Heather Schatz
Senior Producer, Talk ShowsHeather is the senior producer of WJCT 89.9 FM talk shows including First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross, the Florida Roundup and What's Health Got to Do with It?
Heather spent close to 10 years at CBS News in New York City, where she worked for CBS Network Radio, CBS This Morning and The Early Show, producing news and feature stories for television and radio. While there, she was nominated for a national Emmy Award for a feature series and received National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Certificates of Recognition for the reporting of the September 11 events and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Since returning to Florida in 2007, Heather has worked as the communications director for Best Buddies International and the National YoungArts Foundation and as a communications consultant for a number of businesses.
She is also a long-standing member of the Writer’s Guild of America, East, and contributes to Edible Northeast Florida magazine. Heather has a master's degree in journalism and mass communications from New York University and a bachelor's degree in public policy from Cornell University.
Heather lives at the Beaches with her husband and two children.
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First Coast ConnectThe coronavirus crisis has hit the restaurant business particularly hard. They have been closed to dining for weeks now, and as such, have had to shift to… -
The coronavirus pandemic has put a number of local projects on hold, including in the art world.That’s been the case for Jacksonville-based artist Elena… -
First Coast ConnectOn Monday, Mayor Curry encouraged businesses in Duval County to begin planning for how they will operate when the local economy opens back up. He didn’t… -
First Coast ConnectOn Monday's program we looked at how homeschooling - which will continue for the remainder of the school year - has been going. Emily Bloch has been… -
First Coast ConnectJacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry says it’s time to take incremental steps to partially reopen the city’s economy. He’s assembled a group of local civic… -
As the COVID-19 shutdown continues, restaurants have had to adapt to keep their business running.One of the ways some eateries have pivoted , especially… -
First Coast ConnectOn Saturday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said his administration would release the names of the state’s long-term care facilities that have active COVID… -
Three people who work at postal facilities in the Jacksonville area have tested positive for coronavirus, a United States Postal Service (USPS) spokesman… -
The food and beverage industry has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus crisis, with restaurants shifting to takeout and delivery orders to try… -
A Florida girl recently got a huge surprise for her 9th birthday. Nine-year-old Aubrey Bauman of Winter Haven had tickets to see Hamilton here in…
