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Roger Harvey
Profile : Roger Harvey is a strategic communications specialist for the Education Law Group and a vice president with Bose Public Affairs Group LLC. He is an Emmy award-winning journalist whose news reports have been featured on MSNBC, CBS, CNN and Court TV as well as network affiliates across the country.
His career as a journalist has taken him around the world, and his investigative, political and general assignment reports have been honored dozens of times. Most recently, he received an Edward R. Murrow regional award for his reporting in Afghanistan. He was one of the first journalists to report live using a satellite videophone from Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he covered Indiana soldiers serving in Operation Enduring Freedom. Those reports also won a regional Emmy. Among his most memorable assignments, he covered Hurricane Katrina as the storm hit Mississippi, reporting on Indiana Task Force One and the mission to rescue victims in Gulfport and Biloxi. He also reported from New York City within hours of the Sept. 11 attacks and was anchor at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and spent more than 18 years working at network affiliates in Indianapolis, Richmond, Va. and Florence/Myrtle Beach, S.C. He serves on the board of the Culpepper Journalism Foundation, which funds high school scholarships in south Florida. Harvey is an announcer for the American Tennis Professional Tour RCA Championships tournament and frequently serves as an emcee for numerous charity galas and golf events.
Education
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (B.A., 1988)
Honors / Awards
He has received awards from the Scripps Howard Foundation; the Radio-Television News Directors Association; the Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio, Emmy chapters; the Society of Professional Journalists; and The Associated Press. Among his statewide honors, he was named The Associated Press Reporter of the Year. The Indiana Broadcasters Association selected his investigative work as "Story of the Year." He also won a CASPER Award for community service in investigative reporting.
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