Emily Reddy
News DirectorEmily Reddy is the news director at WPSU-FM, the NPR-affiliate public radio station for central and northern Pennsylvania.
In addition to leading the news staff, Reddy creates news stories and sometimes fills in as an on-air host.
Reddy’s work has been recognized with a regional Edward R. Murrow Award and multiple awards from the Public Media Journalists Association and the Pennsylvania Associated Press Media Editors.
She has taught a news writing and reporting class at Penn State.
Reddy originally got hooked on radio as a volunteer reporter and news anchor for WMNF, a community radio station in her hometown of Tampa, Florida. She then went to grad school to pursue this passion professionally.
While at Boston University, Reddy produced segments for the daily news magazine show Here & Now. She also served as a reporter in Washington D.C. for WAMU and as capitol correspondent for WNPR.
She earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.
She lives in Lemont in a 150-year-old former one-room schoolhouse with her husband Jonathan and her daughter Zoë.
Contact her at ereddy@psu.edu.
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Nearly half of the households in Centre County are still without power and State College Area School District and the Centre County Courthouse are closed after severe thunderstorms moved through the area Tuesday night. -
Voting is now open to choose a name for a baby stingray that will soon be a part of the Marine Life Center at Discovery Space in State College. -
Penn State will not pull back on research in the face of “staggering” uncertainty about federal funding, said Penn State’s senior vice president for research Andrew Read in a town hall Friday. -
Hundreds of people gathered in the snow early Saturday morning to watch the demolition of the press box at Penn State’s Beaver Stadium, a step in the university’s $700 million renovation project. -
Recent studies say gas stoves are polluting the air in our homes and could make us sick. Explore an alternative, induction cooking, at RE Farm Café in State College. -
WPSU is doing oral history interviews with Native Americans living in Central Pennsylvania. In this interview, WPSU’s Emily Reddy talked with John Sanchez, who's an emeritus Penn State professor and has lived in State College for 27 years. -
WPSU talked with Native Americans living in the State College area. Jacinta Garcia talked about how her grandfather was removed for his tribe as a baby because of U.S. policy. -
Centre County elections officials say they’re dealing with a software issue that’s forcing them to rescan about 13,000 mail-in ballots. -
WPSU-FM shares an excerpt of the WPSU television and digital series Keystone Stories' episode one about one man's goal to impact the community, one unique cookie at a time. -
PennDOT will start construction on the long-awaited $259 million high-speed interchange project between I-80 and I-99 near Bellefonte next Wednesday.
