Dan Harris (journalist)

Dan Harris (born July 26, 1971) is a correspondent for ABC News and the co-anchor for the weekend edition of Good Morning America.

Career

A 1993 graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, Harris began his career as an anchor for WCSH in Portland, Maine. He anchored World News Sunday 2006-2011 and frequently anchors World News, World News with Diane Sawyer's webcast. He is also a frequent contributor to World News. He also anchored ABC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina in September 2005. In October 2010, he was named the new co-anchor for the weekend edition of Good Morning America, succeeding Bill Weir.

He also occasionally does news reports for CBN's The 700 Club program. He also made an appearance in an episode of 19 Kids and Counting.

Personal Life

Harris' father is Jay R. Harris, the chair of Harvard's radiation oncology residency program and recipient of the 2007 American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Gold Medal. His mother, Nancy Lee Harris, is a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and is a world authority on lymphomas.

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