Nailah Morgan has been hired by the New York Times as a weekend live news producer.
She will be working on news clips, livestreams and breaking news packages, as well as helping the Times align closer with the newsroom on live news strategy.
Morgan comes from The Wall Street Journal, where she worked as a video journalist on the news and analysis team. At The Journal, Morgan pitched, produced and edited breaking news videos, helped set the daily news agenda for the video team and worked on social video.
A graduate of the journalism master’s program at the University of California, Berkeley, Morgan has also worked as an associate producer at NowThis News, a video production assistant at NBC’s “Today” show, and a summer fellow with Rachel Maddow.
Morgan has produced documentaries in Egypt, Sweden and Mexico.
