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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Students were evacuated from the Bellefonte Area High School and other schools across the state Wednesday morning, after police received threatening phone calls, which police are saying are not credible. -
Fred Jr. and Lee Metzger told WPSU about their unconventional childhood in a church in Baileyville for a digital story. -
Last year, Bellefonte and Kane, Pennsylvania, each hosted groups of remote workers for a few weeks through a program called “The Wilds are Working: A Remote Lifestyle Experience.” -
Last June, the tiny borough of Tioga, Pennsylvania, hired the police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Spotlight PA reporter Min Xian and did a deep dive story on how Timothy Loehmann got hired and the fallout from it. -
Colleges across Penn State have now received their final budgets for 2024 and 2025 created using the university’s new budget allocation model. -
The Altoona Area School District board of directors approved AR-15 semi-automatic patrol rifles for “carry, deployment and use” by school resource officers at Tuesday night’s meeting. -
The State College Area School District board of directors is putting out a call to fill the position vacated by Amber Concepcion. -
On the final episode of Health Minute, we look back at three years of the series. -
WPSU's Health Minute looks at New Year's resolutions and how to keep them.
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WPSU's Health Minute looks at the issue of frostbite and how to prevent it.
