Kelly Harvey
Kelly Harvey is a working journalist with more than
10 years of experience in broadcast journalism. She
joined the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications
in Fall 2003 as a part-time faculty member teaching
broadcast journalism and broadcast announcing courses.
Harvey is a graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta
with a B.S. in English and the University of Maryland,
College Park with an M.A. in Broadcast Journalism. As
a graduate student, Harvey taught radio in the School
of Journalism at UMCP.
She started her career at HU as a jazz DJ on WHOV-FM.
During her matriculation at Spelman, she worked in the
news department at WCLK-FM in Atlanta, Ga. While in
graduate school, Harvey interned and eventually landed
a job with WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Md. as a writer and
a desk assistant. Her first job in front of the camera
took her to Zanesville, Ohio in 1995 where she was the
Morning and Noon anchor for WHIZ-TV (NBC). After a year,
she moved to Tallahassee, Fla. to work for the ABC affiliate,
WTXL-TV. There, she was the weekend anchor and general
assignment reporter before being promoted to the weeknight
6 and 11 o'clock anchor position. In that position,
she was the station's first black woman in that time
slot. In 1999, Harvey moved back to her hometown to
take a position as the weekend anchor/reporter for WTKR-TV
in Norfolk, Va. She spent four years covering crime,
politics, education, government and the community as
the peninsula reporter while anchoring the 6 and 11
o'clock newscasts on the weekend. In 2003, Harvey left
WTKR for WVEC, the ABC affiliate in Norfolk, Va. She
juggled two jobs as a general assignment reporter, and,
as an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Hampton University.
Harvey maintained this schedule for a year before leaving
to teach full-time at HU. Professor Harvey has been
teaching broadcast journalism classes since the fall
of 2003. She continues to work in the Hampton Roads
market on the radio, filling in periodically for the
morning newscasts on WVKL, 95.7 R & B for the “Sonny
in the Morning” Show.
kelly.harvey@hamptonu.edu |
