Johnny Harris (journalist)

Johnny Harris (born May 1988) is an American filmmaker, journalist and YouTuber, currently based in Washington, D.C.[2] Harris produced and hosted the Borders series for Vox.[3][4][5][6][7][8] Harris launched the company Bright Trip in 2019, which offers video-based travel courses.[9]

Johnny Harris
Personal information
Born (1988-05-28) May 28, 1988
Utah
NationalityAmerican
EducationBrigham Young University American University
Occupation
  • Filmmaker
  • journalist
  • YouTuber
Spouse(s)Isabel Harris
Relatives2 sons
Websitewww.johnnyharris.ch
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2011-present
GenreInternational Affairs, History, and Geography
Subscribers2.61 million[1]
(2022)
Total views170 million[1]
(2022)
100,000 subscribers 2019
1,000,000 subscribers 2021
Updated: 07 February 2022

Early life and education

Harris was raised in a Mormon family, living in a small town in Oregon.[‡ 1] He graduated from Ashland High School, in Ashland, Oregon.[‡ 2] He served a two-year mission for the LDS Church in Tijuana, Mexico.[‡ 3]

He holds a BA in international relations from Brigham Young University and an MA in international peace and conflict resolution from American University.[2]

Career

Vox Borders

Borders is a documentary short film series that profiled sociopolitical issues in various borders around the world. It was twice nominated for an Emmy Award.[10] It ran from 2017 to 2020.

YouTube

Harris's YouTube channel was set up in June 2011. Since the cancellation of Borders, Harris has continued to produce videos on international affairs, history and geography with creative visual graphics, which he has published on his own channel.[‡ 4] He also produced videos with the New York Times.[11][12]

As of December 31, 2021, Harris has 2 million YouTube subscribers.[‡ 5] Some of his notable videos on geopolitics include wars, relations and colonizing by the United States of America, of the Middle East and islands in the Pacific.

Freelance

On November 9, 2021, Harris was credited as video producer on an opinion piece published to The New York Times.[13]

Borders series

Harris was the host of the documentary series Borders for Vox, which aired between 2017 and 2019. The series investigated international relations and their impact on people. Only 4 seasons were aired, as season 5 was canceled in 2020.[‡ 6]

Season Episodes Originally Aired Location(s) featured
First aired Last aired Producer
1 6 May 22, 2017 October 14, 2017 Vox Media Inc. Various
2 5 July 11, 2018 August 15, 2018 Hong Kong
3 5 November 22, 2018 December 18, 2018 Colombia
4 5 June 26, 2019 July 24, 2019 India
5 - Release cancelled United States

Personal life

Harris and his wife, Izzy, have two sons, Oliver and Henry. Harris grew up as a Mormon, but later left the LDS Church.[‡ 7]

References
  1. "About Johnny Harris". YouTube.
  2. "Johnny Harris". Vox. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  3. Schmidt, Christine (27 August 2018). "Explanatory video + engagement = How Vox's Borders series is humanizing the map and building local source networks". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  4. Scott, Caroline (30 August 2017). "Why Vox has been crowdsourcing for its latest international documentary series". journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  5. Scott, Caroline (23 August 2018). "How Vox expanded its network by crowdsourcing for its latest documentary series". journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  6. Llewellyn, Tom (15 September 2020). "Vox Borders cancelled: Why has the popular documentary series been axed?". Reality Titbit. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  7. Schochet, Max (11 March 2020). "Behind the scenes of the Vox web series "Borders"". Storybench. Northeastern University School of Journalism. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  8. "Alumnus Spotlight: Johnny Harris". BYU Political Science Blog. Brigham Young University. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  9. "Bright Trip Inc. Launches Travel Industry's First Video-Based Travel Courses". PRWeb. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  10. "Vox Earns 3 News and Documentary Emmy Award Nominations". Vox Media. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  11. I Made a Video with The New York Times, retrieved 2021-05-21
  12. How America Bungled the Plague | NYT Opinion, retrieved 2021-05-21
  13. Harris, Johnny; Appelbaum, Binyamin (2021-11-09). "Opinion | Blue States, You're the Problem". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-11-10.

Primary sources

In the text these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):

  1. Why New York City is so Huge, retrieved 2021-04-28
  2. Am I Happy?: Q&A, retrieved 2021-06-12
  3. Why I Left The Mormon Church. YouTube. June 11, 2021.
  4. "Johnny Harris - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  5. "Johnny Harris YouTube Page". YouTube. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  6. Harris, Johnny (September 14, 2020). "VOX BORDERS IS CANCELED". YouTube.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Who Are We?!. YouTube. Feb 4, 2018.


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