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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Fairfield County School District might just have the answer to workforce housing
August 03, 2023Veronica Thomas commutes to work. She doesn’t particularly like doing so. Every day, she makes the half-hour– “on a good day” – drive from Columbia to her classroom in Winnsboro, SC. She likes Winnsboro. She does. She teaches adult education at the Fairfield County School... -
A pair of retirees weigh in on social isolation among South Carolina seniors
June 20, 2023Ginny Cartee used to have a couple hundred people (kids included) wherever she needed them to be. “I was literally in a position where I could un unload 500 kids from a bus, with teachers on every bus, and not even say a word,” Cartee says. “Just point where I want them to... -
Oconee County Sheriff's Office rolls out livestreaming 9-1-1 program
May 24, 2023You’re bobbing along jauntily through the woods – blue skies above; the sun on your arms; strength in your stride and hope in your squeaky-clean eyes. All around you, things a green and rocky and mountainous. So … is that the trail leading back to the car? Or is it that one... -
Online portals and AI background checks: How tech affects South Carolina renters
May 05, 2023In the Analog Age, getting an apartment was all about paper. You’d find an available apartment in a newspaper ad, you’d fill out a paper application to rent the place, and you’d put a paper check in a paper envelope and either mail it to a landlord with a desk that was... -
InDebted Solutions: Resources for South Carolina
April 19, 2023Two things shocked me when I began reporting for the InDebted project in 2021: Everyone has debt and yet everyone feels isolated by it; and There are boundless resources in South Carolina that can help get a lot of people out of bad debt, but people do not know about them... -
InDebted: How RIP Medical Debt bailed a Spartanburg woman out of hospital debt
April 17, 2023Terri Logan wasn’t opening her mail. She wasn’t in a good place in life – recently separated from her husband, mired in bills, depressed, and, critically, unable to get out from under $1.400 in hospital bills that she incurred after her daughter was born prematurely. But the...