Morgan Radford

Morgan Kelly Radford (born November 18, 1987)[1] is an American television news reporter employed by NBC News as a New York-based correspondent.[2][3]

Morgan Radford
Radford in 2017
Born (1987-11-18) November 18, 1987
Greensboro, North Carolina
Alma materHarvard University
Columbia University
OccupationJournalist
Notable credit(s)
NBC News
Al Jazeera America
ABC News Now

Biography

Radford is originally from Greensboro, North Carolina. Her mother, Dr. Lily Kelly-Radford, is a former clinical psychologist and current management consultant.[4] Radford graduated from Grimsley High School.[1] In May 2009, she graduated from Harvard University with honors earning a Bachelor's degree in Social Studies and Foreign Language Citations in French and Spanish.[5] Later in 2009, she was an intern at CNN for Morning Express with Robin Meade.[6] Radford received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2010 where she taught English in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. During the 2010 World Cup, she was a production assistant for ESPN.[6]

From 2011 to 2012, Radford attended Columbia University, completing a Master's degree in Broadcast Journalism and was named a Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Fellow. She joined ABC as a fellow in 2012, where she eventually anchored for ABC News Now. She moved to Al Jazeera America in 2013 as an anchor/correspondent, where she anchored the former weekend morning newscast. Radford joined NBC News and MSNBC in September 2015.[3]

References
  1. "Grimsley grad's career path leads to Al-Jazeera anchor desk - Greensboro News & Record: Go Triad". News-record.com. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  2. Chris Ariens (2015-08-20). "Morgan Radford Joins NBC News | TVNewser". Adweek.com. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  3. "Inside NBC News | Public Relations". Press.nbcnews.com. 2015-08-20. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  4. Deborah Smith Bailey. "Leadership by Example." Monitor on Psychology. American Psychological Association,volume 35, #7, July/August 2004.
  5. http://utlo.ukzn.ac.za/Files/TLHEC%202010%20Handbook.pdf
  6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2014-08-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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