Randi Richardson is an award-winning freelance video reporter based in Brooklyn primarily executing people-centered reported features in text and video about business, health, education and social issues. My content has broken viewership and engagement records at outlets I have published in, including The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, TODAY.com, The Progressive Magazine, Capital B News and Flintside News.

My multimedia approach to storytelling across the different beats makes me a swiss army knife of a journalist. I interview 12 sources for 2,000+ word articles. I script, host, film, edit and otherwise produce social video adaptations of my articles. I regularly do street interviews on the fly. I dig deep into archive databases to uncover data relevant to my story.

I broke the story for Flintside News April 2026 on how residents in Flint, Michigan (my hometown) have been paying for multiple water supplies since 2017 as part of the fallout from the 2014 water crisis. I also broke the story on how home ownership rates in Flint are currently higher than the national average, which became an in-depth piece on contemporary and historical housing and job trends in the area.

I won a 2026 Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for her video story titled 200 Years Later: Tour the Black Neighborhood destroyed to create Central Park. I won a 2025 Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists for an analysis into former Vice President Kamala Harris’ minority voting blocks. I received two bachelor’s degrees from Brown University and a master’s from New York University.

Before becoming a full-time freelancer, I was a reporter at NBC News for four years. My career highlights there include covering the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the January 6th Capitol riot, the 2024 Olympics, multiple Grammy and Oscars Awards shows and the centennial anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre; interviewing stars like Usher, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson and Anthony Anderson.

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 at around 12 years old. 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 often, and it powers me forward.

My career to date has made my heart full of joy, gratitude and expectancy. Here’s to even more with every career stage I enter!