| Rob Morrison | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 17, 1968 |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Wife — Ashley |
| Children | One son — Jack |
| Years active | Since early 1990s |
Rob Morrison (born May 17, 1968) is an American television journalist.
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He grew up in Holden, Massachusetts, with his parents, Robert and Donna, and his sister, Traci, who is six years his junior. Morrison attended Saint John's High School, a private, Catholic Church-affiliated boys' high school located in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
Morrison began his broadcasting career as a combat correspondent while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a radio disc jockey and news anchor and reporter while stationed on Okinawa, Japan, in the early 1990s. As a civilian, Morrison began his career at WGMC-TV in Worcester, Massachusetts. He later worked in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut.
In 1999, Morrison began a nine-year period at WNBC, a local broadcast-television station located in New York City, New York, and the flagship station of the NBC broadcast-television network. He started as a co-anchor of Weekend Today in New York, the station's weekend edition of Today in New York, its early-morning, local-news-and-entertainment television program. In 2001, Morrison moved to the station's weekday-evening newscasts.
In 2004, he was made a co-anchor of the weekday edition of Today in New York, alongside Darlene Rodriguez, and stayed in that position until 2008 when he left the station. During Morrison's time with WNBC, he also served as a correspondent for NBC News, as well as a news reader for Weekend Today, also an early-morning, news-and-entertainment television program and a production of NBC News.
After leaving WNBC and NBC, Morrison wrote a blog, "Daddy Diaries — Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Anchorman", which was published on The Huffington Post, a news website and content-aggregating blog.
In 2009, he joined WCBS, a local broadcast-television station also located in New York City — and the flagship station of the CBS broadcast-television network — where Morrison has anchored the station's morning and evening weekend newscasts. On December 20, 2010, an article in the Daily News reported that he will co-anchor — with Mary Calvi — the weekday editions of CBS 2 News This Morning, the station's early-morning news program.[1]
Morrison has extensive overseas reporting experience including assignments in Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar and Haiti.
His wife, Ashley Morrison, is a business anchor for CBS MoneyWatch, a personal-finance blogging website that provides advice on retirement, investing, savings, career and real estate. Previously, she was the stocks editor at Bloomberg Television, a business- and financial-news, cable-television channel.
Morrison has a son Jack.
He is a fan of the Grateful Dead, the American jam band, and can still be spotted at "Dead"-related concerts and events in the New York City area. As Morrison admitted often during the sports segments of WNBC newscasts, he is also a fan of the Boston Red Sox.