Harold Greene

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Harold Greene is an award-winning journalist is best known working for KCAL 9 News and CBS 2 News in Los Angeles. Having experience for thirty-three years, Greene covered the Southern California area and reported major stories.

In the 1970s, Greene had covered the Chicano rights demonstration, anti-war protests, and the feminist movement. Greene also produced the Howard Express, a television news magazine show, as well as a musical variety show called Homegrown and Howard. For his efforts of both shows, Greene won an Iris Award from the National Association of Television Program Executives as well a local Emmy Award.

In the 1980s, Greene also earned a Golden Mike Award for reporting for the Cerritos mid-air disaster.

When hosting in the AM Los Angeles, he interviewed the top newsmakers as well entertainment's top stars. In the 1990s, he moved to KABC-TV's Eyewitness News at 5 and 11. There, he covered every event in California, from gun control to gang violence and from the homeless to immigration. Greene also interviewed every U.S. president since Richard Nixon.

Greene's honors include the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Award, nine Emmy nominations, which he won two, three Edward R. Murrow Awards, ten Golden Mike Awards, twelve L.A. Press Club Awards, and a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Will Ferrell's character in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is thought to have been inspired by Harold Greene.^{[citation needed]}