Rhema Thompson
Reporter/ProducerRhema Thompson began her post at WJCT on a very cold day in January 2014 and left WJCT to join the team at The Florida Times Union in December 2014.
She has been in the news industry for more than six years, working in both broadcast and print. She received her master's degree in broadcast from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Connecticut and is a Husky for life.
Before joining the WJCT team, she served as education reporter for the Pensacola News Journal. Over the course of her career, she has produced for CBS News and covered crime, courts, arts and entertainment for several publications including The Newport Daily News, The Hartford Courant and The New York Daily News.
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Courtney Lewis got an early birthday present on Wednesday as he was named Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra's new conductor and music director.The… -
Officials celebrated the son of Broderick Brown and Angela Criswell in a way they will never forget, but it was also an honor they never wanted. "Really… -
The first batch of FCAT scores for this year shows that just over half of Duval County Public School third-graders are reading at or above grade-level.The… -
On a recent morning, Jonel Edwards spoke with a group of Jacksonville youth. Behind her, a giant screen flashed pictures of young brown faces.“So how many… -
Jacksonville officials have given the green light on long-delayed plans to reconstruct the city's Southbank Riverwalk. The city’s public works department… -
Attorneys for Marissa Alexander will have to wait a little longer to argue Stand Your Ground in her upcoming case.Circuit Judge James Daniel had planned… -
Just a stone’s throw from the planned site of the new set of apartments for the homeless, dozens of residents voiced their thoughts Thursday night.“We… -
Some tweaks made by Duval County Schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti and school board members to the much-protested school budget plan may make it a bit… -
Lorlesha Bryant loves a challenge. That’s what got the Algebra I teacher into mathematics.“I love to figure out the unknown and with algebra,” she said,… -
Jacksonville officials say they’ve been successful in creating higher quality standards for the city’s afterschool programs, but there’s much more work to…