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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World-renowned artist (and SC native) Shepard Fairey to craft Rock Hill's newest work on the 'Mural
October 14, 2021‘Latitude for interpretation is part of the beauty of public art ….” So begins a perspective on what art can say in an age when monolog, not dialog, seems so very much in charge. For Shepard Fairey, the guy who saying this to me over Zoom, art is the beginning of a... -
How the Pandemic Made Simulated Learning Indispensable for South Carolina's Nurses of Tomorrow
September 21, 2021At the University of South Carolina’s College of Nursing, hundreds of nurses-to-be are getting the chance to figure out the many and varied intricacies of their future jobs. It’s an environment that encourages mistakes on rather realistic mannequins and on real people posing... -
'If you trust us to take care of you, trust us to vaccinate you,' and Other Thoughts from Stressed,
September 17, 2021Dr. Paras Malhotra, a critical care physician at the Medical University of South Carolina’s Lancaster campus, closes our Zoom interview with this thought: “If you trust us to take care of you, trust us to vaccinate you.” It’s a message that’s equal parts plea for help, swirl... -
277,000 More Women Than Men Are Vaxed In South Carolina: How State Health Officials Are Approaching
September 15, 2021An awful lot of research and quite a few surveys show how much men hate going to the doctor. In very polite terms, Dr. Jane Kelly, South Carolina’s assistant state epidemiologist, says that men simply access healthcare far less frequently than women, “even when they have a... -
Monoclonal Antibody Therapy Is Keeping Some South Carolina ERs From Drowning In COVID Deaths
September 01, 2021Back in March, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) released a statement about how monoclonal antibody treatments could help reduce the number of people entering the hospital with COVID-19. Turns out, the department was right. As of this... -
South Carolina's Latest COVID Surge is Flooding Hospitals, Exhausting Medics, and Affecting Children
August 25, 2021Just a couple months ago, it looked like we were out of the COVID-19 woods, didn't it? People were traveling, the bottom halves of faces were brazenly getting some sunshine. And, as if the pandemic were somehow behind us, even certain public radio news agencies took a naive...