Dick Johnson (reporter)

Dick Johnson was the morning news co-anchor for NBC owned television station WMAQ-TV in Chicago and is now a street reporter and a weekend anchor at WMAQ-TV. Before coming to WMAQ-TV in 2002, he was a longtime reporter/anchor at rival WLS-TV. Johnson has won numerous awards, including the DuPont-Columbia Award (the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize) and the Emmy Award.

Johnson is also the producer for the summer play productions put on by the Community House in Hinsdale, Illinois. In 2006, he produced Oliver!, and one year later, in the summer of 2007, he produced and performed as Franklin D. Roosevelt in Annie.