Johnson Tagged as ABC Correspondent

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Whit Johnson has been named an ABC News correspondent, based in New York, according to ABC News President James Goldston in an e-mail to staffers Monday (March 12).

Johnson comes from NBC-owned KNBC Los Angeles, where he had been a weekday morning anchor on Today in LA, as well as a reporter.

Johnson was part of the KNBC morning team that won last year's Golden Mike award for Best Daytime News Broadcast.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.