Darragh Worland

A journalist and multimedia educator and consultant, Darragh Worland has worked for several major news organizations, including six years as a writer, web producer and field producer at NY1 News, a Time Warner-owned cable outlet that covers New York City. After that, she was a senior producer for MSN Money, where she covered the financial crisis, shooting and producing video features for the web. 

From 2007 to 2011, Darragh was an adjunct assistant professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she helped launch the Local East Village blog in partnership with The New York Times. In 2010, ABC News retained her to train its staff in digital video production as part of the organization’s move toward a “digital journalist” model. She has also designed and taught online and in-class multimedia courses and seminars for Mediabistro, PRNDI and other media organizations to help journalists and communications professionals around the world keep pace with the changing media landscape.

Today, Darragh serves as vice president for digital media and New York program manager for the News Literacy Project, a non-profit organization that helps middle school and high school students become smarter and more frequent consumers and creators of news and information.

Darragh is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she studied English and drama, and has a master’s degree in journalism, with a focus on cultural reporting and broadcasting, from NYU.