Pat Harvey
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KCAL News at 9 PM
Pat Harvey | |
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| Born | November 13, 1955 |
| Occupations | News anchor, journalist |
| Employers | |
| Known for | KCAL News on CBS Los Angeles at 5, 6 & 11 PM KCAL News at 9 PM |
| Awards | LA Area Governor's Award, ATAS, Emmy L.A. Press Club, RTNA Lifetime Achievement Award, AWRT Genii Award, NABJ Hall of Fame |
Pat Harvey (born November 13, 1955) is an American broadcast journalist. She joined KCAL 9 in Los Angeles in 1989,[1] and in 2010 began co-anchoring for KCAL sister station KCBS news at 5, 6 & 11 PM. She is the longest-running anchor in prime time at one station in Los Angeles. For her 20th anniversary, the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared October 30, 2009, Pat Harvey Day. In June 2015 Harvey received the LA Area Emmy's Governor's Award. In 2012, Harvey was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Harvey attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan and the University of Detroit Mercy.
Early career
She also is an original CNN Headline News anchor, joining the start-up network in 1982. She later anchored CNN's morning news program until 1985, interviewing Ferdinand Marcos following the historic democratic elections in the Philippines.
The Detroit native's first news job was in Saginaw, Michigan at then-NBC affiliate, WNEM-TV.
Harvey worked in Chicago at WGN Superstation before coming to Los Angeles. Her investigative reports on faulty pap smear tests, which led to thousands of deaths among women, resulted in legislation regulating cytology labs in Illinois and the closure of one in Southern California. She was also awarded the Peter Lisagor award from the Chicago Headline Club. While working for WGN, she also broke a national story from the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta in 1988, revealing a change in leadership in the Democratic National Committee.