Morgan Black
Morgan Black reports on how decisions in workplaces, schools and local services ripple through everyday life, with a particular focus on how policy and market forces shape experiences for workers, families and small businesses. Her coverage blends daily reporting with longer-form features, often examining the practical consequences of shortages, rule changes and system pressures for people on the ground.
Workplaces, business impacts and the downtown economy
Black frequently covers stories at the intersection of work and commerce, looking at how shifts in employment practices affect local businesses. In recent coverage, she has reported on provincial employees returning to full-time office work and spoke with business owners in the downtown core about how increased foot traffic could translate into sales and stability for cafés and retailers. Her reporting in these pieces concentrates on real-time reaction from business operators and workers, giving a clear sense of how workplace policy decisions translate into economic outcomes for specific neighbourhoods and sectors.
Across this line of work, she focuses on the small-business perspective, documenting cautious optimism as well as ongoing concerns about inflation, customer demand and changing routines. She uses on-location reporting and interviews to show how broader economic trends are experienced at street level, building her stories around concrete examples rather than abstract indicators.
Supply pressures and agriculture-related business stories
Black extends her interest in economic impacts to agriculture, reporting on how supply constraints and market disruptions affect producers and the businesses that serve them. In her coverage of a shortage of a vital product for newborn calves, she details how farmers are scrambling to secure what one source described as “gold in a bag,” and how that scarcity affects both animal health and farm operations. Her work in this area focuses on the practical challenges producers face when key inputs become hard to find or more expensive, showing the downstream effects on rural business planning and risk.
These agriculture business stories are grounded in interviews with farmers and suppliers, which she uses to illustrate how seemingly technical issues in supply chains can quickly become urgent problems at the farm level. She highlights the improvisation, contingency plans and financial trade-offs producers must consider when essential products are in short supply.
Education systems, safety and public services
Alongside her business-facing coverage, Black reports extensively on conditions in public services, especially education. In her feature on violence in Alberta classrooms, based on a survey of teachers, she explores how frequent incidents of aggression are affecting educators’ sense of safety, classroom management and workload. She presents detailed accounts from teachers and situates them within broader discussions about policy, staffing and support, giving readers a clear picture of the pressures within school systems.
Her work on public services often tracks how institutional decisions and resource levels shape experiences for front-line workers and families, whether in schools, government offices or other settings. This strand of her reporting complements her business coverage by following the same through-line: how systems and policies translate into daily realities for people who rely on them.
Reporting style and formats
Black is a reporter with CBC News in Edmonton and contributes regularly to Edmonton AM, working across audio, video and digital formats. She is described as being passionate about daily news as well as long-form journalism, and her portfolio reflects that mix: quick-turn stories from the field, survey-based features, and deeper explorations of issues affecting workplaces, classrooms and communities. Her television pieces often place her on location, speaking directly with workers, business owners and service users, while her digital work expands on these encounters with additional context and explanation.
Across formats, she emphasises clear, accessible storytelling grounded in specific examples and firsthand accounts. Whether covering office return policies, classroom safety or agricultural supply problems, she centres the voices of those directly affected and connects their experiences to the broader economic and policy landscape.
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