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Art Harris

Art Harris is an Emmy Award-winning national investigative correspondent for CNN's National bureau in Atlanta. Named to this position in January 2001, he previously was a correspondent for the newsmagazine show CNN&TIME. Harris joined the network in April 1990 and is based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta.

In 2003, Harris reported live from the Clara Harris murder trial in Texas as well as from Fort Knox, Ky., where Army soldiers conducted tank training in preparation for possible conflict in Iraq. Later in the year, Harris traveled to the Persian Gulf as one of CNN's 18 embedded journalists. He reported from the frontlines with the 3rd Battalion of the U.S. Marines.

In the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado, Harris did the first interviews with parents and members of the "Trenchcoat Mafia," as well as with Columbine student Brooks Brown and his mother. Brown was spared by gunman Eric Harris. The Columbine interviews were nominated for both Emmy and Peabody awards. In her first television interview, Linda Tripp's friend and literary agent, Luciane Goldberg, told Harris why she advised Tripp to secretly tape Monica Lewinsky, which led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Goldberg played the tapes for Harris.

Harris also broke stories for CNN on the bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta that helped the network win a 1997 Emmy Award for Breaking News. With the bombing coming shortly after his one-hour special on terrorism and Olympic security, Guarding the Games, a television critic called his reporting "sadly prophetic." For the special, Harris filed reports from Germany, Israel and the Gaza Strip, interviewing captured bombers, experts in counter-terrorism and orphans of the terrorists attack during the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

During the first 18 months of the O.J. Simpson case, Harris broke dozens of exclusive stories for CNN, from key defense strategies to prosecution evidence that allegedly linked Simpson to the homicides. CNN was the first network to announce that the jury had reached a verdict. Analyzing media coverage in the Simpson case, the Los Angeles Times wrote that reporting colleagues "applauded Art Harris of CNN for getting a number of stories before anyone else."

Harris was also part of CNN's Emmy Award-winning coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. He won an American Women in Radio & Television and a WorldFest Gold Award in 1996 for his story about a Georgia prosecutor nicknamed "Amazing Grace," who coped with her fiance's murder by

representing crime victims in court. Harris won a 1999 Golden Triangle Award for his profile about a bald beauty queen and alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder that causes baldness. Harris is among 4 million Americans who have alopecia areata.

Harris spent 13 years as a reporter and Atlanta bureau chief for The Washington Post, covering the South. He wrote stories ranging from the Atlanta child murders and subsequent trial of Wayne Williams in 1982 to the Oliver North scandal in 1987, as well as the rise and fall of TV evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart. While at The Washington Post, Harris was nominated for the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing.

Among his nine National Headliner Awards is one for investigative reporting for CNN. That story, about a jail suicide in Alabama, sparked a Justice Department investigation. Harris also has written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Reader's Digest, People, Penthouse, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Daily News, the San Francisco Examiner and the Atlanta Constitution. Author Dominick Dunne featured Harris' Simpson scoops in his pieces for Vanity Fair, as well as in his novel A City Not My Own. Author William Diehl used Harris as a model for reporters in two of his novels, even naming them Art Harris.

Harris was executive producer for In The Name of Love - a Texas Tragedy, a 1995 Fox television movie of the week inspired by an original Harris story. Another Harris story inspired the NBC Movie of the Week Woman with a Past, one of the network's top 10 movies of 1992.

Harris earned a bachelor's degree in political science and French literature from Duke University. He also attended the Harvard Business School.

 

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