Harry Smith (born August 21, 1951) is an American television journalist working for

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, and

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as a senior correspondent. He hosted the CBS News morning programs, ''

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'' and its predecessor, ''

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'', for seventeen years. In July 2011, Smith left CBS NewsAriens, Chris (July 8, 2011)
"Harry Smith Leaving CBS News for NBC News"
''

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''. to become a correspondent for NBC News and the newsmagazine ''

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''. He has also served as an anchor for

, conducting daytime live coverage of breaking news and events since first appearing in November 2015.

Early life and education

Smith was born in

Lansing, Illinois Lansing is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Lansing is a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 29,076 at the 2020 census. Geography Lansing is located at (41.565785, -87.545791). It is south of the Chicago city limits a ...

. He received a

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degree in communications and theater from Central College, located in

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Career

Smith began his broadcasting career at

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, radio stations KHOW and KIMN and

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, radio station

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(1975 From 1981 to 1982, he worked for Denver's public television station, KRMA-TV. From 1982 to 1985, he served as a reporter and anchor for

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, the then-CBS affiliate in Denver (the station is now affiliated with ABC). In 1986, Smith joined CBS News as a reporter and was named a correspondent in 1987. For thirteen years, Smith was a contributor to ''The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather'', '' 48 Hours'', and CBS News documentaries. The majority of his time at CBS was spent anchoring the CBS morning show. From November 30, 1987, to June 14, 1996, he served as a co-anchor of ''

''. After leaving the show, Smith was featured on the CBS Evening news in a weekly report called "Travels with Harry," which looked at unique people and places around the country. Starting in 1999, he hosted the A&E Network television series ''

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'' and

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's ''

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''. On October 28, 2002, Smith returned to the CBS morning show, by that point renamed ''

''. He hosted the program for eight years before CBS announced that Smith and co-anchors

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and

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would leave the show at the end of 2010. His last day on the show was December 31, 2010. By that point, Smith had spent a total of seventeen years on a CBS morning show. Upon leaving the program, Smith became a Senior Correspondent for CBS News and substitute anchor for the ''CBS Evening News'', ''

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'', and '' CBS News Sunday Morning''. In addition to his television assignments, Smith delivered a daily ''Harry Smith Reporting'' editorial for the

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. On July 8, 2011, CBS News informed its employees that Smith would depart the network after twenty-five years. NBC News subsequently announced that Smith would join that network and contribute to the prime-time newsmagazine program ''

''. Since the canceling of ''Rock Center with Brian Williams'', Smith has continued to report regularly on various NBC News platforms and substitute anchor on ''

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''. He contributes a weekly story on Sunday mornings on the weekend edition of NBC's ''

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'' in a segment called "Sundays with Harry". In the fall of 2015, Smith began regularly filling in as co-host on the weekend edition of NBC's ''Today'' alongside his former colleague from ''

'',

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. Smith is part of a rotating group of co-hosts that have been filling the co-anchor chair since it was vacated by

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when he was named weekday anchor of ''NBC Nightly News''.

Personal life

Smith lives in New York City with his wife, sportscaster

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, and their two sons. He is a

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and regularly commutes on a folding bike to the NBC studios in New York City and he also rides a "racing" road bicycle.

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