Rob Morrison <!--(born May 17, 1968)--> is an American former television journalist and news anchor.
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Early life and education
Morrison grew up in Holden, Massachusetts, with his parents, Robert and Donna, and his sister, Traci, who is six years his junior. He attended Saint John's High School, a private, Catholic Church-affiliated boys' high school located in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
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Career
Morrison began his broadcasting career as a combat correspondent while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. As a foreign correspondent, he reported from Iraq and Qatar during the Second Gulf War; Afghanistan, where he embedded with the Marines during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001; and Haiti.
In 1999, Morrison began a nine-year period at WNBC, the New York City, flagship station of the NBC television network.
On February 20, 2013, Morrison resigned from his $300,000-a-year position at WCBS-TV.
Personal life
His wife, Ashley Morrison (née Risk), a business anchor for CBS MoneyWatch, was an anchor and reporter with Bloomberg Television from 2007 to 2009. the couple and their son, Jack, moved from Manhattan and the strangulation charge was dropped in April 2014.
Harassment call charges
Morrison was arrested again on Monday, June 17, 2014, after calling his wife Ashley Morrison more than 100 times over several days the previous month. He was charged with criminal violation of a protection order and second-degree harassment after turning himself in on a warrant about 6PM. He later pleaded guilty to harassment charges against his wife Ashley in October 2014 and he was sentenced to six months probation.