Aaron L. Morrison

Aaron is an award-winning multimedia journalist and editor based in New York City, where he is the Race and Ethnicity News Editor for The Associated Press, overseeing a team of reporters covering Black, Latino, Asian American and Indigenous communities across the U.S. Before that, he was a national writer on AP's R&E team, a senior reporter at The Appeal, and an on-air correspondent and senior writer for Mic. His work has also appeared in The Record newspaper in Bergen County, New Jersey.

Aaron's reporting on Jameek Lowery — a Black man who died after being restrained by police in Paterson, New Jersey — was part of "Lethal Restraint," a three-year AP investigation produced with FRONTLINE (PBS) and the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism. The project, which documented more than 1,000 deaths nationwide following police use of tactics not meant to be lethal, was named a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting, and its accompanying FRONTLINE documentary, "Documenting Police Use of Force," received two 2025 News & Documentary Emmy nominations. The investigation also won a national Edward R. Murrow Award, a National Headliner Award, and Deadline Club awards.

Aaron also serves as an adjunct lecturer for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in Manhattan, where he continues to teach the "Reporting on Race" course he developed in 2021.

Aaron typically writes and edits stories about race, civil rights, politics, criminal justice reform and grassroots social movements, and he has reported extensively on developments in the Black Lives Matter movement. He recently helped shepherd "This City Was Black," a six-part AP audio series tracing Black history and identity in New York City, reflecting his growing role guiding team-driven, format-innovative coverage rather than reporting solo.

From 2012-2015, he served as the Miami Herald's freelance resident correspondent at the United Nations, covering Latin America, the Caribbean and other issues impacting the Western Hemisphere. During his stint at the U.N., Aaron was selected as a 2013 fellow of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, affording him trips to Morocco, Jordan and Qatar. The program fosters intercultural dialogue between young leaders and journalists in Western and Middle Eastern societies.

Aaron is a longtime member of the National Association of Black Journalists and has previously served on the board of the organization's New York City chapter.

He has a BA degree in Journalism from San Francisco State University. In 2018, Aaron was recognized as an "Outstanding Journalism Alumnus" by the faculty of SF State's Journalism Department.

Aaron is a native of Oakland, California.