Keith Morrison (?- )

• Correspondent, NBC News, "Dateline NBC"
• born in Lloydmister, Saskatchewan
• received his bachelor's degree in history in 1966 form the University of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• began his journalism career in 1966 as a reporter for The Star Phoenix in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• held a number of television anchor/reporting positions at CFTO-TV, Toronto; CHAN-TV (now BCTV), Vancouver; and CFOC, Saskatoon
• was a news anchor for "Canada A.M.," a national news-and-information television program produced by CTV, from December 1973 to January 1975
• was a mid-Canada correspondent for CTV News from January 1975 to February 1976, and then served as anchor/reporter for CTV News from February 1976 to July 1979
• became national affairs correspondent and anchor for CTV News from July 1979 to June 1982
• held a variety of correspondent and anchor positions with the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC)
• from 1982 to 1986, he was a correspondent and anchor for CBC's "The Journal," a nightly news and current affairs program
• from November 1984 to July 1985, he was instrumental in the development of "Midday," the network's first daytime news and interview program
• was named an NBC News Correspondent, based in Los Angeles, in March 1988
• has covered a wide range of breaking news stories on the West Coast and in Asia
• reported from China in May and June 1989, during the student rebellion in Beijing, and the Chinese military reaction
• married to Suzanne Perry Morrison, a writer, consultant and political fund-raiser who was also press secretary to Prime Minister Trudeau
• they have four children
• step-father of Mathew Perry

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