Morgan Norris

Morgan Norris believes journalism is an art, a science, and a service. She is a graduate from Hampton University with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and is pursuing her Master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University as a full-ride Dean's Scholar. Norris is originally from Atlanta, GA.

She started her journey with Hampton University's newscast, WHOV-TV. She has been a radio member, news writer, reporter, anchor, associate producer, and executive producer. She became a fellow with the Emma Bowen Foundation after her freshman year, catching the director's attention with her package on gas inflation. Norris was an intern with FOX 5 Atlanta for three summers.

Norris is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

She represented Hampton University at the White House HBCU Press Briefing with Vice President Kamala Harris. Norris became a Washington Media Scholars Fellow and an AT&T Rising Future Maker. She worked with Mother Jones to report on the anti-DEI movement at the Virginia Military Institute. Due to her work, Norris became the 2024 Emma Bowen Student of the Year.

During her senior year, Norris was a fellow with InsideClimate News and researched flood prevention and environmental justice in Hampton Roads, earning the Hearst Journalism Award for Explanatory Reporting.

In the spring of 2025, months before her graduation, she lost all of her hair due to alopecia areata. Norris won the Virginia Associated Press Broadcaster Scholarship, became a White House Correspondents Association Truth in Reporting Scholar, was a special guest on Atlanta's "Portia" talk show as an alopecia survivor, and earned a Founders Scholarship through the 2025 NABJ Student Multimedia Projects. The Pulitzer Center chose Norris as a 2025 Campus Consortium Reporting Fellow. She interviewed over thirty Korean natives, dermatologists, beauty influencers, and professionals to produce a 20-minute video feature and 3,000-word article on glutathione mismarketing in South Korea, published by the Pulitzer Center and The Korea Herald.

Norris received full-ride scholarship offers from New York University and Northwestern University and chose the Medill School of Journalism. She hopes to serve as an on-camera reporter and anchor at a newsroom, delivering contextual narratives that transform public interest into understanding.