DeMarco Morgan is an American
broadcast journalist
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previously anchored at
ABC News ABC News most commonly refers to:
* ABC News (Australia), a national news service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
* ABC News (United States), a news-gathering and broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company
ABC News may a ...
. He previously co-anchored ''
GMA3: What You Need to Know'' with
Eva Pilgrim.
Background
In 1997, Morgan graduated from
Booker T. Washington High School in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa ( ) is the List of municipalities in Oklahoma, second-most-populous city in the U.S. state, state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and the List of United States cities by population, 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The po ...
, during which he earned an internship working at
KOTV
KOTV-DT (channel 6) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Griffin Media alongside Muskogee, Oklahoma, Muskogee-licensed The CW, CW affiliate KQCW-DT (channel 19) and radio stations KOTV ...
.
In 2001, he received a
Bachelor of Science
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...
degree from
Jackson State University
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,
Mississippi
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,
and in 2002, earned his
Master's Degree
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from
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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.
While working on his Master's at Columbia, he helped found the J-School's student chapter of the
National Association of Black Journalists
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(
NABJ
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),
interned with ''
CBS Evening News
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''
and ''
48 Hours'', and was named a Fred Friendly Scholar,
Dupont Scholar, and CBS Scholar.
Activism
Morgan has volunteered with
Big Brothers Big Sisters,
the
American Cancer Society
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History
The society w ...
, the
NAACP
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, and
Sweet Alice Harris.
He has also served on the board of managers for the
YMCA
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, and is an active member of the
Kappa Alpha Psi
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fraternity
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.
Career
Morgan began his broadcasting career while working on his master's degree at
Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism
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when he covered the
September 11 attacks
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.
Morgan also taught journalism at Jackson State University for two years and English at
Milwaukee Area Technical College
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.
After graduation, Morgan landed his first reporting job at
CBS
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affiliate
WJTV
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in
Jackson, Mississippi
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.
In 2004, he joined
ABC
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affiliate
WISN in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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,
co-anchoring alongside Portia Young
for three years.
In 2007, he joined
NBC
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station
WTVJ
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in
Miami
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as an anchor and reporter.
In December 2008, he joined NBC's flagship station in
New York
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,
WNBC
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, as a weekend anchor, and also as a cut-in anchor for
MSNBC
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.
Morgan joined
Atlanta
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's
NBC
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affiliate,
WXIA
WXIA-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate WATL (channel 36). The two stations share studios at One Monroe Place on the north e ...
, in January 2012, where he co-anchored the 6 P.M. newscast weeknights with Brenda Wood and reported for the 11 P.M. nightly broadcast.
While in Atlanta, Morgan also taught journalism classes at
Morehouse College
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and
Clark Atlanta University
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.
In October 2015, Morgan left WXIA to join
CBS News
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as a correspondent.
On April 17, 2019, it was announced that Morgan would move to CBS station KCBS in
Los Angeles
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on May 6, 2019 as the weekday morning anchor for the 4:30-7:00 A.M. and 11:00 A.M. newscasts, alongside Suzanne Marques.
During the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, he also anchored select newscasts for CBS station
WCBS in New York and the
CBS Weekend News
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from Los Angeles, as infected CBS employees had disallowed the use of the
CBS Broadcast Center
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.
Morgan became a correspondent and anchor in late 2022 for ABC News, and was quickly tasked with being a part of the anchor rotation for ''
GMA3: What You Need to Know'' due to personnel issues with its former anchors. Morgan and Eva Pilgrim were named permanent anchors for the show in May 2023 alongside Dr.
Jennifer Ashton.
ABC announces new 'GMA3' co-anchors following Amy Robach, T.J. Holmes affair scandal
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Awards and nominations
While in college in 2001, Morgan became the only African-American male to rank in Scripps Howard
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's Top 10 Collegiate Journalists in the country.
While in Milwaukee, Morgan was the Honorary Grand Marshal two years in a row for the United Negro College Fund
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, and has been honored with several Associated Press and broadcasting awards.
In '' Ebony Magazine's'' 2006 recognition of African Americans for their "knowing the importance of giving back to their communities" and for their reflecting "the burgeoning leader within", Morgan was listed as "One of America's Young Leaders of the Future". Also in 2006, he received the NABJ
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National Community Service Award.
In 2009, Morgan received the "Thurgood Marshall
Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme C ...
Prestige Award" for community service during his time in New York.
References
External links
11 Alive WXIA-TV Bio: Demarco Morgan
TMZ: NY News Anchor Real Life Ron Burgundy
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Living people
American television reporters and correspondents
African-American journalists
21st-century African-American people
Television personalities from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Jackson State University alumni
1978 births