Education
University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Previously Harris was a news anchor at First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera English and Cable News Network.
Tony Harris is a Bachelor of Arts graduate in English from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He entered broadcasting as a nineteen-year-old radio disc jockey in his native 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-television in Atlanta, Georgia.
Based at Cable News Network Center in Atlanta, Harris co-anchored Cable News Network Saturday Morning and Cable News Network Sunday Morning with Betty Nguyen until he made the move to anchor Cable News Network Newsroom on September 8, 2008.
He was also a frequent substitute anchor on weekday news programs including American Morning. He left Cable News Network at the end of December 2010.
In April 2011, Harris debuted as an anchor on First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera English. His first broadcast was at 1600GMT on April 12, 2011.
On August 20, 2013, he debuted as an anchor on First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera America.
His first broadcast was the first regularly scheduled program ever on the network with the news at 4:00 pm eastern time.