{"id":3232,"date":"2016-03-23T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2016-03-23T20:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T20:29:18","slug":"demarco-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/2016\/03\/23\/demarco-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMarco Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/03\/Demarco-Morgan-1.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Demarco Morgan (1)\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3229 alignleft\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/03\/Demarco-Morgan-1-300x298.jpg\" title=\"\" width=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/03\/Demarco-Morgan-1-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/03\/Demarco-Morgan-1-1024x1018.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/03\/Demarco-Morgan-1-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2016\/03\/Demarco-Morgan-1.jpg 1239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>DeMarco Morgan<\/strong> was named a correspondent for CBS News, based in New York City. Morgan, who joins later this year, comes from WXIA the NBC affiliate in Atlanta, where he has been a reporter and main co-anchor of the station&rsquo;s weekday newscasts since 2012.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAfter graduating from Jackson State University, Morgan landed his first reporting job at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CBS\" title=\"CBS\">CBS<\/a> affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WJTV\" title=\"WJTV\">WJTV<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackson,_Mississippi\" title=\"Jackson, Mississippi\">Jackson, Mississippi<\/a>. In 2004, he joined <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Broadcasting_Company\" title=\"American Broadcasting Company\">ABC<\/a>&#039;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WISN-TV\" title=\"WISN-TV\">WISN<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milwaukee,_Wisconsin\" title=\"Milwaukee, Wisconsin\">Milwaukee, Wisconsin<\/a>, co-anchoring alongside Portia Young and serving for three years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn 2007, he joined <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NBC_Owned_Television_Stations\" title=\"NBC Owned Television Stations\">NBC&#039;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WTVJ\" title=\"WTVJ\">WTVJ<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miami,_Florida\" title=\"Miami, Florida\">Miami, Florida<\/a>, as an anchor and reporter. In December 2008, he joined <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WNBC\" title=\"WNBC\">WNBC<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" title=\"New York City\">New York City<\/a>. Morgan began his broadcasting career while working on his Master&#039;s Degree at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbia_University\" title=\"Columbia University\">Columbia<\/a>, while in the Graduate School of Journalism he covered the September 11 terrorist attacks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMorgan taught journalism at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackson_State_University\" title=\"Jackson State University\">JSU<\/a> for two years and taught English at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milwaukee_Area_Technical_College\" title=\"Milwaukee Area Technical College\">Milwaukee Area Technical College<\/a>. Morgan has also taught at Spelman and Morehouse College in Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeMarco Morgan was named a correspondent for CBS News, based in New York City. Morgan, who joins later this year, comes from WXIA the NBC affiliate in Atlanta, where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}