Morgan Radford


Morgan Kelly Radford is an American television news reporter employed by NBC News as a New York-based correspondent.

Biography

Radford is originally from Greensboro, North Carolina. Her mother, Dr. Lily Kelly-Radford, is a former clinical psychologist and current management consultant. Radford graduated from Grimsley High School. 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. Later in 2009, she was an intern at CNN for Morning Express with Robin Meade. 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.
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.
On the December 1, 2019, telecast of Sunday Today, Radford's engagement was revealed by host Willie Geist.