On location - volcanic eruption
Producer · Executive · Storyteller

Stories that change how we see the world

Six-time Emmy Award-winning media executive, investigative producer, and co-founder of Paradocs Studio. Two decades telling the stories that matter most — from the frontlines of war to the halls of power — at 60 Minutes and NBC News.

6× Emmy Award Winner 2× duPont-Columbia Edward R. Murrow Award 25+ Emmy Nominations Women-Owned
6Emmy Awards
25+Emmy Nominations
15+Countries
20Years in News
On location at volcanic eruption
With correspondent Seth Doane at the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland for 60 Minutes Plus on Paramount+
Reporting in Myanmar
Reporting from Myanmar for a 60 Minutes piece on Aung San Suu Kyi and the Rohingya
With Justice Sotomayor
With Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for her first broadcast interview
About

The journalist behind the stories

Rachael Morehouse with Emmy Award and Scott Pelley
With correspondent Scott Pelley at the Emmy Awards
Behind the scenes in Damascus with President Assad
Behind the scenes in Damascus — preparing for a rare interview with Syria's President Assad

I've built my career on the belief that the most important stories deserve the most rigorous, most creative, most ambitious storytelling. At 60 Minutes, I spent 15 years as part of an exclusive two-person team with correspondent Scott Pelley — scouring the world for investigative, original stories and crafting them into layered narratives that reached millions.

My reporting has taken me to more than 15 countries — from a rare interview with Syria's President Assad in Damascus to discovering Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad in an Iraqi refugee camp just two weeks after she escaped from ISIS. That 60 Minutes piece won an Emmy and became one of the most celebrated segments in the show's modern history.

At NBC News, I created the network's first digital in-house documentary unit — Digital Docs — producing films on Ukraine's stolen children, the Israel-Hamas war, and the rise of hip hop fashion. The unit earned an Edward R. Murrow Award, multiple Emmy nominations, and an Oscar-qualifying festival premiere in its first year.

Now I'm channeling everything I've learned into Paradocs Studio, the production company I co-founded with Michelle St. John, developing prestige documentary and docu-series projects.

I live in Scarsdale, New York with my husband Tim Morehouse — an Olympic silver medalist in fencing and currently the Olympic coach for men's saber. Tim taught President Obama to fence on the White House lawn and was named one of Obama's "Champions of Change." We're raising twins who are growing up surrounded by both swords and stories.

Our Wedding in the NYT
Selected Work

Stories that made an impact

Emmy Award-winning documentaries and segments produced across 60 Minutes and NBC News.

Out of Darkness - patients after eye surgery in Burma
CBS News · 60 Minutes · Producer
Out of Darkness
Two doctors — one an Ivy League adrenaline junkie, the other a Buddhist surgeon from Nepal — have restored sight to more than 150,000 people. We joined them on a mission in Burma to lead an entire country out of darkness, one patient at a time.
Emmy Nominated
President el-Sisi
President el-Sisi
Olympic Cheating
Olympic Cheating
The New Burma
The New Burma
The Rhino Crisis
The Rhino Crisis
Airlift
Airlift
Robin Hood
Robin Hood
TED Talks
TED Talks
Valerie Jarrett
Valerie Jarrett
Nadia
Nadia
The Health Wagon
The Health Wagon
Africa Mercy
Africa Mercy
Killing Bin Laden
Killing Bin Laden
In the Field

Where the stories happen

From Iraqi refugee camps to the presidential palace in Damascus — reporting takes you to places most people will never see.

Behind the monitors during the Nadia Murad interview
Rachael conducting an interview on location
Burma sunset road
Monk after eye surgery
Burmese girl smiling with thanaka
Burmese baby with thanaka paste
Filming Nadia at her destroyed village
Nadia's emotional reunion with family
Yazidi elder in keffiyeh
Interviewing Iraqi military officials
Children in refugee camp
Nadia Murad with military escort under dramatic sky
Eye care treatment in Burma
Monks praying by candlelight
Dr. Geoff Tabin with patient after restoring sight
Ox carts on a dusty road in Burma
River boats along the Yangon waterfront
Rachael in helicopter on location
Helicopter over active lava flow
Editorial meeting at 60 Minutes
Aung San Suu Kyi interview — behind the scenes
Burmese girl with thanaka
With the Obamas at the White House
Convoy in Iraq
Iraqi soldiers on the frontline
Nadia returns to her destroyed village
Ox cart at dusk in Burma
Career

Two decades of journalism

From broadcast associate to network executive — a career built on finding the stories nobody else can tell.

2024 — Present
Co-Founder & Co-President
Paradocs Studio
Co-founded a prestige documentary production company developing documentary and docu-series projects across science, human rights, music, exploration, and culinary culture.
2022 — 2024
Executive Producer, Digital Docs
NBC News
Created NBC News' first in-house documentary unit. Edward R. Murrow Award, multiple Emmy nominations, and an Oscar-qualifying festival premiere — all within the first year. Distributed across NBC Nightly News, Today, MSNBC, Peacock, and News Now.
2020 — 2022
Director / Producer
CBS News — 60 in 6 (Quibi) & 60 Minutes Plus (Paramount+)
Led the digital adaptation of the 60 Minutes brand for streaming platforms. Produced mini-documentaries bridging traditional longform journalism with digital-first audiences.
2007 — 2020
Broadcast Associate → Producer → Director / Producer
CBS News — 60 Minutes
15 years at the most prestigious news magazine in television. Started as broadcast associate to Mike Wallace, rose to producer alongside correspondent Scott Pelley. 6 Emmy Awards, 2 duPont-Columbia Awards, 25+ Emmy nominations. Reporting from 15+ countries.
Current Venture

Paradocs Studio

Where paradox meets documentary

Co-Founded with Michelle St. John · Women-Owned · 2024

Paradocs Studio produces prestige documentary films, branded content, and strategic consulting. We believe the best stories live in the tension between opposites — fact and feeling, rigor and poetry, tradition and invention.

We're currently developing prestige documentary and docu-series projects, each built to challenge assumptions and reveal deeper truths.

Visit Paradocs Studio →
Education

Foundation

Columbia University
M.S. in Broadcast Journalism — Graduate School of Journalism
2007
Barnard College, Columbia University
B.A. in Psychology, Cum Laude
2005

Let's tell a story
worth telling

Whether it's a documentary, branded content, consulting, or speaking — I'd love to hear from you.