Laura Harris

Moderator & Anchor for NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Laura Harris is a three-time regional Emmy Award and Associated Press award-winning journalist who joined the NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth team in September 2018. Some highlights of Laura’s career at NBC 5 include covering the Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021. She also helped start the childhood literacy initiative at NBC 5 Reading With You. It’s an innovative program encouraging elementary-aged children to read at least one book a week throughout the summer to help combat summer learning loss, often referred to as the "summer slide". She came to Dallas-Fort Worth from the ABC affiliate in Tampa, Florida. At ABC Action News Laura covered President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba in 2016 and covered the Tampa Bay Rays while they played the Cuban National Team in Havana. She also covered Pope Francis’ historic visit to Cuba in 2015. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and a graduate of Georgia Southern University, Summa cum Laude and a Division I soccer player for four years.