Morgan Radford

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Morgan Radford
Born (1987-11-18) November 18, 1987 (age 36)
Greensboro, North Carolina
Alma mater Harvard University
Columbia University
Occupation Journalist
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 where she 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.[4] Later in 2009 she was an intern at CNN for Morning Express with Robin Meade.[5] Radford received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2010 where she taught English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. During the 2010 World Cup she was a production assistant for ESPN.[5]

From 2011 to 2012, she attended Columbia University, completing a Master’s degree in broadcast journalism and was named a Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Fellow. Radford 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 for the network where she anchored the former weekend morning newscast.

Radford joined NBC News in September 2015.[citation needed]

References

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