Shayla Harris

Shayla Harris is an award-winning Senior Video Producer at The New York Times who oversees and commissions mini-docs and series for the web. Before that, she was a senior video journalist at the Times who produced, shot and edited local, national and international stories. She started as a producer and field producer on documentaries for Dateline NBC. Over her career, she has earned a News Emmy for her work on “Life, Interrupted,” a documentary series about a young woman with cancer, as well as a Digital National Magazine Award, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, several Emmy nominations and an Overseas Press Club Award among others. In addition, she has taught at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.