SHAYLA REAVES is an Emmy Award winning television news journalist with more than ten years experience in broadcasting. She connects with viewers.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
A 2006 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Shayla was named the top broadcast student in her graduating class. She received the university's prestigious Gary Cummings Memorial Award, a selection made by faculty members and awarded to seniors who excelled in undergraduate broadcast journalism courses. While attending Northwestern, Shayla led the university's student chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists to its first-ever national "Student Chapter of the Year" title in 2005 .
She completed television internships in Quincy, Illinois, Jackson, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky, landing her first television job at WAVE 3 News. Shayla previously interned with the Kentucky station through NABJ's Summer Internship program and accepted a position as reporter/producer/special projects assistant upon graduation. She produced the station's 7 p.m. newscast twice a week, assisted the Troubleshooter division and reported for weekend newscasts. She advanced to full-time reporting within eight months of hire and remained with the company for four years.
The experience helped land Shayla a position with WBNS 10 TV, where she worked as a general assignment reporter for three years and fill-in anchored for the Columbus, Ohio station's cable television affiliate Ohio News Network (ONN). She progressed to the WBNS morning show ranked #1 in the market, earning an Emmy award for breaking news.
The work prepared Shayla for a reporting position with WTVT Fox 13 in Tampa, Florida. Within months of hire, she began reporting for the market's six-hour #1 rated morning show Fox 13's Good Day Tampa Bay. Her duties have included breaking news coverage, general assignment reporting, weather coverage and fill-in anchoring for Good Day Tampa Bay and Fox 13 News at Noon. Her live field reports have appeared nationally on Fox and Friends and America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer. She has also participated in live talk back interviews with Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace and Anchor Shannon Bream.
SOCIAL MEDIA
She remains active on social media, followed by more than 10,000 people on her Fox 13's Shayla Reaves Facebook page and more than 7,000 Twitter users.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
A 2006 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Shayla was named the top broadcast student in her graduating class. She received the university's prestigious Gary Cummings Memorial Award, a selection made by faculty members and awarded to seniors who excelled in undergraduate broadcast journalism courses. While attending Northwestern, Shayla led the university's student chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists to its first-ever national "Student Chapter of the Year" title in 2005 .
She completed television internships in Quincy, Illinois, Jackson, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky, landing her first television job at WAVE 3 News. Shayla previously interned with the Kentucky station through NABJ's Summer Internship program and accepted a position as reporter/producer/special projects assistant upon graduation. She produced the station's 7 p.m. newscast twice a week, assisted the Troubleshooter division and reported for weekend newscasts. She advanced to full-time reporting within eight months of hire and remained with the company for four years.
The experience helped land Shayla a position with WBNS 10 TV, where she worked as a general assignment reporter for three years and fill-in anchored for the Columbus, Ohio station's cable television affiliate Ohio News Network (ONN). She progressed to the WBNS morning show ranked #1 in the market, earning an Emmy award for breaking news.
The work prepared Shayla for a reporting position with WTVT Fox 13 in Tampa, Florida. Within months of hire, she began reporting for the market's six-hour #1 rated morning show Fox 13's Good Day Tampa Bay. Her duties have included breaking news coverage, general assignment reporting, weather coverage and fill-in anchoring for Good Day Tampa Bay and Fox 13 News at Noon. Her live field reports have appeared nationally on Fox and Friends and America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer. She has also participated in live talk back interviews with Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace and Anchor Shannon Bream.
SOCIAL MEDIA
She remains active on social media, followed by more than 10,000 people on her Fox 13's Shayla Reaves Facebook page and more than 7,000 Twitter users.