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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The Palmer Museum of Art will open June 1, 2024. The 73,000-square-foot building doubles the exhibit space of the old museum. -
The Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority says it took in nearly 48,000 pounds of household hazardous waste at its collection event over the weekend. -
The State College Borough is once again allowing residents to take part in No Mow May this year. -
The Blair County Prison inmate who escaped in December has been captured. A Fugitive Task Force arrested Isaiah Tilghman at a Planet Fitness in Philadelphia on Friday. -
WPSU takes a looks at a sampling of election results across central PA, including county commissioner, school board and others. -
Roadwork will begin Monday on parts of Interstate 99 through Centre County. -
Penn State College of Comm professor Matt Jordan talks about the Centre Daily Times, and other newspapers', switch to sending out papers by mail. -
Special Olympics Pennsylvania (SOPA) has canceled its 2023 Summer Games, which were supposed to run Thursday through Saturday in the State College area, due to air quality concerns caused by Canadian wildfires. -
Voters from Centre County Precinct 66 talked about the importance of voting outside the Park Forest Village United Methodist Church. -
WPSU's 2023 Student Poetry Writing Contest winners Allison Caron, Poppy Goble, Eveline Overdurf and Aurea Slimak read their poems to celebrate April's National Poetry Month.
