SJGC Bldg., Room #3025
Tuesday: 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. (Also by appointment.)
RTV3320, TV News: Tue. & Thu. — 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
RTV3681, Advanced TV News: Tue. & Thu. — 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Venise Toussaint is an Emmy-nominated and Associated Press award-winning journalist
with more than a decade of experience working in both local and national newsrooms.
She has worked as an anchor, show host, and reporter at stations in various cities and states across the country including local CBS & NBC affiliates in Las Vegas
and multiple cities in Florida. Her work has been seen on News 12 Long Island, Time Warner Cable News (now Spectrum News) in New York, and The Black News Channel, a national news network focusing on issues
impacting Black audiences and communities of color.
Toussaint is an expert storyteller, skilled in editorial direction, writing, reporting, anchoring,
and producing. She is the recipient of an Emmy nomination for News Excellence and
a first place Associated Press award winner for best cultural/historical feature.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from the prestigious S.I. Newhouse
School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and her master’s degree in
mass communication with a concentration in journalism education from Kent State University.
Toussaint currently teaches TV news and advanced TV news at Florida A&M University, where she also serves as news director for FAMU TV-20, an educational access channel reaching 80,000 homes across Florida’s Big Bend
and parts of South Georgia.