When was John Johnson born and what was his profession?
John Johnson is an American television news reporter. He had been a fixture in New York City television news for many years. He is best known for his long run at WABC, where he served as a rotating anchor of the 6 p.m. newscast in the aftermath of Roger Grimsby’s firing (he had been working on Eyewitness News since the 1970s). In the 1990s he switched to reporting, and was one of WABC’s original reporters at the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1994. During that time, Johnson left WABC for WCBS, and became co-anchor of the station’s 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. He was fired by WCBS in the mid-1990s in a mass dismissal where many of the station’s news personalities found themselves looking for work. When WNBC launched a noon newscast, Johnson moved over to that station and became the newscast’s anchor. However, Johnson left the station for family reasons after one year into his run at WNBC and never returned to TV. Before WABC, Johnson worked at ABC News as a documentary producer, director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Johnson John H. Johnson John Harold Johnson (19 January 1918 – 8 August 2005) was an American businessman and publisher. He was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company, and in 1982, the first African-American to appear on the Forbes 400. . . . —— http://www.visionaryproject.org/johnsonjohn/ John H. Johnson January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005 Born in Arkansas City, Arkansas Publisher, Corporate Executive; Founder of Ebony & Jet Magazines BIOGRAPHY John H. Johnson was the founder of a major international media and cosmetics empire that includes EBONY and JET magazines, Fashion Fair Cosmetics and EBONY Fashion Fair. Founded in 1942, Johnson Publishing is the number one African American publishing company in the world. Johnson was one of America’s most successful and wealthiest entrepreneurs. Ebony,
