Former Southeastern Channel news reporter-anchor Paul Rivera is currently a TV news reporter and weekend anchor for WIS-TV Ch. 10 (CBS) in Columbia, S.C. (DMA 74). As reporter he recently traveled to the Mexican border to report on the border crisis and cover Columbia mayor Steven Benjamin’s protest of the immigration policy. Rivera has been at WIS-TV for nearly two years after serving as anchor-reporter for KLTV Ch. 7 (NBC) in Tyler, TX. (DMA 114). There his stories included the April 29th Canton Tornadoes and the nationally-televised case of missing child Kayla Gomez Orozco. Rivera also traveled back to Louisiana to help fellow Raycom (now Gray TV) station WAFB-TV Ch. 9 (CBS) cover the historic Baton Rouge Flood of 2016 While at the Southeastern Channel as anchor-reporter for “Northshore News”, Rivera won multiple first-place regional awards for his news stories and anchoring given by the Society of Professional Journalists (Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee) and Southeast Journalism Conference (eight states in the southeast U.S.). In 2015 Rivera was named Louisiana’s “Student Broadcaster of the Year” given by the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters from all college television and radio students in the state. As a student Rivera also moderated the 2015 Louisiana Gubernatorial Forum co-produced by the Southeastern Channel and Louisiana Public Broadcasting. He graduated in May of 2015. Here is Rivera’s demo reel with some of his recent WIS-TV stories shown below:
‘Get out, get out’: Richland County residents describe fire that damaged 5 homes
‘These events are so commonplace’: Midlands officials urge ‘stop the bleed’ training for citizens
See an animal locked in a hot car? In SC, you can’t do much about it
No more plastic? Richland County Council moves closer to bag ban
Richland County beating back mosquitoes after West Nile is found
‘She’ll always live in our hearts,’ London Harrell’s immediate family speaks of change after her death