Morton Dean

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Morton Dean (born Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American television news journalist who has worked for CBS News & ABC News since the mid-1960s.

Dean is currently a Partner at corporate and executive communications firm of M.E. Communications Partners. He also writes on a freelance basis and lectures to diverse audiences. Dean, a graduate of Emerson College, worked as a local radio and television reporter for stations in Massachusetts and New York state before joining CBS in 1967. There, he specialized in coverage of the U.S. space program, national politics and the Vietnam War. During much of his tenure at CBS, Dean anchored weekend editions of CBS Evening News. He left CBS in 1985 and worked freelance for some time until joining ABC in 1988. For some years, he anchored the newscasts on the network's Good Morning America (1993-1996)but traveled extensively covering breaking stories around the world. More recent years have witnessed Dean doing voiceover work for documentaries on A&E and The History Channel, in addition to writing a book on sports injuries.