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Bruce Morton

Bruce Morton is one of CNN's leading national correspondents. In addition to his extensive political reporting for CNN’s The Situation Room, Morton delivers historical perspective pieces for various shows throughout the network.

Morton, who worked at CBS News for almost 30 years, joined CNN's Washington, D.C., bureau in October 1993. Morton has covered the Vietnam War, Watergate, three decades of national election campaigns and the U.S. space program from the Gemini to Apollo missions. He holds six News and Documentary Emmy awards, a George Foster Peabody award and was a contributor to a George Polk Award.

Morton joined CBS in 1964 as a Washington bureau reporter. He was named Washington correspondent for the CBS Morning News in 1974 and Washington anchor in 1975 and from 1990-1993, he was a commentator for CBS Weekend News.

He won Emmy awards for "Reports for the Lt. Calley Trial" (1971); "Watergate: The White House Transcripts" (1974); "Coverage of American Unemployment" (1982); "The Mien People" (1983); and "TV Campaigning" (1984). Morton was in Beijing in the spring of 1989 and contributed to CBS's award-winning coverage of the student uprising in Tiananmen Square. Morton also won a Peabody Award as a co-anchor of the CBS Morning News from 1975-1976.

Before joining CBS, Morton worked for ABC News in London. He graduated from Harvard College in 1952.

 

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