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.
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Stories
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Shooting at Greenville middle school sends one student to the hospital; shooter in custody
March 31, 2022Around 1230 in the afternoon, Tanglewood Middle School’s resource officer called in a report of a gunshot near the front of the building. Around 200 officers from city, county, state, and federal departments responded. By the time officers found the shooter – a male teenager... -
State Court Administration faces legal challenge to data scraping ban
March 30, 2022A group of civil liberties organizations filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the state Court Administration’s ban on “scraping,” the process of automatically collecting publicly available data online. Scraping is legal, and often used by researchers and journalists looking... -
SC program aims to help homeowners set back by the pandemic
March 28, 2022The SC Housing and Finance authority is launching its SC Homeowner Rescue Program (HRP) – a $145 million assistance program funded through the U.S. Treasury – over the next few weeks. Its aim: to provide the same kind of assistance to homeowners that the agency’s SC Stay... -
Upstate cities ponder the fate of short-term rentals
March 17, 2022Spartanburg City’s zoning ordinance, written in 1999, does not address short-term rentals – rentals offered through Airbnb and other companies that allow guests to rent out non-hotel residences for anything from a few days to several weeks. That is to say, the city’s zoning... -
Rock Hill responds to Panthers site issue
March 15, 2022The Rock Hill City Council met Monday for the first time since work at the near-billion-dollar Carolina Panthers site paused last week. Team owner David Tepper stopped work at the site amid claims that the city failed to issue close to $225 million in bonds that would help... -
Upstate church is funding members who, right now, are driving supplies into and war refugees out of
March 11, 2022Summer of God Slavic Evangelical Church in Anderson, is on the ground in Kharkiv. Through its Ukraine Relief Project, the church is funding food, medical supplies, fuel, and drivers on the streets of Ukraine. Eight church members are driving refugees away from war to safer...