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 ConnectJacksonville’s Charter Revision Commission will hold a public town hall at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, October 17, to ask what changes residents want in their… -
First Coast ConnectPlans are in the works to bring a new spaceport to Camden County, Georgia.Supporters of the proposed port include everyone from Georgia Governor Brian… -
The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens' newest exhibit, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, opens to the public this Friday, Oct.… -
First Coast ConnectCity Councilman Matt Carlucci joined us to discuss new legislation to replenish a trust fund for historic preservation, as well as several other local… -
First Coast ConnectThere is a lot of attention focused on Downtown Jacksonville these days. Between the new Ford on Bay, First Baptist Church’s decision to put about 90% of… -
Amendment 4 restored voting rights to more than a million Florida residents with a felony conviction.However, a new law requires them to pay off back… -
First Coast ConnectJEA, Jacksonville's publicly-owned utility, announced Monday it has received bids from 16 private companies. Next it will evaluate the bids as the utility… -
First Coast ConnectA push is underway in Duval County that organizers claim would improve the election process and voter turnout for Jacksonville's municipal elections.It’s… -
This week we took a closer look at what President Donald Trump wants to do with Medicare, and how it could affect the millions of Floridians who count on… -
First Coast ConnectMapping Jax, a new local movement sparked by a rush of downtown demolitions, is asking the city to think more creatively about how we build the urban…