Benjamin is the Savannah-based reporter for GPB, where he covers Coastal Georgia.
Prior to coming to Savannah, he freelanced in Bellingham, Washington, for public media outlets including NPR, Marketplace, and PRX. Previously, Benjamin hosted Morning Edition for WVIK, his hometown NPR member station in Rock Island, Ill. Before that, he served a news internship with NPR member station WBEZ in Chicago.
Benjamin is a graduate of the University of Nevada-Reno's journalism master's program, and earned his undergraduate degree in journalism from Augustana College in Rock Island.
African American maritime history has long gone understudied, says a Georgia Southern history professor. A new research project is meant to help change that.
The Liberty County Sheriff's Office is conducting an internal investigation of a traffic stop involving the Delaware State University women's lacrosse team, after its players and head coach at the historically Black university accused sheriff's deputies of racial profiling to conduct a drug search.
The surveillance technology received strong support from City Council members. But critics say that there's a lack of evidence to support ShotSpotter's claims of effectiveness.
