Stacy Davis
Recent StoriesReporter
Professional Experience:
I joined WRAL-TV as a reporter in August 2008. Before that, I worked seven years as military reporter and weekend anchor at WTKR-TV in Norfolk, Va., home to the world’s largest U.S. Navy base. Just after Hurricane Floyd hit Eastern North Carolina, I joined WCTI-TV as the Carteret County Bureau Chief in Morehead City and reported there until just after the Sept. 11th attacks. Prior to that, I worked for two years as a reporter/photographer in the wilds of Montana for KCFW-TV in Kalispell. My first on-air TV job was a three-month college internship for KSNT-TV in Topeka, Kan. (never saw scarier skies in my life!).
Education:
I spent four years of intense training at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University along the shores of Lake Michigan, just north of Chicago. I earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and after graduation, spent a summer teaching journalism to high school students.
Awards & Recognition:
2007 FBI Citizens’ Academy Graduate; 2006 Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters Association Award for Continuing Coverage for a series on a Navy SEAL murder in Virginia Beach which included trial coverage and travel out of state for exclusive interview with family; 2006 Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters Association Award for In-Depth Reporting for series on aggression by North Korea, including travel to the Demilitarized Zone on the North Korean border; 2001 North Carolina Correctional Association Award for Outstanding Journalism for coverage of prison inmate community projects in Eastern North Carolina; 1999 Montana Associated Press Award for Best Enterprise Story on a haunted Kalispell home; 1997 Gary Cummings Award, given to the top graduating broadcast student at Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.
News Philosophy:
To work with a photojournalist weaving words, pictures and sound into accurate and compelling stories.
Birthplace:
Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, the first and oldest hospital in the country
Family:
Fiancé, Cory, a photojournalist. Mom, dad and two younger brothers, Chris and Adam, who live in Williamstown, N.J., where I grew up. They have an Airedale Terrier, Guy Fawkes, named for the Catholic revolutionary who tried to blow up the British Houses of Parliament!
Hobbies, Interests & Community Involvment:
Surfing, piano, Guitar Hero and movies
Favorite Books & Movies:
Spielberg’s "Empire of the Sun," a semi-autobiographical account of J.G. Ballard, a rich British kid (played by my teenage pin-up boy Christian Bale!) living in China during Japanese occupation, "Poltergeist" (There heeereee!!!), Chevy Chase in "Funny Farm" (Cue the deer!), and "Pee Wee Herman’s Big Adventure" (There’s no basement in the Alamo!).
I love Herman Melville’s short story "Bartleby the Scrivener." Right now, I’m reading Ayn Rand’s "Atlas Shrugged," but my all-time favorite book or movie - well, it’s actually not a book or a movie at all - it’s a radio show, "This American Life." Best storytelling ever! I download the free broadcasts to my iPod all the time.
Favorite Web Sites:
www.imdb.com - the ultimate movie database - check out the BMW Film Series called "The Hire" - all featuring great chase scenes and all featuring Clive Owen! And www.cancer.gov - the National Cancer Institute - in my second week of work at WRAL, my mom was diagnosed with uterine cancer - helpful site for patients and family.
Likes Best About North Carolina:
The picture of me at 16 months old in a little pink bathing suit, crouching down to pick up sea shells in Ocracoke. The countless family summer vacations to the Outer Banks, catching waves with my little brothers and surfing at the Hatteras Lighthouse. And the star-lit night on the beach in Frisco, when my fiancé kneeled down on one knee to propose to me.
Most Memorable Assignments:
Covering a wartime deployment, I catapulted off the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier. I jumped out of a plane from 11,000 feet with the Army's Golden Knights. I soared through the clouds with the Navy Blue Angels (and passed out three times from the G-forces!) I plunged into the ocean depths with sailors of the nuclear fast-attack submarine USS Montpelier. And I enjoyed 5 seconds of absolute horrible pain demonstrating the incapacitating power of a police department’s new taser guns.