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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An administrative judge has postponed the final hearing to determine the fate of Scholar Preparatory Academy. The hearing to appeal district plans to… -
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has identified the man shot and killed by an officer during a traffic stop as 33-year-old Leonardo Marquette… -
Members of the Jacksonville Progressive Coalition were gathered in downtown Hemming Plaza when news of the Ferguson grand jury verdict broke.A grand jury… -
The Jacksonville mother once sentenced to 20 years for shooting into a wall will now serve 65 days in county jail and two years under house arrest under a… -
An extra $18 million in Duval Schools capital funding could go toward saving one of the district's flagship initiatives and propelling several dozen other… -
A financial literacy lesson like the one in Eric Fields’ Economics class probably would’ve saved most of us in the working world today a lot of… -
Nearly half of all rising sixth and ninth graders in Duval County Public Schools are not attending their neighborhood school, and a sizable portion are… -
In recent years, Holiday Hill Elementary has had its share of rough patches, from principal shakeups to highly publicized pushback over a district-imposed… -
A new hunger-fighting initiative is about to take off. Food distribution nonprofit Feeding Northeast Florida will kick off its first annual 500-thousand… -
Before his arrest, the former Baker County High School teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student was warned by his co-workers to “Leave…
