John Johnson Biography
John Johnson is a TV anchor, senior correspondent, documentary filmmaker, and artist. He worked as a reporter for New York City television news for many years.
John Johnson Age| Birthday
He was born on 20 June 1938, in New York, New York, United States of America. John is 85 years old as of June 2023.
John Johnson Education
Johnson studied art at City College of New York and plans to become an art professor. He then became an associate professor of fine arts at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
John Johnson Wife| Spouse
He was married to E. Jean Carroll and later married Ann Yih Johnson, after divorcing his first wife.
John Johnson Net Worth
John has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.
John Johnson Career
Johnson became the first African American documentary producer, director, and writer for a broadcast network when he joined ABC News in 1968. For his documentaries Welfare Game and Strangers in Their Own Land: The Puerto Ricans, he was honored. Among the first black filmmakers to become members of the prestigious Directors Guild of America was him. Later, Johnson worked as a network journalist, reporting on stories like the 33 inmates and ten officers who were killed during the Attica Prison uprising. Johnson started his lengthy career at WABC in 1972. Johnson was a driving force behind WABC’s Eyewitness News format, which made its New York debut in 1968.
In the late 1980s, following Roger Grimsby’s firing, he worked as a rotating anchor of the 6 p.m. newscast alongside Kaity Tong and Bill Beutel. Johnson, who had previously anchored the station’s weekend newscasts and worked as a reporter, later returned to reporting as a senior correspondent for his own newscast. During his tenure as senior journalist, Johnson covered Nelson Mandela’s release from a South African prison and his presidential election. He covered the first Gulf War, the Bosnian War, and was one of the first reporters to arrive alongside American troops during the Unified Task Force incursion in Somalia. In 1994-95, Johnson’s reporting on the O. J. Simpson murder case was one of his final jobs at WABC.
Johnson left WABC in March 1995, while the trial was still pending, to take a co-anchor role on WCBS’s 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts in June of the same year. Johnson worked at the station until October 1996, when he and many other well-known figures were fired. After the 6 p.m. news, Johnson and co-anchor Michele Marsh were unceremoniously fired, with their dismissals occurring in the four and a half hours that followed while they previewed the next 11 p.m. program. After a year, Johnson departed WNBC to take care of his father, who was dying of cancer, and he has never gone back to television. As a reporter, producer, writer, director, and recipient of numerous other honors throughout the course of his thirty-year career in television news, Johnson earned nine Emmys.
Johnson worked as an assistant professor of fine arts and chairman of the arts department at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania before going into radio. He also gave guest lectures at various universities. Following his retirement from radio, Johnson pursued his painting career. Johnson claims that his paintings have been shown at the Walter Wickiser Gallery in Manhattan as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Johnson has portrayed himself in motion pictures including 54 and CopLand. Additionally, he starred in the 2021 Academy Award-nominated documentary Attica and the critically acclaimed documentary Eyes on the Prize.