With over 30 years as a writer-producer-investigative journalist in print, online and television, Art Harris is a 2X National Emmy winner who draws on his experience covering the biggest trials and stories of our time to develop high impact content for a variety of clients in news, entertainment and the law.A Duke graduate and former U.S. Navy officer, he spent 13 years reporting for The Washington Post, first in D.C., under legendary editor Bob Woodward, then as its Atlanta bureau chief, covered the city's missing and murdered children, and its first convicted black serial killer, Wayne Williams... civil rights heroes like Rep. John Lewis, the election of the city's first black mayor...He went on to expose TV preachers, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, who defrauded thousands of elderly devotees, and found the prostitute who said televangelist Jimmy Swaggart paid her... to minister to him.Then, CNN recruited Art as its investigative correspondent, covering crime, war and terror; two National Emmy Awards followed for covering bombings in Oklahoma City and Atlanta’s deadly Olympic Park bombing. He broke dozens of exclusives covering the double murder trial of O.J. Simpson, the death of Princess Diana in Paris, then wound up as an embedded CNN reporter with the U.S. 2ND Marines in Iraq.Later as an Investigative producer for ET and The Insider, he broke exclusives on Michael Jackson, covered two Presidential campaigns and scored a Laura Bush White House tour, viewed by 30 million people, while contributing to CBS News and 48 Hours. In 2011, Art started his production company, Busystreet Productions; clients included CBS Swift Justice, where he appeared on air as "Special Investigator' for Judge show host Nancy Grace.Drawing on decades covering crime and injustice, and his passion to help underdogs, he created a unique brand of 20-20 style doc-exposes to help victims and their legal teams win major compensatory justice—at mediation--without ever going to trial.His award-winning team produces network quality docs he writes, and hosts like those that won multiple awards at CNN, humanizing victims of catastrophic injury and wrongful death, violent crime, criminal wrong-doing and negligence.Not one case he has taken on has gone to trial.URL: www.artharrisinvestigates.com
Art Harris Investigates
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Owner, CeoArt Harris Investigates Jan 2004 - PresentGreater Atlanta AreaMedia/programing consulting arm of Busystreet Productions, LLC, to provide media strategy, true crime projects, and high impact documentary exposes for legal clients that achieve 7-8 figure settlements for personal injury victims (www.artharrisinvestigates.com); creative storytelling solutions that can be ratings boosters and make a difference in people's lives. Writing, producing, hosting, reporting, supervising, original programming and Investigative journalism projects. As executive producer, writer and on air talent, Art can put together the ideal team for any project, drawing on a talent pool of veterans and brilliant former colleagues at CNN and the networks-- photographers, producers, directors, animators, you name it. The goal--to create powerful, hands-on storytelling that makes headlines, moves viewers and makes a difference.
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Owner-Busystreet Productions, Llc Feb 2004 - PresentAtlanta, Ga.Television prodco Art started in 2004 that specializes in "out-of-the-box" storytelling to inform, entertain, boost ratings, change hearts, minds and lives for the better. With over 25 years experience, the ex-CNN investigative journalist, a two-time Emmy Award winner, creates. writes, produces, hosts and packages high impact news and entertainment projects -- with exclusive content and storytelling strategies that deliver.Clients have included CNN, HLN, CBS-Paramount shows like ET, The Insider, Swift Justice with Nancy Grace, CBS News (The Morning Show, 48 Hours), CNN, HLN (Nancy Grace), FOX News, Biography, NBC-Comcast (E! News, E! Hollywood Story), Discovery ID, Original Productions. Pre-hiatus, his news blog, The Bald Truth, drew more than 2 million visitors with exclusives and original video. Special skills/results: --documentary exposes on underdog victims help win mediated settlements of more than $400 million; --Investigative writing; instructor/volunteer, Oglethorpe University.--Humanizing underdogs: lawyers for a quadriplegic teen paralyzed in a school van rollover use his doc-expose at mediation to win $10 million in compensatory justice, and tightened safety regs in NYC schools. --Two Emmy Awards with CNN, for coverage of terrorism in the Oklahoma City Bombing and Atlanta's Olympic Park Bombing, where he scored the first TV interview with security guard Richard Jewell;- As an embedded CNN reporter, Art's expose of "friendly fire" behind 17 dead U.S. Marines in Nasyria leads Pentagon to reopen investigation -- after Art finds witnesses to an Air Force A 10 that fired on the Americans;--His blockbuster Michael Jackson trial police tapes help launch ET spinoff, The Insider; exclusive Laura Bush White House tour scores 30 million viewers for ET pre-2004 election;--Exclusive crime stories used by HLN and Nancy Grace Show for buzz and ratings.-- public speaking, voice overs, narrative marketing.
