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 ConnectState Representative Angie Nixon joined us to discuss her thoughts about how the Orange Crush Festival was handled other issues related to recent policy… -
This week, U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, D-St. Petersburg, announced he’s running for governor in 2022.Crist has had a long career in Florida politics, serving… -
First Coast ConnectOn this week’s Friday Media Roundtable, we discussed some of the top stories in Northeast Florida, including:Former Rep. Corrine Brown’s conviction has… -
First Coast ConnectSome Florida officials are voicing their outrage over Gov. Ron DeSantis' suspension of all local COVID-19 emergency orders. The Republican governor issued… -
First Coast ConnectThere’s been a lot of discussion lately about the Jobs for Jax transportation plan, which would raise the gas tax by 6 cents a gallon to pay for… -
The U.S. Census Bureau announced the initial results of the nationwide 2020 population count this week. The results show Florida’s population has grown… -
On today’s program, we took a closer look at the continued controversy around Florida’s “anti-riot bill” or HB-1, which Governor DeSantis signed into law… -
Live music is returning to the Daily’s Place stage Friday night.Chart-topping artist Machine Gun Kelly will play before a sold-out crowd of roughly 5,500… -
On Friday’s program we took a closer look at YouTube's decison to take down a video of Gov. Ron DeSantis and controversial health policy experts. YouTube… -
On Friday’s program we took a closer look at the 60 Minutes piece on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ vaccine rollout and his reaction to it with Marc Caputo of…
