Scott Morgan
Scott Morgan
Reporter, Producer
Scott Morgan is the Upstate multimedia reporter for SC Public Radio, based in Rock Hill. He cut his teeth as a newspaper reporter and editor in New Jersey before finding a home in public radio in Texas. Scott joined SC Public Radio in March 2019. His work has appeared in numerous national and regional publications as well as on NPR and MSNBC. He's won numerous state, regional, and national awards for his work including a national Edward R. Murrow.
Stories
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The Complex Inequities of COVID-19 in South Carolina
April 27, 2020The exact numbers keep changing, but the percentages have remained relatively steady. And they show that African-Americans are South Carolina’s most disproportionately affected group when it comes to COVID-19 cases and deaths. But they also show that men and women overall... -
South Carolina Prisons Are (So Far) Among the Least Affected by COVID
April 24, 2020So far, South Carolina’s correctional system has managed to duck the high infection rates plaguing prisons in states like Ohio and Mississippi. According to Bryan Stirling, director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, 35 of the department's nearly 5,000 staff... -
Attention Shoppers: There Is Still Plenty of Food in South Carolina
April 22, 2020Word that a Smithfield pork processing plant in South Dakota, where 5 percent of the nation's pork is processed, sent ripples across the U.S. food industry. It didn't help that just a few days later, another Smithfield plant – this one much closer to home, in Tar Heel, North... -
She Survived SARS, H1N1, and Science Class - but COVID-19 Canceled Her Commencement
April 17, 2020Steffi Kong grew up in Singapore. At the onset of the century, the country was in the path of the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, a coronavirus similar to COVID-19. Kong contracted SARS, and beat it, but "because of that, my immune system was very... -
Tornadoes Take Lives from the Lowcountry to the Upstate
April 13, 2020It's being called the most significant severe weather outbreak in South Carolina in 12 years and already it's claimed nine lives. "This is a very rare situation that I've only faced working in different parts of the country several times in my career," said Richard Okulski... -
You're Not Under House Arrest, South Carolina
April 09, 2020Those aren't jail bars on your porch, friends. You can still go out front, as long as you're not congregating in public. Credit South Carolina Public Radio Some South Carolinians, it seems, are not entirely sure what Gov. Henry McMaster's "work-or-home" order fully means. It...