Thelisha Eaddy
Thelisha Eaddy is the local Morning Edition host for SC Public Radio. Eaddy joined SC Public Radio’s team of reporters in 2015 to cover the long-term recovery of the historic flood in Columbia. Since that time, she has continued covering top news stories for the network. In addition to her on-air reporting, Eaddy can be seen on other South Carolina ETV programming, reporting live coverage of elections and providing analysis during Governor Inaugurations, moderating debates, and hosting the program Palmetto Perspectives. In 2019, Eaddy also produced The Road We Trod, a one-hour special on South Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their impact on history and the economy.
A native of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Eaddy’s first broadcast job was in her hometown of Saint Stephen. She studied at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and learned valuable behind-the-scenes radio and TV broadcasting skills at Trident Technical College in Charleston.
Eaddy is an award-winning, multimedia journalist, receiving the 2009 South Carolina Broadcasters Association Radio Reporter of the Year award and several Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas awards for her reporting.
Eaddy hosts Morning Edition locally for SC Public Radio and can be heard each Monday through Friday from 6 - 9 a.m. Eaddy’s morning news can also be heard on the SC Public Radio website, Facebook and X page.
Stories
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Kids Count Report Indicates Progress in Child Well-being Could be Hampered By Pandemic
June 25, 2021In 2019 the Annie E. Casey Foundation reported 20 percent of children in South Carolina were living in poverty. Each year the nonprofit releases its Kids Count Data Book, a 50-state report that tracks the well-being of children in the US. That 20 percent was slightly above... -
Law Enforcement, CWP Holders Learn SC’s New Open Carry Law, But Concerns About Safety, Civil Right
June 10, 2021Not long after Governor Henry McMaster signed the Open Carry with Training Act into law, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department distributed a memorandum to its deputies, explaining when the law goes into effect and what’s required of those carrying a handgun in public... -
Female Soldiers Share Their Stories for Women’s History Month
March 30, 2021In 1917, Loretta Walsh became the first American woman to officially enlist in the military. It would be a little over three decades later before the United States would permit women to serve as full members of the U.S. armed forces; this was accomplished through the Women’s... -
Could the Key to National Unity Lie Within the Verses of a Song?
February 22, 2021LISTEN: The song "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is considered the Black national anthem. It's lyrics remind of generational struggles, but also a legacy of faith and resilience. Congress James Clyburn recently introduced legislation to make the song a national hymn. He hopes... -
Women Won the Right to Vote a Century Ago; This Organization Works to Protect That Right
September 22, 2020In February of 1920, just six months before the 19th amendment was ratified, the League of Women Voters was founded by Suffragists of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Chicago, Illinios. The nonpartisan organization has been referred to as a "mighty... -
Army Identifies Soldier Found Dead at Fort Jackson
September 14, 2020Sunday, Army officials identified the basic combat training soldier who was found dead in his barracks at Fort Jackson on September 12. 29-year old Pvt. Michael Wise from Wisconsin was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment. Saturday, officials announced a 48...