Pat Harvey Biography
Pat Harvey is an American radio journalist. She joined KCAL 9 in Los Angeles in 1989, and in 2010, she began co-anchoring for KCAL sister station KCBS news at 5, 6, and 11 p.m. She is the longest-running prime-time anchor at one Los Angeles station.
How old is Pat Harvey?-Age
Pat is 68 years old as of November 2023. She was born on 13 November 1955, in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America.
How tall is Pat Harvey? Height- Weight
Harvey stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches, and she weighs 68 kg.
Pat Harvey Education
Pat attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan and the University of Detroit Mercy.
Pat Harvey Family
She has not yet disclosed any information about her parents or whether she has siblings. Attempts to establish the identities of her family, her mother, and her father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether she has any siblings.
Pat Harvey Husband- Daughter
Harvey is happily married to her husband, Ken Lombard, and together they have a child, Michelle Byrd.
Pat Harvey Career
Pat has traveled extensively for KCAL News and its sister station CBS Los Angeles, covering subjects such as the Papal Conclave in Rome, the first all-race elections in South Africa, the AIDS epidemic in East Africa and Russia, and El Salvador’s civil conflict. Pat was the first journalist to interview Jeanette Harris, a discharged juror in the O.J. Simpson trial. The report was broadcast on television stations across the country and viewed abroad. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Pat worked at WGN Superstation in Chicago. Her investigative investigations on poor pap smear tests, which resulted in hundreds of women’s deaths, prompted laws regulating cytology labs in Illinois and the closure of one in Southern California.
She was also an initial CNN Headline News anchor, joining the start-up network in 1982 and then anchoring CNN’s morning news program until 1985, where she interviewed Ferdinand Marcos during the Philippines’ historic democratic elections. The Detroit native’s first news position was at Saginaw, Michigan’s WNEM-TV, an NBC affiliate. Pat was asked to carry the Olympic torch through downtown Los Angeles in 2002 as a result of her popularity and community work, and she was awarded two honorary doctorates in humanities. Prior to Harvey’s entrance in Los Angeles, the market had just two Black weeknight news anchors: Ken Jones in the early to mid-1970s and Felicia Jeter during 1980–1981. Harvey rose to the status of pioneer as a result of her exceptional efforts.
Pat co-founded the Good News Foundation with four other television anchorwomen in 2006. The organization established a computer lab for homeless children on Skid Row, a park and entertainment facility in South LA, and a library for homeless women at the Downtown Women’s facility, as well as an annual college grant for budding female journalists. Pat appeared as a guest co-host on CBS’s daytime talk show The Talk on February 21, 2017. This was her eleventh appearance.
Pat Harvey Awards
She was also awarded the Peter Lisagor award from the Society of Professional Journalists. 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. She has won 25 local Emmy awards, a national Emmy and received the Joseph M. Quinn Lifetime Achievement Award from the L.A. Press Club in 2004. Named “Best News Anchor” by the Associated Press. In 2008, Pat received the Genii award from the Los Angeles chapter of American Women in Radio and Television and has been recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Pat Harvey Net Worth
Pat has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.