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Anchor, reporter and University of Georgia alumna Sydney Shadrix will deliver the keynote address to high school journalists and teachers at the Georgia Scholastic Press Association’s Spring Workshop and Awards Monday, March 27, 2023, at UGA’s Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Shadrix is currently an anchor and reporter at WYFF News 4 in Greenville, South Carolina. Prior to that role, she spent three years as an anchor and producer at KLTV 7 in Tyler, Texas. While there, Shadrix covered the Texas power outage in February 2021 that left millions of people without electricity for days. Additionally, she tracked the Covid-19 pandemic in East Texas and wrote about how the virus affected classrooms and schools all over the state. Before becoming a journalist, Shadrix received a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Shadrix is a licensed Music and English teacher and the latter drove her to pursue journalism. She spent three years instructing music to middle and high school students in Nashville. In 2017, Shadrix pursued a Master of Arts in Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism. She served as GSPA’s graduate assistant and also as a graduate assistant for the travel writing study abroad program in Munich, Germany.
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