Venise L. Toussaint

SJGC Bldg. Room #3025

Tuesday • 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. or by appointment

RTV3320 TV News • Tue. Thu. — 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
RTV3681 Advanced TV News • Tue. Thu. — 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m

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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 several different cities and states across the country including local CBS & NBC affiliates in Las Vegas and multiple cities in Florida; News 12 Long Island and Time Warner Cable now Spectrum News in New York, and The Black News Channel, a national news network focusing on issues impacting Black and communities of color.

Venise 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.

Venise 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.

Venise 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.

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• Media
  
• Equity and Diversity in Newsrooms
  
• Innovation

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• Instructor • Present
  Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
• News Director, FAMU TV 20 • Present
  Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
  

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• RTV 3320 TV News
• RTV 3681 Advanced TV News
• RTV 2230 Multimedia Oral Engagement
• JOU 2100 Reporting & Writing I
• JOU 4342 Reporting & Writing III