Conor Knighton is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, America's #1 Sunday news morning program.

His debut nonfiction book, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park (Crown/Penguin Random House), was recently certified as New York Times bestseller. A behind-the-scenery account of the year Knighton spent visiting America’s national parks, the book features fascinating tidbits about our parks’ past and reflections on their fragile future. It is available for purchase here.

Knighton is the creator and producer of “On the Trail,” a series of CBS Sunday Morning stories on the national parks. He is also the creator of “Island Hopping,” an on-going series of Sunday Morning segments set on islands all across the world, from St. Pierre to the Seychelles. His reports—seen by more than six million viewers a week—have covered everything from the Scandinavian obsession with salty licorice to what it’s like to wake up on Wake Island, one of America’s most remote military bases.

Conor has won five Emmys as part of the Sunday Morning team and has won a Los Angeles Area Emmy for his work on KCET's SoCal Connected. He has been nominated for two additional Los Angeles Emmys, and his feature reporting has earned a National Headliner Award and an LA Press Club Award..

In 2005, Conor helped launch youth-oriented cable network Current TV.  Recruited soon after graduating from Yale University, Knighton was the first person to appear on Current TV and went on to host/produce three different successful news/comedy franchises for the network.

Conor was the host and executive producer of Current’s first half-hour show, infoMania, a weekly round-up of news, pop culture, and politics. Developed with Madeleine Smithberg (co-creator, The Daily Show), the show quickly became Current’s most popular regular series, described by Esquire Magazine as a show “every man should watch.”

Movie fans may remember Conor as the host of AMC’s The Movie List, a weekly countdown of movie trivia.  He served as host and consulting producer for Biography’s My Viral Video. In 2012, the EW Scripps Company (one of the nation’s largest independent television station owners), hired Conor to create and host a daily look at travel, finance, and consumer issues that aired on the national newsmagazine The List.

An avid traveller, Conor has produced pieces from India, Nicaragua, The United Arab Emirates, Czech Republic, Iceland, and Austria.  His commentary has been featured on CNN, HLN, TV Guide, MTV, E!, Oxygen, and KNBC.

Born in Charleston, West Virginia, Conor remains especially fond of Tudor’s Biscuit World, pepperoni rolls, and Mountain Stage.