Baylor Alumna Named 2024-25 Radford Scholar

Writer and podcaster Claire St. Amant has been named the 2024 Radford Visiting Professor for the Department of Journalism, Public Relations & New Media. 

In April 2024, St. Amant served as a guest speaker in our department for one week, offering students a preview of a course she is teaching this fall. St. Amant hosts the true-crime podcast and authorizes the upcoming memoir Killer Story, which is scheduled to be released in 2025 by BenBella Books. 

Before her career in podcasting, St. Amant developed and produced stories for CBS News and is credited with over 20 episodes of 48 Hours. She has covered an assassination attempt on a judge in Austin, a serial killer in South Carolina, and a murder-for-hire sting on two doctors in Houston. She was part of the breaking news team nominated for an Emmy in 2016 for "Bringing a Nation Together," a special report on the Dallas Police shooting.

A Baylor University graduate with a bachelor's degree in journalism, she is a former Peace Corps volunteer. The journalist started her career at People Newspapers in Dallas, where she earned her first of two Philbin Awards for excellence in legal reporting. She was a founding editor of the popular daily news site CultureMap Dallas, and her investigative series on a faked home invasion led to a new career at CBS News.

The late Lillian and Rupert Radford of Houston provided funds for an endowed visiting professor of journalism.