Lily Belcher
WUSF Rush Family Radio News internAt 16 years old, I was walking into businesses and getting interviews. My dad was still driving me places, my phone cover was pink and sparkly and I had entirely no idea what I was doing, but it was something that came naturally to me.
I fell in love with talking to people and hearing their stories. Turning those conversations into words was an easy way to turn my love of storytelling into a career.
I am double majoring in mass communications and professional and technical communications at the University of South Florida.
I was also the managing editor for The Oracle, the university’s student newspaper on the Tampa campus.
As a WUSF intern, I reported on community stories in the Tampa Bay region and am now helping produce segments for Florida Matters Live and Local.
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Jennifer Collins espera que su escala salve vidas al motivar a la gente a evacuar antes de las tormentas peligrosas. -
Jennifer Collins hopes her scale will save lives by encouraging people to evacuate ahead of dangerous storms. -
The series will be based on "A Land Remembered," a novel that chronicles part of Florida's history. -
“Blankets” by Craig Thompson and “Identical” by Ellen Hopkins were pulled from shelves In Hillsborough County schools. That makes 57, with more than 500 awaiting review. -
Authorities reported there was no threat to the USF Tampa campus, with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office referring to it as a "swatting call" — the latest in a series of fake school shootings reported nationwide. -
The public housing complex will be razed next month, and the mixed-use apartments replacing it will include a genealogy center and memorial to Tampa's oldest African American burial ground. -
President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill has tax breaks that should help small businesses come tax season, but businesses are still facing rising prices and tariffs. And they're having to pay those increases now. -
The city had asked for five of its street murals to be exempt from a statewide ban on street art, saying they create a sense of place. -
The project is one stage in a long-term goal to connect downtown St. Petersburg to the new express lanes on the Howard Frankland Bridge. -
A group of labs and their instructors practiced going through security and boarding a plane through a partnership with Dogs Inc., the airport and Allegiant.
