Bryan Harrison

Charleston publisher Bryan Harrison died Tuesday, January 26, 2021. A journalist, advocate and minister, he was 84 years old. A funeral service will be held in Grace Church Cathedral, Saturday February 13, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. with entombment following in the church columbarium. The family will receive friends via ZOOM immediately following the service. Please email John61379@yahoo.com for a link.

Mr. Harrison, a native of Asheville, North Carolina, wrote for the online publication, The Charleston Daily News and later became the Published and Editor of Charleston News Alternative.

He worked for and was published in a number of daily newspapers in the United States and was the owner, published and editor of four weekly newspapers in North Carolina and Virginia. He was the winner of two press association awards in those two states.

In the 1970's, his stories and photographs were published nation-wide via wire services and his work appeared in the national publications Newsweek and USA Today and also in The London Daily Mirror.

In California, Mr. Harrison published Vista, a news magazine for the Isla Vista community, and Center Page, a news magazine for 12-step programs.

While attending East Carolina College in 1958, he founded the school's literary magazine, The Rebel, which is still being published.

In addition to other journalistic endeavors in California, Mr. Harrison wrote four plays, two of them musicals, which were staged by The Triangle Players in Santa Barbara, California.

Also in Santa Barbara he helped found and operate a center to help alcoholic and addicted home persons. An advocate for homeless persons and homeless causes, he, later in life, became a counselor and ordained minister, and started a church for homeless people in Isla Vista, California.

He is survived by a son, John David Harrison of Hendersonville, North Carolina; a nephew, James Wade Harrison of Burlington, North Carolina; a niece, Teresa Johnson of Asheville, North Carolina; two grand nieces: Allison Harrison of Washington, D.C. and Maegan Johnson of Asheville, North Carolina; and two grand nephews: Thomas Johnson of Asheville, North Carolina and Evan Harrison of Pittsboro, North Carolina and his children.