Rod Carter
Rod Carter joined CBS 17 News as a weeknight evening anchor after spending about two decades at WFLA in Tampa, Florida. Rod is a proud graduate of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, with a Bachelor's of Science in Broadcast Journalism. In December 2024, he earned his Master of Arts in Journalism and Media Studies from the University of Alabama.
He is a proud Life Member of the FAMU National Alumni Association.
Rod was a Fall 2021 adjunct professor of communications at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh.
Rod was awarded the Kappa Tau Alpha (KTA) Hall of Fame Award from the University of South Florida, Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications.
Rod is on the Executive Board of the National Association of Black Journalists currently serving as secretary. He is also Chair o the NABJ 50th Anniversary Committee. Rod is past Region III Director for the National Association of Black Journalists, as well as a past president of the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists and past Vice President Broadcast of the Birmingham Association of Black Journalists. He’s currently Vice President Digital for the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the NABJ.
He coaches and guides upcoming journalists as a mentor.
For years he has been the lead teacher for the NABJ-FAMU Journalism Short Course, instructing students in broadcast during an intensive weekend course. And has for many years been a member of the Florida A&M University School of Journalism Board of Visitors.
Outside journalism, Rod is a proud Life Member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. He is currently the International Director of Publicity for the fraternity. He is also the past 2nd Vice President and a charter member of the Sigma Xi Sigma chapter in Tampa. Since relocating to Raleigh, he has joined the Eta Sigma Chapter of the fraternity.
Rod is also a member of the NAACP.
Rod is very active in the community, serving now or in the past, on a number of boards:
He is a proud Life Member of the FAMU National Alumni Association.
Rod was a Fall 2021 adjunct professor of communications at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh.
Rod was awarded the Kappa Tau Alpha (KTA) Hall of Fame Award from the University of South Florida, Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications.
Rod is on the Executive Board of the National Association of Black Journalists currently serving as secretary. He is also Chair o the NABJ 50th Anniversary Committee. Rod is past Region III Director for the National Association of Black Journalists, as well as a past president of the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists and past Vice President Broadcast of the Birmingham Association of Black Journalists. He’s currently Vice President Digital for the Raleigh-Durham Chapter of the NABJ.
He coaches and guides upcoming journalists as a mentor.
For years he has been the lead teacher for the NABJ-FAMU Journalism Short Course, instructing students in broadcast during an intensive weekend course. And has for many years been a member of the Florida A&M University School of Journalism Board of Visitors.
Outside journalism, Rod is a proud Life Member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. He is currently the International Director of Publicity for the fraternity. He is also the past 2nd Vice President and a charter member of the Sigma Xi Sigma chapter in Tampa. Since relocating to Raleigh, he has joined the Eta Sigma Chapter of the fraternity.
Rod is also a member of the NAACP.
Rod is very active in the community, serving now or in the past, on a number of boards:
- Secretary: National Association of Black Journalists
- Judge: DPAC Rising Stars
- Member: Community Leadership Board of the American Diabetes Association NC
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay (former board member)
- Board Chair: Gentleman's Quest Mentoring Program
- Board Member: Board of Visitors -FAMU School of Journalism
- Tampa Bay Juneteenth Coalition (former board member)
- Swope, Rodante Vanguard Award Selection Board (former board member)
- Member: Hillsborough Community College Digital, TV and Media Production Advisory Board
- Life Member: FAMU National Alumni Association
- Immediate past Region III Director: National Association of Black Journalists
- VP Digital: Raleigh Durham Association of Black Journalists
- International Dir. of Publicity: Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
- Life Member: Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
- Member: Eta Sigma Chapter, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
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Congressional Black Caucus 2017 with Late Honorable Bro. John Lewis
Phi Beta Sigma "Real Talk" Moderator
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Remember the Dream 2018 |
Historic Flight to Cuba |
2016 Presidential Debates
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ADDITIONAL SERIES: CLICK PHOTOS FOR REPORTS
I go along with the NAACP of Tampa on a bus to Washington DC for the the 50th Anniversary of the historic March on Washington
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President John F Kennedy visits Tampa and 4 days later is assassinate in Dallas. I take a look back at that visit.
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50 years after Freedom Summer, I talk to three people who were part of that historic voting rights movement in the 1960s.
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