Reported with Randi Richardson is a digital show on YouTube covering news, culture and community through trusted reporting. This online newspaper is the text extension of the show.

I am your anchor and executive editor, Randi Richardson. I am a trained professional reporter currently freelancing for various publications. Before becoming a freelance journalist, I worked at NBC News for four years. I did undergrad at Brown University and earned my master’s at NYU. I am a proud Michigan supremacist and I love all things Jesus, joy and justice. I wish I could teleport.

I have covered everything from popculture to politics. My career highlights include:

• Landing exclusive interviews with artist Cupid, who famously sings “Cupid Shuffle,” and actor Philip Smither, who stars on show “Johnson,” for Reported with Randi Richardson.
• Covering the 2024 presidential election and winning a national award for my work
• Reporting on New York City’s 2024 mayoral election for The Progressive Magazine, including conceptualizing and executing a social video that became the outlet’s most-watched reel on Instagram within just 60 hours of posting.
• Growing The Wall Street Journal’s TikTok audience by 20,000 followers during my first month there as a social video intern; I also conceptualized and executed an Instagram reel that reached over 1 million views, plus several others that got over 1 million impressions on LinkedIn.
• Contributing to live coverage of the 2025 Oscars while interning at NBC News
• Live blogging the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump when I was a News Associate at NBC News
• Interviewing Usher, Tracee Ellis Ross, Chiney and Nneka Ogwumike, Morris Chestnut and other celebrities for profiles published when I was an associate trending reporter at TODAY.com
• Researching and writing in-depth reported service pieces on the origins and aftermath of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, racial disparities in fertility care and suicide, how structural racism impacts a child’s brain and a series on higher education regarding housing and student loan debt for NBC News and TODAY.com.

My multimedia approach to storytelling across the different beats of news, politics, popculture, sports and race make me a swiss army knife of a journalist. I write scripts for packages or reels before shooting, producing and editing them. I interview experts, community members or survivors that I cold email or come across while doing street interviews. I dig deep into archive databases to uncover data relevant to my story. I structure and write articles in an easy-to-read way, and I flip them into social videos.

I am originally from Flint, Michigan, and vividly remember bending my parents’ ear about wanting to be a reporter so much so that they put a studio in our basement — complete with track lights on the ceiling. The studio, and the office that I already had downstairs, were my first newsroom.

I felt like I could do anything while working in that space. I was so bright eyed and bushy tailed. I think back to this feeling when the throws of my current reporting wear on me.

My career to date has made my heart full of joy, gratitude and expectancy. I’ve known since around age 12 that I wanted to be a national on-air reporter covering the issues and communities that I care about most. To now be living that dream is an honor and I thank God for His faithfulness. I thank my family for their investment, and I thank myself for not giving up on me.