Michael Harris (producer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American television producer, born 1964
Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1964
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, United States
Profession: television producer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Michael Harris (producer)
- Michael Harris is a Seattle-based television producer, photojournalist and filmmaker.
- He has been a regular contributing producer for networks such as ABC News, NBC News, VH1 and MTV.
- Harris has also produced original content for Yahoo!, including shooting, writing and editing search trends segments seen by an estimated 9.2 million people each week on ABC World News Now and an additional 173 non-ABC stations throughout North America.
- As a producer, photojournalist and wildlife specialist since 2002 working out of the ABC News Seattle Bureau he has covered a wide range of breaking stories, including wildfires, mudslides, tornadoes, earthquakes, train derailments and to date over two dozen mass shootings for World News Tonight and Good Morning America, television's most-watched weekday morning show.
- He also contributes regularly to ABC News programs such as 20/20 and Nightline.
- As a multi-disciplined digital journalist, Harris is a 12-time Emmy Award-winner, with over 46 Emmy nominations in more than 16 different categories, including as Producer, Writer, Editor, Photographer, Director of a Live Production, Composer and On-Camera Host/Moderator, along with numerous other prestigious industry awards.
- In 2018 he was the recipient of a News & Documentary Emmy Award as Editorial Producer for the ABC News 20/20 special documentary presentation, "Heartbreak & Heroes," on the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
- Harris was also honored with a 2018 Christopher Award as a producer, photojournalist and interviewer as part of the producing team of the ABC News 20/20 special, "Wonder Boy."Along with his broadcast journalism experience, Harris is also a well-known marine expert and conservationist appearing regularly on television, radio and newspapers, collaborating with a number of individuals and nonprofit organizations, including from 1997 and 2017 with Orca Conservancy, an all-volunteer Seattle-based organization that works to protect killer whales and their habitats.
- Between 2011 and 2016 Harris also consulted the Pacific Whale Watch Association as its Executive Director, serving in-between his ABC News and other television assignments as the Association's sole administrator, media/content strategist and spokesperson, representing as many as 38 companies in Washington state and British Columbia and directing an eco-tourism industry that conducts over 14,000 whale watch trips a year, taking out over 400,000 passengers annually and contributing more than $144 million USD/year in regional economic impact in 2014.
- According to the global media intelligence firm Meltwater Group, which has over 1,500 monitors in 55 offices around the world, Harris reached over 2.4 billion people between October 2015 and November 2016 alone, appearing in newspapers, television and radio reports in every developed country it monitors.
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