NY Times hires WSJ’s Morgan

Nailah Morgan

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.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.