Dick Johnson
Reporter, Anchor
Updated 11:35 PM CST, Tue, Jul 28, 2009
Dick joined NBC5 in the fall of 2002 after 20 award winning years at ABC 7 Chicago. He is currently a weekday reporter and backup weeknight anchor. For the 5½ years prior to that assignment, he was part of the NBC5 morning team, launching Chicago's first streetside studio as co-anchor of NBC5 News Today.
In 2007, Dick became a 25-year veteran of Chicago TV news!
Prior to moving to Chicago in 1982, Dick co-anchored the 5 p.m. news at KDFW-TV in Dallas where he was also a political reporter. He began his career in Indianapolis as a reporter at WTHR-TV.
As an Emmy and DuPont-Columbia award winning broadcast journalist, Johnson's career of more than 30 years includes covering the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan from Air Force Two with then-Vice-President George H.W. Bush, the return of the Iranian hostages at West Point, Ryan White's courageous struggle with AIDS, the famine in Ethiopia, the battle to build Comiskey Park and the United Center, the struggle over Chicago school reform, the "Great Loop Flood," the rape trial of boxer Mike Tyson, the investigation of O.J. Simpson, the murder spree of Andrew Cunannan and election campaigns of every kind, from president to mayor.
In 2004, Dick enjoyed making his silver screen debut with a cameo in the hit movie "Barbershop 2." He will also appear as himself in the film "Chicago Overcoat," a much-anticipated mob movie shot entirely in Chicago, coming out in summer 2009.
Dick graduated with a degree in political science from DePauw University in Indiana, where he is on the Advisory Board of the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media.
He and his wife and three children reside in the western suburbs.
Drop Dick a line: Dick.Johnson@nbc.com
First Published: Oct 1, 2008 1:52 PM CST
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