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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What's Health Got to Do with It?Medical roundtable: Flu hospitalizations; RSV; daylight savings -
First Coast ConnectConfederate monuments; JaxTHRIVE; Giving Tuesday; Paula Poundstone -
First Coast ConnectHomeless at the Beaches; 'ART IS LIFE'; algae blooms; holiday food safety -
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First Coast ConnectTropical Storm Nicole; key takeaways from midterms; Affordable Care Act; Believe in the Good campaign; Martin Coffee Co.’s Lab -
What's Health Got to Do with It?Health care on the road; 'Our Red Book' -
First Coast ConnectRecycling; voting challenges; 'Don't Blame it on ZEN' -
What's Health Got to Do with It?Medical Roundtable; Mütter Museum -
First Coast Connect'The U.S. and the Holocaust'; First Coast Success; Symphony in 60; 'Play All Night!' -
