Broadcast News
Description
In this hands-on course, students improve reading, writing and communications skills through learning the fundamentals of journalism and news production.
Semester Projects
In this hands-on course, students improve reading, writing and communications skills through learning the fundamentals of journalism and news production.
Semester Projects
- Produce a weekly student newscast
- Produce an in-field interview
- Produce a studio interview
- Produce a Zoom interview
About the Instructor
Thelisha Eaddy is the local host of South Carolina Public Radio’s Morning Edition, a national news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). Eaddy was recently featured as the first African-American woman to serve in that position.
Eaddy joined SC Public Radio’s team of reporters in 2015 to cover the long-term recovery of the historic flood in Columbia. Since that time, she has continued covering top news stories for the network. In addition to her on-air reporting, Eaddy can be seen on other South Carolina ETV programming, reporting live coverage of elections and providing analysis during Governor Inaugurations, moderating debates, and hosting the program Palmetto Perspectives. In 2019, Eaddy also produced The Road We Trod, a one-hour special on South Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their impact on history and the economy. Prior to working at SC Public Radio, Eaddy was a digital reporter for WSOC-TV in Charlotte, NC and radio announcer for Columbia-based, Glory Communications, Inc radio network. A native of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Eaddy is an award-winning, multimedia journalist, receiving numerous awards, including the South Carolina Broadcasters Association Radio Reporter of the Year award and several Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas awards. |