Dan Harris (II) Biography
Dan Harris (born Daniel B. Harris) is an American award-winning anchor/reporter working for ABC News. He serves as an anchor for Nightline and a co-anchor for the weekend edition of Good Morning America.
Dan Harris (II) Age
Harris is 50 years old as of 2021. He was born on July 26, 1971, in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. He celebrates his birthday on the 26th of July every year.
Dan Harris (II) Height
Harris stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Dan Harris (II) Family
Harris is Nancy Lee Harris’ son and Jay R. Harris’ son. His father is the chair of Harvard University’s radiation oncology residency program and his mother is a pathologist at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital and a lymphoma expert. Matthew Carmichael Harris, his younger brother, is a venture capitalist. Harris graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, in 1993.
Dan Harris (II) Wife
He is married to Dr. Bianca Harris, a Pulmonologist. The couple wedded on May 200 in New York, they together have a son Alexander Robert Harris born on December 15, 2014.
Dan Harris (II) Net Worth
Harris has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million -$5 Million which he has earned through his career as a journalist.
Dan Harris (II) Salary
Harris earns an annual salary ranging from $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.
Dan Harris (II) Career
Harris serves at ABC News as an anchor for Nightline and co-anchor for the weekend edition of Good Morning America. In March 2000, Harris first joined ABC News and has covered many of the greatest stories in recent years. He reported on mass shootings from Haiti to Myanmar to New Orleans in Newtown, Connecticut, Aurora, Colorado, and Tucson, Arizona, and natural disasters.
He has also covered the fighting in Afghanistan, Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, and has visited Iraq on six occasions. For ABC News, he traveled the globe, embedding with an isolated Amazonian Indian tribe, questioning drug lords in Rio’s lawless slums, and confronting Philip Morris International’s chief about selling cigarettes to Indonesian minors.
For his journalistic contributions, Harris has been honored several times. He received an Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting on a young Iraqi man who received the assistance he needed to move to America and won Emmy Awards for international reporting on Nightline in 2009 and 2014. He received the ASPCA Presidential Service Award for Media Excellence in 2013.
In 2014, Harris published the book, 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head It went to #1 on the Bestsellers List of the New York Times and then became an app designed to teach skeptics meditation, and a podcast to talk to smart people about whether there’s anything beyond 10%.
It was a priority for Harris to shine a light on the most vulnerable populations in the world, producing stories about child slaves in Haiti, young people accused of witchcraft in the Congo, and predatory pedophiles traveling from the U.S. to Cambodia. From such diverse datelines as Namibia, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, and Nepal, it has also covered endangered animals.
Domestically, with a particular focus on the evangelical movement, Harris has led ABC News’ coverage of faith. He did one of the first interviews after his sex and drug scandal with former pastor Ted Haggard. Mormon apostles, Roman Catholic cardinals, self-help gurus, and atheists have also been interviewed by him.
Harris has reported on politics, business, and criminal justice in other domestic coverage, including once spending 48 hours locked up in solitary confinement for a story about whether this form of incarceration is inhumane. From 1997 to 2000, Harris was an anchor at New England Cable News (NECN), the country’s largest regional cable news network, prior to joining ABC News.
Before that, he had been an anchor and political reporter for two years at WCSH, an NBC affiliate in Portland, Maine. As a reporter for WLBZ, the NBC affiliate in Bangor, Maine, he began his broadcasting career. When coming to her education, Harris holds honorary doctorate degrees from Colby and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts as a graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Dan Harris (II) ABC News
Harris (II) is working at ABC News where she works alongside other famous ABC News anchors and reporters including;
- John Quiñones
- Karen Travers
- Pierre Thomas
- Cecilia Vega
- Elizabeth Vargas
- David Wright
- Nick Watt
- Jeff Zeleny
- Ginger Zee
Dan Harris (II) Social Media Platforms
Harris is active on his social media accounts and is often seen posting on his Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. He has over 197.3k followers on Twitter, over 78.1k followers on Instagram, and over 88.5k followers on Facebook.