Keith Morrison

Keith Morrison born July 2 1947 is a Canadian broadcast journalist Since 1995 he has been a correspondent for Dateline NBC Beginning his career in the 1960s Morrison was a reporter and anchor at local stations in Saskatchewan Vancouver British Columbia and Toronto Ontario He joined CTVs Canada AM in 1973 as a newsreader and also worked as a reporter and weekend anchor as well as a producer As a reporter at CTV he won awards for his coverage of the Yom Kippur War From 1975 to 1976 he was a reporter on CTV National News and served as National Affairs Correspondent and substitute anchor on the show from 1976 to 1979 Morrison joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1982 as substitute anchor and Chief Political Correspondent for The Journal the networks nightly public affairs program remaining until 1986 He also cohosted Midday the networks noonhour newsmagazine that he helped to create from 1984 to 1985 He moved to Los Angeles in 1986 as the evening news anchor for KNBCTV In 1988 he joined NBC News as a west coast correspondent for the NBC Nightly News and Today Show Morrison covered the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and later contributed highly acclaimed hourlong documentaries and magazine segments to various NBC programs while concurrently continuing as KNBCs anchor Morrison returned to Canada in 1992 to become coanchor of the leading national morning news program Canada AM on CTV He also hosted The Editors on PBS He was the substitute anchor for CTV National News and the heir apparent to anchor Lloyd Robertson until 1995 when he was ousted in a network shakeup It was believed at the time that he was campaigning to replace Robertson While at Canada AM then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney cancelled a live appearance after Morrison jokingly referred to him earlier in the show as whatshisname Morrison returned to NBC in 1995 as a correspondent for Dateline NBC his position as of present Morrison appeared as a newscaster in an episode of Seinfeld The Trip In the episode he reported the arrest of Kramer as a serial killer Morrisons interviews on Dateline have kept audiences watching and attracted the attention of comedians as well Saturday Night Live created a sketch with him as the central figure played by Bill Hader on November 22 2008 And on an episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers that aired on July 9 2014 Morrison appears as himself parodying his characteristic dramatic delivery of reallife murder mysteries that he is known for on Dateline In 2021 Morrison started a true crime podcast named Killer Role Matthew Perry the actor is his stepson Morrison has been married to Matthews mother Suzanne Langford since 1981 and they have 6 children including Matthew