Journal, a nightly news and current affairs program. At "The Journal," he interviewed key newsmakers, both in Canada and worldwide, and contributed documentaries on Canadian political life. While at CBC, Morrison also helped launch (as co-host) a noon-hour network news and lifestyle program, Midday.

Morrison joined NBC in January 1986 as co-anchor of the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. news on KNBC-TV, Los Angeles. Two years later, he joined NBC News as a West Coast correspondent for NBC Nightly News and Today, among other NBC News programs.

RECENT STORIES BY KEITH MORRISON What is the real Christmas story? Who killed the lawyer's wife? Why did Susan Polk kill her husband? An ad you actually stop to watch A fugitive turns herself in after 12 years Children of war in Uganda Blogs: Coming back from Uganda a changed man Life on the lam is no life at all

In 1989, Morrison was a key contributor to NBC's coverage of the student rebellion in Beijing and the resulting massacre in Tiananmen Square. In the following years he contributed award-winning NBC News hour-long documentaries, shorter pieces for various magazine programs, and many stories on Nightly News and Today.

Morrison also continued in his role as co-anchor of the KNBC news until the summer of 1992, when he left the station and the network to return to Canada to become host of CTV's morning program, Canada-AM. In addition he was host of the syndicated program Down the Road Again with Keith Morrison, and moderated several panel discussion programs for selected stations of the PBS network.

Morrison came home to NBC in 1995, where his work has garnered Emmy, Christopher, Sigma Delta Chi and Edward R. Murrow awards among others.

He is married to Suzanne Perry Morrison, a writer and artist. They have six children.

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