Anchor Craig Melvin at USC for journalism lecture

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — One-time Columbia television reporter and current MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin is delivering a lecture at the University of South Carolina on how technology is changing broadcast news.

Melvin’s talk Wednesday evening is free and open to the public. The speech is sponsored by the Buchheit Family Endowment, which provides scholarships and fellowships to students in the university’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Melvin covered homelessness, gang violence and a prison hostage standoff during his time with a Columbia station WIS-TV, earning an Emmy Award for his reporting.

In 2008 he joined WRC-TV, NBC’s owned-and-operated station in Washington, D.C., and recently became an anchor for MSNBC and a news correspondent for NBC News.

Melvin is a graduate of Columbia High School and Wofford College.