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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All full-time Penn State faculty who become a parent to a new baby, adopt a child, or become the new legal guardian of a child will now be eligible for six weeks of paid parental leave. Penn State staff will be eligible for four weeks of paid parental leave after six-months of employment at the university instead of after a year. -
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Brad Groznik talks about the Rediscover State College marketing campaign. They talked with Penn State alums, State High graduates and others who've left State College about whether they might move back and about their perceptions of the State College area, good and bad. -
Dr. Carline Crevecoeur talks to Take Note about her memoir and about giving up her job as an OB/GYN to be a homeschooler when she felt like schools weren't challenging her five very bright kids. -
Asian American artist Amie Bantz talks about her "Lunchbox Moments" installation currently at the Penn State. -
The Bellefonte Area school board voted Tuesday night to return to the "Red Raiders" nickname and Native American chief logo, reversing the previous board’s decision to change the name to the “Raiders” and drop the controversial image of an American Indian wearing a feathered headdress. -
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Organizers of the Osaze Osagie College Scholarship are trying to reach a $100,000 goal this Giving Tuesday to endow a scholarship in the name of a State College man killed by police in 2019. -
On this episode of Take Note on WPSU, we talked with Geoff O'Gara, the director of the documentary "Home from School: The Children of Carlisle." It's about a boarding school for Native American children in Carlisle, Pennsylvania that ran from 1879 to 1918. -
The Centre Film Festival includes a screening Tuesday night of the documentary “Home from School: The Children of Carlisle.”
