Joshua Stewart

Joshua Stewart

Host, Morning Edition

Department: Radio

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Twitter: @jstewnews

Joshua Stewart is the local host of Morning Edition on GPB Radio. He’s also hosted Weekend Edition and filled in on All Things Considered in addition to reporting news from around the state. He came to GPB in 2010 from Tampa, Fla., where he hosted All Things Considered and produced an award-winning local public affairs program called Florida Matters at WUSF Public Media. Joshua’s work has been recognized with two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and numerous Associated Press nods. He grew up along the World’s Most Famous Beach and lived throughout Florida before coming just a little north to Georgia. Joshua also reported and worked with college journalism students in Jacksonville.

Recent News Articles

GBI: Prescription Drug Overdose Deaths Rising
July 25, 2011 - 4:50am
More people are dying from prescription drug abuse in Georgia. An analysis of autopsy data by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation showed a 10 percent increase in the number of deaths where a...
Activists Re-enact Moore's Ford Lynching
July 23, 2011 - 8:48am
A group of volunteers is re-enacting an unsolved 1946 lynching Saturday afternoon. Four people and an unborn baby died at the lynching at Moore’s Ford Bridge on the Oconee-Walton county line in...
Congressman Wants FDIC Review
July 21, 2011 - 4:13pm
Georgia Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Grantville, wants the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to take a closer look at how it goes about closing banks. He authored a bill forcing the FDIC inspector...
White-Nose Syndrome Threatens Bats
July 14, 2011 - 4:56pm
A disease known as white-nose syndrome is killing thousands of bats every year in the northeast. And it’s spreading south. It hasn’t made it to Georgia yet, but wildlife officials are watching – and...
Nurseries, Garden Centers OK In Drought
July 14, 2011 - 3:41pm
Georgia’s last drought shut down half of the state’s nurseries and garden centers by some estimates. It was a double-whammy with the sour economy. The current drought, however, has not hit the...

Recent Blog Posts

WORKING: Use It Or Lose It
Working and Career - January 25, 2012 - 3:26pm
If you’re like lots of workers, you lost some vacation time at the end of the year. A Harris Interactive survey at the end of last year found many people forfeited some of their accumulated vacation...
WORKING: Just One More Thing...
Working and Career - January 18, 2012 - 2:50pm
A job interview is as much about you your potential new employer selling you on their organization as it is about you selling yourself to them. Our work and career guru Brandon Smith says there’s...
WORKING: The Performance Review
Working and Career - January 12, 2012 - 1:55pm
With the new year comes the annual gauntlet of performance reviews for many companies and employees. Many managers see them as one more task on a likely overloaded to-do list, and many employees...
WORKING: Where's Your Career Going?
Working and Career - January 4, 2012 - 2:19pm
It seems like a pretty easy question: What do you really like to do? But in the context of your job (and more broadly, your career), lots of us find it difficult to answer. Our career expert Brandon...
WORKING: Career Derailers
Working and Career - December 20, 2011 - 7:23am
As the year draws to a close, it’s time to think about those New Year’s resolutions. (OK, I admit, I haven’t figured any out yet, either.) Maybe there’s something in your working life that could use...

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