Morgun, Maria Alekseevna is a journalist, editor-in-chief of the Jivaya Planeta TV channel, TV host, and correspondent of the VGTRK * (The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company)*. She was born on September 20, 1984, in Moscow, Russia.

Maria attended a school with an in-depth study of the French language.

While she was in 11th grade she decided to study at the Faculty of Law but changed her mind after visiting an open day at Higher School of Economics) and graduated the Department of business and political journalism in 2007.

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Maria Morgun has started her career from practicing in the news department of the Channel One Russia in 2004, where she worked for the next two years.

Later on she became a member of VGTRK (The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company) since 2006. Maria has begun working there as a correspondent of the "Russia-24" TV channel. In 2008 she broadcasted the Pryamaya Liniya with Vladimir Putin. Maria Morgun has Traveled half the world, recording political and economic reports, among which there were series of reports from the expedition "Miry" on Lake Baikal.

As of January 19 2009, Maria works at the News of the economy as an anchorwoman on Russia-24 channel. In the next year, she became an author and a host on the My Planet channel, hosting Vesti and Ya mogu ( with ** Denis Seminihin ) on the Russia-2 channel. Since 2011 Maria appeared on the Gran-Prix program with Aleksey Popov. Morgun hosts the daily broadcast on Russia-24 channel since 2012 . ** She works as the editor-in-chief of the cognitive television channel about the animal world named Jivaya Planeta since 2014, which began its official broadcasting on March 1, 2015. On January 20, 2014, Maria Morgun became one of the Torchbearers of the Olympic Winter Games torch relay race in 2014 at its stage in Volgograd.

According to Maria, everyone in her family has to work regardless of position and age: "My grandmother, who is 75 years old, still works, she helps children with health problems and her specialty is a pediatric curative pedagogy".

Maria is married and has two daughters: Ulyana (born in 2012) and Sophia (born in 2014).

Her spouse is a businessman and works in the field of construction.

Maria Morgun does not like sharing information about her family: "I just do not consider it necessary to show my family pictures, especially children's, and putting their pictures on the Internet," she says.

Maria Morgun made a reservation and called the State Duma a "gosdura" (State Fool) during a three-hour release on Russia 24 сhannel in 2013. This happened in the 29th minute. The management of the channel apologized for the disclaimer of Maria. Vladimir Pozner also made the same reservation in one of the issues of his program and immediately apologized to the viewers.