Tut Underwood
Reporter, ProducerTut Underwood is producer of South Carolina Focus, a weekly news feature. A native of Alabama, Tut graduated from Auburn University with a BA in Speech Communication. He worked in radio in his hometown before moving to Columbia where he received a Master of Mass Communications degree from the University of South Carolina, and worked for local radio while pursuing his degree. He also worked in television. He was employed as a public information specialist for USC, and became Director of Public Information and Marketing for the South Carolina State Museum. His hobbies include reading, listening to music in a variety of styles and collecting movies and old time radio programs.
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The University of South Carolina’s honors college sponsors a writing contest each year to encourage students to write, and to get readers for these… -
Elizabeth Gray of West Columbia is a former Marine, but that didn’t protect her from domestic violence at home. But as she escaped an abusive marriage,… -
People and the press have referred to last year’s historic flood as a “thousand year” flood, as if an event of this size wouldn’t happen for another… -
On average, about two people die by suicide each day in South Carolina, which is more than twice the state’s homicide rate. With its “Out of the Darkness”… -
Rain can be a painful reminder to some people of the great losses suffered a year ago in South Carolina’s historic floods. According to USC School of… -
In cooperation with South Carolina ETV, the Charleston Music Hall has been the scene of a growing series of televised concerts known as Live at the… -
American consumers buy nearly 20 billion new items of clothing a year, many of them made of Southern cotton, but 98 percent made overseas. A University of… -
At Harmony School, a private school in the Columbia suburb of Forest Acres, children learn in a couple of portable classrooms that were pressed into… -
With the opening of the fall semester at colleges across the state, a multitude of students can be seen negotiating the streets on mopeds. But they are by… -
As recording technology continues to improve, recording studios are finding themselves in an ironic struggle to survive against that very technology. The…
