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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On Huckleberry Creek, a dream home becomes a flood buyout
October 08, 2024It’s hard not to notice the bittersweet wistfulness in a name like Huckleberry Creek; how much it sounds like the echo of a time and place that probably never actually existed, but feels like it should. Or could. -
Number of Helene-related deaths in SC climbs to 48; power slowly returns to Upstate
October 07, 2024By Monday morning, the number of deaths attributed to Tropical Storm Helene in South Carolina reached 48. Hardest hit to date are Aiken, Spartanburg, and Greenville counties, which have officially announced 10, nine, and seven deaths, respectively. -
In Helene-devastated Easley, neighbors helping neighbors is the road to recovery
October 03, 2024Scott Morgan visited Easley, in Pickens County, Wednesday. He found neighbors helping neighbors locally and as far as Buncombe County, North Carolina — which was even more crippled by the storm. -
A Greenwood County man survived a 200-year-old oak that Helene sent crashing through his house
October 01, 2024State Rep. John McCravy, R-Greenwood, was explaining how Greenwood County is slowly, inch by inch, putting itself back together following Tropical Storm Helene. Greenwood was in the path of Helene’s eye when it hit South Carolina last Thursday, and the damage has been... -
The small city of Landrum is a microcosm for Helene's wake in South Carolina
September 29, 2024On Sunday morning, if you shut your eyes, downton Landrum would sound as normal as any September Sunday morning in this little city Upstate. You can hear the traffic going up and down East Rutherford Street, the city’s main business avenue; you can hear leaf blowers and... -
Residents in Upstate, Midlands still without power following Helene
September 29, 2024Hundreds of thousands of residents in the Upstate and Midlands were still without power when the sun came up Sunday morning, with some counties almost entirely without power. According to the U.S. Power Outage Map, 99% of Greenwood County was still without power at sunrise...