Emily Morgan (journalist)
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Emily Morgan (22 July 1977 – 26 May 2023) was a British journalist. She worked for
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for two decades and at her death was the network's health and science editor.


Early life and education

Born at
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in
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, Emily Morgan was the second of three daughters of an agricultural consultant and grew up in the village of Little Compton. Her younger sister is Polly Morgan, taxidermist / artist. She was educated at
Sibford School Sibford School is a British co-educational independent school in Sibford Ferris, west of Banbury in north Oxfordshire, linked with the Religious Society of Friends. The school has both day and boarding pupils between the ages of 3 and 18. It is ...
, studied theatre with culture and communication at
Lancaster University Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a collegiate public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several new univer ...
, and earned a postgraduate degree in journalism at the
University of Central Lancashire The University of Lancashire (previously abbreviated UCLan) is a public university based in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. It has its roots in ''The Institution For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge'', founded in 1828. Previously k ...
.


Career

Morgan began her career in 2001 creating and reading news bulletins at
Independent Radio News Independent Radio News provides a service of news bulletins, audio and copy to commercial radio stations in the United Kingdom and beyond. The managing director, Tim Molloy, succeeded long-term MD John Perkins in November 2009. Perkins had been ...
. She subsequently became a producer under ITV's political editor
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and then an on-camera news reporter, covering Wales and the West of England and then becoming a political correspondent. In 2012, she reported on the disappearance of April Jones for ITV. As ITV News' health and science editor, Morgan led the network's coverage of the
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, including the first reporting from inside an acute COVID ward, at the
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in 2020, the controversy about PPE contracts, and
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. Her last story was on patients paying for private health care because of long waiting lists at the
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, and she had also recently begun reporting on
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, for example in March 2023 on victims of the 2022 Pakistan floods still living with high water.


Personal life and death

Morgan married Rob Kinnaird in 2009; they had two daughters. She lived in
Hurstpierpoint Hurstpierpoint is a village in the Mid Sussex district, in the county of West Sussex, England, southwest of Burgess Hill, and west of Hassocks railway station. It sits in the civil parish of Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common which has an ...
, near
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. She died on 26 May 2023, at the age of 45, from lung cancer; she had been diagnosed the previous month.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Emily 1977 births 2023 deaths Alumni of Lancaster University ITN newsreaders and journalists English women journalists British women television journalists Deaths from lung cancer in England People from Banbury People from Mid Sussex District People from Stratford-on-Avon District Alumni of the University of Central Lancashire