Shaquira Speaks

• Serve as the primary reporter covering four counties in Upstate South Carolina, delivering timely, impactful coverage of general assignment news, including politics, health care, sports, and breaking news.
• Identify emerging local issues and develop compelling story ideas based on current events, community needs, and regional developments.
• Collaborate with newsroom leadership to determine coverage priorities across multiple newscasts.
• Research, report, write, shoot, and edit news packages and other broadcast content for daily newscasts, often working independently from story conception through final production.

• Adapt coverage to meet evolving newsroom deadlines while producing accurate, engaging stories that inform audiences across the station’s viewing area.

• Directed digital content updates across station website and social media platforms. Coordinated timely publication of news stories and videos. Covered fill-in weathercaster duties for evening and weekend newscasts.
• Delivered breaking news coverage through live reporting, field interviews, and deadline-driven story development.
• Produced and solo-anchored weekend evening newscasts to support timely dissemination of breaking news while serving as general assignment reporter across the tri-city area of West Georgia and East Alabama.
• Local sports coverage was strengthened through researched, shot, and edited news stories. Athlete profiles across Chattahoochee Valley were expanded through more than 15 feature stories and participation in sponsored segments, including “College Football Pick ’Em.” Audience engagement increased through creation and executive production of “Hear Me Out” podcast with the sports department and in-depth athlete interviews.

• Graduate of Grady College of Journalism
• Sports Media Certificate