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Morgan Radford
Radford in 2017
Born (1987-11-18) November 18, 1987 (age 36)
Greensboro, North Carolina
Alma materHarvard University
Columbia University
OccupationJournalist
Notable credit(s)NBC News
Al Jazeera America
ABC News Now

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]

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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "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. [1]
  5. ^ http://utlo.ukzn.ac.za/Files/TLHEC%202010%20Handbook.pdf
  6. ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2014-08-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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