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Investigative Reporter-Wgcl/Cbs46 Aug 2015 - Aug 2016Greater Atlanta AreaRecruited by Atlanta CBS affiliate to help start new Investigative team. High impact exclusives like "Fugitive Mom," nominated for an Emmy, that featured a sit-down with a mother on the run with her son, in fear for their lives while eluding a violent, ex-boyfriend, U.S. Marshals and a system that often fails victims--and begs the question: "When should a woman leave?" After Chelsea Cullen surrenders, CBS 46 scores the only interview when she bonds out of jail-- exclusives picked up by Dr. Drew for HLN, syndicated show, Crimewatch Daily, and others. Other high profile scoops: --Sex Slaves in the Suburbs--Art goes undercover with a special victims unit that hunts under-aged victims of Atlanta's $290 million sex industry, and pimps who enslave and profit; --first interview with the so called Mansion Madam who opens her "little black book;" after a decade on probation and off the grid;--parent outrage over a Catholic school that fails to call police after firing a young priest for "inappropriate behavior" with a female student, all caught on tape.--CBS46 military and security analyst for breaking stories like the Brussels and Paris Bombings, San Bernardino and more, -
Investigative Consultant, Swift Justice, Cbs TelevisionCbs Television Studios May 2010 - Apr 2012Atlanta, Ga.Developed cases, investigated litigants with a past and appeared on air as Swift Justice "Special Investigator" to expose contradictions and set the record straight. Conceptualized polygraphs and voice stress analysis used in real time to test litigants' veracity, create drama and hold viewers. Also cast and coached forensic experts, including polygraph operators, for Nancy Grace's former daytime hit CBS judge show, a first season Emmy nominee. Guest expert for Judge Nancy Glass as well. -
Investigative Producer, Special Correspondent, Et-The InsiderEntertainment Tonight Mar 2004 - Mar 2009New York City And Los AngelesInitially recruited in 2004 as investigative producer to help launch ET spinoff, The Insider, Art’s Michael Jackson exclusives made headlines coast to coast, including the police interview tape of the fearful mother of Jackson's accuser. On the tape, she claimed their lives were in danger, and that his handlers had plotted to move them to South America, away from the press and the police. Featured on GMA, CBS News, FOX, the AP and elsewhere, that “scoop” became a four part series that helped score ratings for ET’s new hit sister show as it named Art its New York Bureau Chief, sharing him with The Early Show and 48 Hours as a CBS news consultant. Meanwhile, he helped pioneer ET’s coverage of Presidential candidates and their families, capturing human moments for a largely female demo that changed the game of campaign coverage. Politics as entertainment. For the first time, political strategists began cranking ET and The Insider into the new media equation, giving millions of mostly female TV viewers (and voters) access to candidates’ personal lives and private moments. Exclusives also included a rare White House Tour with First Lady Laura Bush, and Barney, weeks before the 2004 election. Art also covered the Presidential debates, appeared on air and contributed exclusives to etonline, from the death of James Brown, to sit-downs with widow Tommie Rae Brown, to Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith. In campaign 2008, he shot exclusive footage of Sen. Barack Obama, and scored interviews for the shows with Jill Biden; Sen. John and Cindy McCain, Megan McCain, traveled to Alaska twice with Sarah Palin and scored the first interview with the Alaska governor after her defeat. Exclusives from Art's popular crime, justice and entertainment newsblog, The Bald Truth, aka, artharris.com, have been featured on ET, The Insider, CNN, HLN, Associated Press, FOX and counted more than 2 million visits/ 10 mill page views after launch in 2005. -
Embedded Reporter, Investigative CorrespondentCnn 1990 - 2004Embedded in Iraq as CNN War correspondent with 2nd Marines, Battle of Nasyria; Investigative correspondent for National Staff, Special Assignment, CNN and TIME, lead investigative reporter on the OJ Simpson case, traveled to Paris and London for the death of Princess Diana, on CNN team that won Emmys for covering the Oklahoma City bombings, and Atlanta's Olympic Park Bombing; helped develop highly rated show, Crime Stories, that TBS wanted to develop and syndicate. After 9-11, tracked hijackers who used Atlanta to hide out before sowing terror in the skies. From Nasyria to Neverland, from Iraq to the trial of Michael Jackson. After breaking perhaps the bloodiest "friendly fire" story of the war--an errant Air Force A-10 strafing in Nasirya that killed 17 U.S. Marines--the Pentagon re-opened its investigation and absolved the scapegoated Marine unit.In the MJ case, in an exclusive CNN interview with Art, Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon apologized for calling Jackson "whacko Jacko.""One of the best in the business." -- talk show host Larry King"..a great reporter."-- O.J. Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran"An evil, chrome dome scorpion."--late Hunter S. Thompson, after Art's CNN exclusive with the prostitute behind Rev. Jimmy Swaggart's fall from grace. -
Atlanta Bureau Chief; Special CorrespondentThe Washington Post 1977 - 1993Reporter, The Metro section, under editor Bob Woodward; reopened Atlanta Bureau to cover the "New" South for The Washington Post: breaking news, investigative projects: voting rights drives in Ala and Miss... police brutality in New Orleans...the trial of serial killer Wayne Williams; Atlanta's Missing and Murdered Children. Southern politics from Herman Talmadge to Andy Young and the rise of elephants in the cotton patch... drugs and crime, from the cocaine cowboys in Miami, to Mariel boatlift...exposed TV preacher scandals from Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker to Rev. Jimmy Swaggart with colleague Mike Isikoff, Wrote 5,000 word true crime features for The Style section. Award winning feature writer, nominated for Pulitzer Prize by Style section editors.
Art Harris Education Details
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Defense Information School (Dinfos)Media, Military Law, Soviet, Middle East History, Crisis Communications,
Frequently Asked Questions about Art Harris
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Art Harris works for Art Harris Investigates
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Art Harris's current role is Writer-TV Producer- Investigative Storyteller-Journalist-Legal Media Consultant.
What schools did Art Harris attend?
Art Harris attended Duke University, Harvard Business School, Defense Information School (Dinfos).
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