Cyd Hoskinson
Reporter / Host, "All Things Considered"Cyd Hoskinson began working at WJCT on Valentine’s Day 2011.
Among her many accomplishments, she hosted and produced a children’s radio show called "Balloons"; covered the Ted Bundy trial and, later, the Atlanta child murder trials; co-wrote, researched and produced "Flyers of Fortune," a radio documentary about an American pilot, who fought in the Spanish Civil War; co-produced a storytelling festival Telling Tales, at the Carter Center in Atlanta; interviewed former President Jimmy Carter, Coretta Scott King, Hosea Williams, Andrew Young, newspaper columnist Sydney J. Harris, Joan Fontaine and celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse.
Cyd is also a big fan of modern audio drama and, before coming to Jacksonville, she served on the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company’s Board of Directors.
She has a degree in elementary education from Florida State University — everything else she’s picked up along the way.
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Andrew Jackson High School’s Flying Lady Tigers drill team is among a select group of performers taking part in Wednesday’s Presidential Inaugural Parade.… -
The Duval County Public Schools system wants to know what it can do better when it comes to school buses.The district is conducting a short online survey… -
A live oak tree that stood for two decades behind St. Augustine’s Lightner Museum now graces a small hill in Robert Hayling Freedom Park on Riberia… -
St. Johns County has another 500 doses of the coronavirus vaccine it plans to administer this Friday.The shots will be given by appointment only, with the… -
Farm Share plans to host two food distribution events in the Jacksonville area this week.The first is Tuesday, Jan. 12, at the American Legion Post on… -
St. Johns County has run out of COVID-19 vaccine doses and officials don’t expect another shipment for at least a week.The county will provide another… -
Three Northeast Florida cities and two nonprofit groups will receive nearly $2 million from the state to help protect the region from damage caused by… -
St. Johns County residents can begin making coronavirus vaccination appointments later this week.The county said it received a second allotment of 800… -
Five more people are confirmed to have died from coronavirus in Duval County since Tuesday, and the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Duval jumped… -
With the Winter Solstice on Monday comes what astronomers are calling the Great Conjunction.That night, which is, coincidentally, the longest night of the…
