Tony Harris

Tony Harris is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and filmmaker. He is currently the host of the HISTORY Channel’s The Proof is Out There, a non-fiction series that takes an in-depth look at some of the most incredible and thought-provoking videos of unexplained phenomena and mysterious must-see moments of all time. For six years, Harris anchored CNN Newsroom w/Tony Harris, where he earned George Foster Peabody Awards for coverage of the British petroleum oil spill and Hurricane Katrina. He also earned an Alfred I. duPont Award for coverage of the Southeast Asia tsunami. Tony is president of Merge Media Group LLC, which looks to produce and co-produce original factual and fictional content across all platforms. In a diverse broadcast career, Tony has served as an international news anchor for Al Jazeera English in Doha, Qatar during the 2011 Arab Spring and as a New York-based correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. His first podcast, Monster: DC Sniper for iHeart Media and Tenderfoot TV is still a top-rated, true crime podcast, with more than 12 million downloads after reaching number three in all of podcasting early in 2020.