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 Harry Porterfield
WLS-TV - NEWS ANCHOR/REPORTER

 
   
Harry Porterfield joined ABC 7 News in September of 1985 after 21 years at WBBM-TV, channel 2 in Chicago. 

Prior to that Porterfield a former army sergeant was a gospel and jazz disc jockey for radio station WKNX in Saginaw, Michigan where he wrote all of the commercial announcements. 
At ABC 7, WLS-TV, Porterfield is a featured news reporter appearing on various newscasts and from time to time in the role of a substitute anchor. One of his regular assignments is the continuing series of human-interest reports popularly known as "Someone You Should Know." Which airs on Tuesdays and Thursdays on the 5 p.m. newscast. Porterfield created the series in 1977 at WBBM-TV and has since then profiled some 2,000 subjects from individuals to organizations. 

During his tenure at WBBM-TV Porterfield anchored the hour long six o'clock news Monday through Friday and was a reporter /host of the Emmy award winning public affairs series "Channel Two the People"'. He was also one of the hosts on the top rated magazine program "Two On Two". 

Porterfield has received ten Emmy awards for his news reporting and for his features on "Channel Two the People" and for "Two On Two." He was honored with the Columbia Dupont Journalism Award for his "Someone You Should Know Series". In 1996 the late Cardinal Joseph Bernadin presented him with an archdiocesan plaque citing the someone program as an outstanding TV series. 

Other honors include the first Outstanding Journalist Award ever presented by the Chicago Association of Black Journalists, the Distinguished Journalism Award from the Coalition for United Community Action, the Black Book Award as an outstanding black professional in communications, the Richard J. Daley Police Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Award from the Gary, Indiana NAACP, the Kinney Circle Guest of Honor Award from the Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka, the Media Fairness Award from Operation Push, the Distinguished Service Award from the Black Data Processors, a Certificate of Merit from the National Catholic Association for Broadcasters and Allied Communications, and many other awards and citations. 

Recently he was inducted into the Chicago Television Academy's Silver Circle. Porterfield is also a winner of the 1999 Studs Terkel Award for journalism presented by the Community Media Workshop and is the recipient of an award for outstanding community service from the Calumet Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Porterfield has been designated an honorary state representative in the Indiana General Assembly. 

Porterfield is a board member of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, an honorary board member of the Merit Music Program, a member of Phi Mu Alpha Music Fraternity and a member of Chicago Federation of Musicians. A violinist, Porterfield is a member of the Annual Do It Yourself Messiah Orchestra and the Chicago Bar Association Orchestra. 

Porterfield holds a degree in chemistry from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan and a doctor of jurisprudence degree from DePaul University in Chicago.

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