Morrigan McCarthy is an award-winning journalist and visual storyteller with more than 15 years of experience both in the field as a photographer and reporter, and as an editor, commissioning photography as well as illustration.
Morrigan worked at The New York Times for 8 years, as a visual editor, running photo coverage of the 2016 presidential election, and later, national news. She also worked as an editor on the Travel desk focused on audience engagement, and as a sort of internal consultant, helping the newsroom to do better, more innovative storytelling by working with leadership, product, audience and strategy teams.
Before working at the Times, she freelanced as a writer and photographer doing stories for publications like ELLE. She spent four years of her life riding her bicycle around the United States and then halfway around the world, then one more year driving around the United States in a Honda Element outfitted as a primitive camper.