Dick Johnson (reporter)
Richard S. Johnson was the morning news co-anchor and a street reporter for NBC-owned television station WMAQ-TV in Chicago. Before coming to WMAQ-TV in 2002, he was a longtime reporter/anchor at rival WLS-TV.
Johnson won numerous awards, including the DuPont-Columbia Award and the Emmy Award.
Johnson was 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.
He died on June 9, 2020, following days of respiratory complications. He was being treated at a northern Michigan hospital at the time of his death.
