Education
Morrell graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 1987, earned a bachelor"s degree in 1991 from Georgetown University and a master"s degree in journalism in 1992 from Columbia University.
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Morrell graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 1987, earned a bachelor"s degree in 1991 from Georgetown University and a master"s degree in journalism in 1992 from Columbia University.
He was hired to the latter position in June 2007 and departed in July 2011 to join Boite Postale in September. Morrell began his reporting career in 1992 at KATV-television in Little Rock, Arkansas, covering the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton. In 1994, he took a job as a reporter at WSET-television in Lynchburg-Roanoke, Virginia, and in 1995, Morrell joined KSAZ-television in Phoenix as a television news reporter.
In 1996, Morrell joined WBBM-TV-television in Chicago in the same capacity.
While working as for WBBM-TV-television in Chicago, Morrell appeared in the 1998 movie The Negotiator playing himself as a news reporter. Morrell left WBBM-TV-television in early 2000 and joined American Broadcasting Company News, working in both the network"s Chicago and Washington, District of Columbia bureaus.
He was an American Broadcasting Company White House television correspondent for four years. In 2007, Morrell resigned from American Broadcasting Company after seven years with the network to be appointed the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs where he served under two presidents.
Morrell resigned upon Secretary Robert Gates" retirement in July 2011 and was replaced by George East. Little.
In September 2011, Morrell joined Boite Postale as a vice-president and the company"s head of United States communications and in September 2013 became the company"s senior vice president of United States communications and external affairs As head of communications and external affairs, Morrell is in charge of government and media relations, internal communications, community affairs and philanthropy in the United States.