Morgan Kelly Radford (born November 18, 1987) is an American television news anchor & reporter employed by

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as a

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-based correspondent.

Early life and education

Radford is originally from

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. Her mother, Dr. Lily Kelly-Radford, is a former

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and current

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. Radford graduated from Grimsley High School. In May 2009, she graduated from Harvard University with honors earning a

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in Social Studies and Foreign Language Citations in

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and

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. Later in 2009, she was an intern at CNN for '' Morning Express with Robin Meade''. Radford received a

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in 2010 where she taught

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, South Africa. During the

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, she was a

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for

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. From 2011 to 2012, Radford attended

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, completing a

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and was named a Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Fellow.

Career

Early career

She joined

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as a fellow in 2012, where she eventually anchored for ABC News Now. She moved to

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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

and

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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

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. In January 2022, Radford married Williams in Cartagena,

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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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