Conor Knighton


Conor Knighton is an American journalist, actor, host, and author. He is currently a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning.

Early years

Knighton grew up in Charleston, West Virginia, and attended George Washington High School. He is a graduate of Yale University.

Career

Knighton was the first person to appear on Current TV when the network launched in 2005.
He was the host and producer of Google Current, a top of the hour news update based on Google's top searches. Knighton went on to serve as the host and executive producer of InfoMania, Current's first half-hour show. InfoMania was created by Madeline Smithberg, co-creator of The Daily Show. Knighton left the network at the end of 2010.
Knighton was one of the original co-hosts of The List, a national news magazine produced by the EW Scripps Company.
Knighton hosted AMC's The Movie List, a weekly countdown of popular movie trivia. He was also the host of Biography Channel's My Viral Video and has appeared as a commentator on CNN, MTV, E!, and Oxygen. He was regular panelist on E!'s Chelsea Lately.
Knighton is currently a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning.
In 2016, Knighton launched "On The Trail," a series of stories on the US national parks that aired on CBS Sunday Morning. Over the course of a single year, he visited every national park in the country. Knighton filed reports on certain parks along his journey for the broadcast. It was to honor the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.
In 2018, Knighton kicked off "Island Hopping" series, reporting on islands across the world for CBS Sunday Morning. He has traveled from the Galapagos to St. Helena to Denmark's Bornholm Island for the show.
On April 7, 2020, Knighton released a book about his year visiting the parks entitled Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park. The book was published by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Knighton has also served as a guest host of radio program Mountain Stage and was the voice of Davis Qar in the video game Mass Effect Andromeda. He appeared as an actor in such shows as the Gilmore Girls.

Awards and nominations

As a correspondent for KCET's SoCal Connected, Knighton was nominated for two Los Angeles Area Emmys and won a 2015 Los Angeles Press Club Award.
He has won three Daytime Emmys as part of the Sunday Morning Team.