Victoria Hansen
Victoria Hansen is our Lowcountry connection covering the Charleston community, a city she knows well. She grew up in newspaper newsrooms and has worked as a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years. Her first reporting job brought her to Charleston where she covered local and national stories like the Susan Smith murder trial and the arrival of the Citadel’s first female cadet.
An opportunity to anchor the news for an ABC affiliate took her to Nashville, Tennessee. But summer vacations were always spent in Charleston. She moved back in 2006 to the city she calls home to anchor and report again at the tv station where she began.
Victoria has volunteered and served as a spokesperson for numerous nonprofits. She has been honored with multiple Emmys as well as a Community Service Award from the South Carolina Broadcasters Association. It is her passion for community service that brings her to South Carolina Public Radio.
Stories
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'He's not a monster'- the team trying to save Richard Moore from execution
October 25, 2024Attorney Lindsey Vann walks down the hallway of her Columbia office surrounded by portraits of men who've been freed from prison. -
Charleston County prepares for election day like a hurricane
October 18, 2024Just beyond the metal detectors and guards at Charleston County’s new board of elections headquarters in North Charleston, dozens of men and women pore over computer screens as part of a lesson on voting. -
We'd rather be working, say striking dockworkers in Charleston
October 03, 2024Dozens of dockworkers wave signs along Morrison Drive in Charleston as a strike affecting 36 ports nationwide stretches into a third day. The workers with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) say they’d much rather be unloading docks and getting paid than... -
Missing for nearly 50 years, Lowcountry woman identified as victim of prolific serial killer
October 03, 2024Berkeley County authorities say they’ve solved a nearly 50-year-old cold case after identifying a woman they believe died at the hands of a serial killer. In a press release Wednesday, detectives detailed their decades long investigation into the death of a “Jane Doe” who... -
'There was nothing unexpected about this,' says witness in Titan submersible investigation
September 24, 2024Looking back, Karl Stanley says he wouldn’t have gone on a test dive of an experimental submersible in the Bahamas in April of 2019. -
Mission specialist for Titan submersible tearfully recalls passengers on doomed dive
September 20, 2024North Charleston, S.C. - A mission specialist for the company that operated the ill-fated Titan submersible became emotional as she testified Thursday before Coast Guard investigators trying to determine the cause of last summer’s deadly implosion. Renata Rojas was perhaps...