Bio

Amanda DeVoe is a professional journalist and communicator. She has spent the last five years in the television business honing her craft and giving a voice to the voiceless.

Amanda had a passion for writing at an early age. She started her school newspaper in the 5th grade and wrote most of the articles. However, it wasn’t until a reporter from a local television station visited her English class during her junior year of high school that she decided that a career in television news was her calling.

She started her journalism career as a news intern at NBC News Channel in Charlotte, North Carolina. While there, she wrote and produced stories for the national desk that were broadcast on stations across the country. She also interned at the ABC affiliate in Charlotte.

The CBS affiliate in Rockford, Illinois is where Amanda cut her teeth as a television news reporter. She covered topics ranging from crime to politics, but education was her beat. One of her most memorable stories was of a social worker employed by the local school district who refused to render services to a child that resided in public housing. After the story aired, the mother was assigned a new social worker. Amanda also produced and anchored the weekend evening newscasts.

Amanda’s next career move would be at the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she worked as both a dayside and nightside reporter for two years. As a reporter and multimedia journalist, she wrote, shot and edited many of her own stories. Her warm personality helped resonate with viewers and interview subjects, which showed through her storytelling. She thrived off of delivering active live shots to help engage the viewer.

She also worked as a Traffic Anchor and Reporter for the CBS affiliate in Mobile, Alabama, where she was nominated for an Emmy for her series, “Driven,” which focused on stories surrounding marginalized communities.

Amanda is currently a morning anchor and reporter at WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida, where she won an Emmy for her series, “The Ripple Effect” that focused on swimming and drowning rates in the Black community.

Amanda received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies with a minor in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her Master of Arts degree in Journalism from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She also completed coursework at Fayetteville State University, a historically black college in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Amanda is from the Washington, D.C. area, but also spent some of her upbringing in the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina area. In her spare time, Amanda loves giving back to her community by feeding the homeless and serving as a mentor to young girls an aspiring journalists.