Keith Morrison, born on July 2, 1947, is a renowned Canadian broadcast journalist. With a career spanning over five decades, he has been a correspondent for Dateline NBC since 1995.
Morrison began his journey in the 1960s, working as a reporter and anchor at local stations in Saskatchewan, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Toronto, Ontario. He joined CTV's Canada AM in 1973 as a newsreader and later worked as a reporter, weekend anchor, and producer. During his time at CTV, he won awards for his coverage of the Yom Kippur War.
From 1975 to 1976, Morrison was a reporter on CTV National News, and from 1976 to 1979, he served as National Affairs Correspondent and substitute anchor on the show. He then joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1982 as substitute anchor and Chief Political Correspondent for The Journal, remaining until 1986. Morrison also co-hosted Midday, the network's noon-hour newsmagazine, from 1984 to 1985.
In 1986, Morrison moved to Los Angeles as the evening news anchor for KNBC-TV. Two years later, he joined NBC News as a west coast correspondent for the NBC Nightly News and Today Show. He covered the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and later contributed highly acclaimed hour-long documentaries and magazine segments to various NBC programs while continuing as KNBC's anchor.
Morrison returned to Canada in 1992 to become co-anchor of the leading national morning news program, Canada AM on CTV. He also hosted The Editors on PBS. He was the substitute anchor for CTV National News and the heir apparent to anchor Lloyd Robertson until 1995, when he was ousted in a network shakeup.
In 1995, Morrison returned to NBC as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, a position he still holds today. He has appeared as a newscaster in an episode of Seinfeld, "The Trip," and has been parodied on Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Morrison has been married to Suzanne Langford since 1981, and they have six children, including Matthew Perry, the actor.
