Anne Marie Morgan

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News Department:

Anne Marie Morgan - Reporter, Richmond Bureau

E-mail: AMMorgan@vt.edu

Anne Marie Morgan is one of the most experienced State Capitol broadcast journalists in Virginia. Anne Marie is the Richmond Bureau Chief for Virginia Public Radio which is a service of WVTF in cooperation with other public radio stations in Virginia which pay membership fees to WVTF for the news content provided by VPR. Anne Marie has also worked as an anchor and Capitol Reporter for the Virginia News Network (a commercial enterprise not connected to Virginia Public Radio). She previously worked as State Capitol Reporter for WTVR-TV, WRIC-TV, and Virginia-PBS Television, where she hosted and co-produced a variety of television programs, including Capitol Views and Virginia Legislature: The Week. She also reported Virginia news for two national networks, USA Radio News and International Media Service News. Anne Marie is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Virginia Capitol Correspondents Association, and teaches undergraduates as an Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond School of Continuing Studies.

She earned a B.A. in Government and Psychology from the College of William and Mary, where she also pursued graduate studies in Counseling. She earned an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Richmond, where she was inducted into the National Political Science Honor Society, and then began Ph.D. studies in Public Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Anne Marie holds the conviction that the news media are supposed to serve an essential function in a democratic republic: "A popular government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both" (James Madison).

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