Morgan Kelly Radford (born November 18, 1987)
is an American television news anchor & reporter employed by
NBC News
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as a
New York-based correspondent.
Early life and education
Radford is originally from
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro (; formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte and Raleigh, the 69th-most populous city in the Un ...
. Her mother, Dr. Lily Kelly-Radford, is a former
clinical psychologist and current
management consultant
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. Radford graduated from
Grimsley High School
Grimsley Senior High School, also known as Grimsley High School or simply Grimsley, is a public high school in Greensboro, North Carolina. Formerly known as "Greensboro High School," "Greensboro Central High School," and then "Greensboro Senior ...
.
In May 2009, she graduated from Harvard University with honors earning a
bachelor's degree
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in
Social Studies and Foreign Language Citations in
French and
Spanish
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. Later in 2009, she was an intern at
CNN
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for ''
Morning Express with Robin Meade
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About the show
''Morning Express with Robin Meade'' aired weekdays on HLN from 6:00 am ...
''.
Radford received a
Fulbright Scholarship in 2010 where she taught
English
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in
Durban
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,
Kwa-Zulu Natal
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, South Africa. During the
2010 World Cup, she was a
production assistant
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for
ESPN
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.
From 2011 to 2012, Radford attended
Columbia University
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, completing a
master's degree
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broadcast journalism
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and was named a Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Fellow.
Career
Early career
She joined
ABC News
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as a fellow in 2012, where she eventually anchored for
ABC News Now
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. She moved to
Al Jazeera America
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in 2013 as an anchor/correspondent, where she anchored the former
weekend morning newscast.
NBC News
In September 2015, Radford joined
NBC News
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and
MSNBC
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as a correspondent.
In April 2021, she was given her own show on NBC News alongside Aaron Gilchrist for NBC News' live-streaming outlet, NBC News Now.
In September 2022, Radford became co-anchor of NBC News Daily in addition to being an NBC News Now anchor and an NBC News correspondent.
Personal life
Radford was originally scheduled to get married to her fiancé David Williams in May 2020 but their wedding was postponed due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. In January 2022, Radford married Williams in
Cartagena,
Colombia
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.
In 2018, Radford publicly discussed freezing her eggs for maintaining fertility options.
In August 2022, Radford announced that she was pregnant with her first child.
References
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1987 births
Al Jazeera people
NBC News people
African-American journalists
African-American women journalists
American women television journalists
American television news anchors
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
Harvard University alumni
Living people
People from Greensboro, North Carolina
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
20th-century African-American people
20th-century African-American women
Fulbright alumni
Grimsley High School alumni