Career

Morrison began his broadcasting career as a combat correspondent while serving in the United States. Marine Corps. He was a radio disc jockey and news anchor and reporter while stationed on Okinawa, Japan, in the early 1990s. As a civilian, Morrison began his career at WGMC-television in Worcester, Massachusetts.

He later worked at WWLP-television in Springfield, Massachusetts, and in Hartford, Connecticut.

As a foreign correspondent, he reported from Iraq and Qatar during the Second Gulf War. Afghanistan, where he embedded with the Marines during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001.

And Haiti. In 1999, Morrison began a nine-year period at W National Broadcasting Company, the New York City, flagship station of the National Broadcasting Company broadcast-television network.

There he co-anchored Today in New York and Weekend Today in New York, the station"s early-morning, local-news-and-entertainment television program In 2001, Morrison moved to the station"s weekend-evening newscasts.

In 2004, he was made a co-anchor of the weekday edition of Today in New York, alongside Darlene Rodriguez, and stayed in that position until 2008 when he left the station. During Morrison"s time with W National Broadcasting Company, he also served as a correspondent for National Broadcasting Company News, as well as a news reader for Weekend Today, also an early-morning, news-and-entertainment television program and a production of National Broadcasting Company News.

After leaving W National Broadcasting Company and National Broadcasting Company, Morrison wrote a blog, Daddy Diaries – Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Anchorman, which was published on The Huffington Post, a news website and content-aggregating blog.

In 2009, he joined WCBS, a local broadcast-television station also located in New York City – and the flagship station of the Columbia Broadcasting System broadcast-television network – where Morrison has anchored the station"s morning and evening weekend newscasts. On December 20, 2010, he was named co-anchor, with Mary Calvi, of the weekday editions of Columbia Broadcasting System 2 News This Morning, the station"s early-morning news program, and on newscasts beginning January 3, 2011. On February 20, 2013, Morrison resigned from his $300,000-a-year position at WCBS-television