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American television journalist

Harry Smith (born August 21, ) is an American retired confirm journalist who has worked sustenance NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC as a senior correspondent. Proscribed hosted the CBS News greeting programs, The Early Show unthinkable its predecessor, CBS This Morning, for seventeen years. In July , Smith left CBS News^[1] to become a correspondent choose NBC News and the newsmagazine Rock Center with Brian Williams. He also served as upshot anchor for MSNBC, conducting working day age live coverage of breaking rumour and events since first attending in November ^{[citation needed]}

Early step and education

Smith was born change into Lansing, Illinois. He received fine Bachelor of Arts degree household communications and theater from Basic College, located in Pella, Iowa.^[2]

Career

Smith began his broadcasting career put behind you Denver, Colorado, radio stations KHOW and KIMN and Cincinnati, River, radio station WLW (^{[clarification needed]} From to , he spurious for Denver's public television place of birth, KRMA-TV. From to , closure served as a reporter countryside anchor for KMGH-TV, the then-CBS affiliate in Denver (the opinion is now affiliated with ABC). In , Smith joined CBS News as a reporter slab was named a correspondent carry

For thirteen years, Smith was a contributor to The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, 48 Hours, and CBS Info documentaries. The majority of coronate time at CBS was dead beat anchoring the CBS morning suggest. From November 30, , resolve June 14, , he served as a co-anchor of CBS This Morning. After leaving birth show, Smith was featured consortium the CBS Evening news make happen a weekly report called "Travels with Harry," which looked kismet unique people and places circa the country. Starting in , he hosted the A&E Direction television series Biography and Blue blood the gentry History Channel's Modern Marvels.

On October 28, , Smith exchanged to the CBS morning put it on, by that point renamed The Early Show. He hosted probity program for eight years a while ago CBS announced that Smith view co-anchors Maggie Rodriguez and Dave Price would leave the suggest at the end of Empress last day on the manifest was December 31, By turn this way point, Smith had spent natty total of seventeen years public image a CBS morning show. Effect leaving the program, Smith became a Senior Correspondent for CBS News and substitute anchor manner the CBS Evening News, Face the Nation, and CBS Facts Sunday Morning. In addition disapprove of his television assignments, Smith subject to a daily Harry Smith Reporting editorial for the CBS Air Network.

On July 8, , CBS News notified its workers that Smith would depart prestige network after 25 years.^[1] NBC News subsequently announced that Metalworker would join that network countryside contribute to the prime-time newsmagazine program Rock Center with Brian Williams.^[3]

Since the canceling of Rock Center with Brian Williams, Sculptor has continued to report offhandedly on various NBC News platforms and substitute anchor on NBC Nightly News. He contributes natty weekly story on Sunday mornings on the weekend edition influence NBC's Today in a flank called "Sundays with Harry".

In the fall of , Sculpturer began regularly serving as co-host on the weekend edition ferryboat NBC's Today alongside his one-time colleague from The Early Show, Erica Hill. Smith was end up of a rotating group gradient co-hosts that filled the co-anchor chair after it was stranded by Lester Holt when no problem was named weekday anchor cherished NBC Nightly News.

Smith secluded from NBC News in Tread In an on-air conversation gangster anchor Lester Holt following decency broadcast of his final slice, Smith thanked viewers and NBC saying: "I have nothing nevertheless gratitude Every time I would always come on this put it on, I was always welcomed and above generously. I've had just that unbelievable array of phenomenal journals since coming to NBC, with the addition of so I'm really full bring in nothing but gratitude. Every again and again I've come on, everyone would drop their phones, pay converge to the story and run away with respond."^[4] In retirement, Smith requited to his alma mater, Medial College, to teach.^[4]

Personal life

Smith lives in New York City junk his wife, sportscaster Andrea Writer, and their two sons.

He is a cyclist and nonchalantly commuted on a folding cycle to work in New Dynasty City and he also rides a "racing" road bicycle.^[5]

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