Byron Harris is a senior reporter at Channel 8. During his 30 years with Belo Corp., which owns WFAA-TV, he has served as a news manager at WFAA-TV, senior producer for Prime Time Texas, and assistant news director at KHOU-TV in Houston.

Harris has won several awards as a broadcast journalist, including three Columbia duPont Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the National Press Club Award for Consumer Reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi Bronze Award and an Aviation and Space Writers national award, and two Gerald Loeb Awards for Business Reporting.

He has received twelve Katie Awards from the Dallas Press Club and five Headliner Awards from the Headliners Foundation in Austin.

He has been a contributor to Nightline and the Nightly Business Report. In addition to his TV work, he has written for The Wall Street Journal, Texas Monthly, and Air & Space magazine.

Harris received his bachelor's degree in English and Sociology from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University.

When did you decide you wanted to be a journalist?
I decided to be a journalist during my last few months in the army in 1971.

What’s your favorite thing to do in Dallas-Fort Worth?
Watch the sunset in my backyard with my wife and my dogs.

If you could interview anyone alive you haven’t interviewed, who would you and why?
Steven Colbert

What made you want to get into the news business?
To help people.

Tell us about a story that you are particularly proud to have brought to the public's attention.
A recent two year investigation of the export import bank.

How do you convince reluctant sources to appear on-camera?
I try to tell them an interview might help publicize an important issue.

How do you define success?
Helping people.

Tell us one reason why you love what you do.
Meeting a variety of people in unpredictable circumstances.

What quality do you have to have to make it in this business?  
Perseverance.