Shayla Harris

An award-winning producer and journalist, she helped lead digital video efforts at The New York Times for nearly a decade. Harris managed the production of mini-documentaries, enterprise videos and web series for The Times. She earned numerous awards as a reporter, producer and digital storyteller, including an Emmy for her work on Life, Interrupted, a documentary series about a young woman with cancer. She has also won a Digital National Magazine Award, a George Foster Peabody Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and several Emmy nominations, including one for Punched Out, an interactive documentary on the death of a hockey enforcer that she shot, produced, edited and wrote.

Prior to joining The Times, Harris worked on award-winning documentaries for Dateline NBC, including as the producer of "The Education of Ms. Groves," which won both an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Peabody Award. She worked as a field producer on specials with Tom Brokaw on the rising cost of healthcare and the Lost Boys of Sudan. She was also an associate producer on "Pattern of Suspicion," a duPont-Columbia award-winning investigation of racial profiling in Cincinnati, and “Children of War,” an Emmy Award winning story on Ugandan child soldiers.

Harris is on the Board of Screeners for the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards and had judged multimedia and short documentaries for contests and film festivals like POYi, POY LatAm and DocNYC. In addition, she has taught, lectured and presented at graduate journalism classes and conferences at NYU, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia, Missouri School of Journalism and many others. She is a graduate of Williams College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.