Cyd Hoskinson
Cyd Hoskinson, host of "All Things Considered," began working at WJCT on Valentine’s Day 2011. Among her many accomplishments, she hosted and produced a children’s radio show called "Balloons"; covered the Ted Bundy trial and, later, the Atlanta child murder trials; co-wrote, researched and produced "Flyers of Fortune," a radio documentary about an American pilot who fought in the Spanish Civil War; co-produced a storytelling festival Telling Tales, at the Carter Center in Atlanta; and interviewed former President Jimmy Carter, Coretta Scott King, Hosea Williams, Andrew Young, newspaper columnist Sydney J. Harris, Joan Fontaine and celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse. Cyd is also a big fan of modern audio drama and, before coming to Jacksonville, she served on the Atlanta Radio Theatre Co.’s board of directors. She has a degree in elementary education from Florida State University — everything else she’s picked up along the way.
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July 30, 2024

New hours in effect for military food assistance

Jacksonville’s Food Farmacy program will distribute free food to active-duty military on the second and fourth Thursday of every month.…

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May 8, 2023

USS Cooperstown headed for Naval Station Mayport

The Navy’s newest littoral combat ship was commissioned Saturday. It is named for Cooperstown, New York, home to the Major…

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April 10, 2023

Homeless count raises red flags; second census planned

Changing Homelessness plans a second count of unsheltered people in the summer after the first census raised some questions.…

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January 23, 2023

How many people are homeless on the First Coast? We’ll soon know.

Volunteers will scatter across Duval, Clay and Nassau counties Wednesday to complete the Point-in-Time Count of people living unsheltered on…

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December 23, 2022

Two more right whale calves discovered

The population of endangered North Atlantic right whales has grown by at least two. Wildlife researchers report seeing a 36-year…

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A crowd attends a 2021 Melanin Market on Jacksonville's Eastside.
November 23, 2022

The ‘Real Black Friday’: Jacksonville’s Melanin Market

There’s Black Friday — and then there’s the Real Black Friday.   That’s what organizers of Jacksonville’s Melanin Market are…

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November 23, 2022

With COVID waning, JTA ends free rides for health workers

Jacksonville health care workers who ride city buses for free will have to start paying for those trips next month.…

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November 2, 2022

Judy Coughlin, wife of former Jaguars head coach, dies of brain disease

Judy Coughlin, wife of former Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Tom Coughlin, died Wednesday of an incurable brain disease. Coughlin revealed…