About

Morrigan McCarthy is an award-winning visual storyteller with more than 15 years of experience as a photographer, editor and creative director.

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 visual storytelling by working with leadership, product, audience and strategy teams. She currently works at The Wall Street Journal where she leads a team of photo editors who cover national and political news.

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 creating a public art project.