Background
Johnson was born and raised in San Francisco, California.
Johnson was born and raised in San Francisco, California.
He graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Television and Radio Broadcasting.
His career has taken him through four states and Washington, District of Columbia Early in his career, he was an evening weekday anchor and reporter for KSL-television, an National Broadcasting Company-affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah. He began as on-air career, as an evening weekend anchor and reporter for KNDO / KNDU, the National Broadcasting Company-affiliated duopoly Yakima / Tri-Cities, Washington.
He joined Columbia Broadcasting System News, as a network correspondent and fill-in anchor in 2009. He earned many accolades for his reporting in the White House, Capitol Hill and on foreign policy issues.
He joined National Broadcasting Company, LA, California in 2012, as a general assignment reporter, he traveled to Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics, reporting from Boston for Mitt Romney"s 2012 presidential run, he covered the Washington District of Columbia Navy Yard mass shootings and the Asiana flight 214 crash landing in San Francisco International Airport.
In June 2014, he joined Today in Los Angeles, as co-anchor alongside Daniella Guzman replacing Michael Brownlee who was moved to the station"s noon newscasts and Michelle Valles who was moved to the weekend morning newscasts.