Byron Harris
Byron Harris
Byron Harris is an investigative reporter at WFAA-TV in Dallas. During his 38 years with Belo Corp., 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 been noted for his investigative work with two George Foster Peabody Awards as well as five DuPont Columbia Batons, including the only Gold Baton ever awarded to a local commercial television station. He has received three Edward R. Murrow Awards, the National Press Club Award for Consumer Reporting, an Aviation and Space Writers National Award, and two Gerald Loeb Awards for Business Reporting.
He has covered Texans in events as diverse as the first landing of the space shuttle, wars in Somalia (1992) and Iraq (2003 and 2005), and perestroika in Eastern and Western Siberia.
Harris has been a contributor to Nightline and the Nightly Business Report. In addition to broadcast journalism, he has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, 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.
Harris has been noted for his investigative work with two George Foster Peabody Awards as well as five DuPont Columbia Batons, including the only Gold Baton ever awarded to a local commercial television station. He has received three Edward R. Murrow Awards, the National Press Club Award for Consumer Reporting, an Aviation and Space Writers National Award, and two Gerald Loeb Awards for Business Reporting.
He has covered Texans in events as diverse as the first landing of the space shuttle, wars in Somalia (1992) and Iraq (2003 and 2005), and perestroika in Eastern and Western Siberia.
Harris has been a contributor to Nightline and the Nightly Business Report. In addition to broadcast journalism, he has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, 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.
