Len Cannon is a reporter/ News presenter for KHOU TV. He is an award winning journalist having won Emmy Award in local news. And, the National Association of Black Journalists First Place Award and the prestigious Columbia University Dupont, "Silver Baton" award for his reporting as a correspondent for Dateline NBC. Len Cannon is the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. News Anchors at KHOU 11 News. Len Cannon came to KHOU in 2006. ^[1]

Len Cannon started his career at Cleveland on the radio and later moved on to work TV news jobs in Toledo 5, New Orleans, Seattle, and New York.^[4]

Len spent seven years as a correspondent for Dateline NBC.

He has also won various community awards, including one from the Houston Fire Department.

During the fire outbreak, Len was there “Guys we are going to have to evacuate.”

It was those words that became a defining moment for KHOU 11 News.

Len was in the midst of anchoring round the clock coverage of Hurricane Harvey in August of 2017 when the station began taking on water. “We were forced off the air for several hours until we moved to another studio,” Lens said.

Len is part of the NBCAlumni group and also an associate of Escape Family Resource Center- LearntoParent.org.

Len Cannon is a graduate of Ashland University in his home state of Ohio, where he majored in radio and TV. "It was a small school that was nourishing and encouraging." He said. He currently resides in Houston, Texas together with his wife and daughter.

He got married to his lovely wife Bernadette Verzosa in 1997.

Verzosa is the former news and documentary producer in New York City and she is also the founder of parentspost.com. Verzosa and Cannon met in New Orleans in the early 1990s. They later reconnected at the Atlanta Olympics. At that time, she was working at a local TV news station and he was covering the Olympic Games for NBC.^[2] He also has an 11-year old daughter.

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