Starkey joins Lexington District One
November 8, 2014LEXINGTON, SC – At the October 21, 2014 regular monthly meeting of the Lexington County School District One Board of Trustees, the board approved the hire of Robert A. Starkey Jr. for the open position of Media Production Coordinator in the District’s Communications Office.
Starkey, who has 10 years of media experience, most recently served as assignment manager for WACH FOX NEWS where he managed a staff of multi-media journalists, assigned stories and oversaw daily news reports and social media for the station. As a representative of WACH, he built strong community relationships in the Midlands area.
He began his media career as a sports intern for New England Cable News. In 2005, he moved to Columbia, South Carolina, as radio producer and co-host for Inner City Broadcasting Corporation. He joined WACH FOX in 2008, where he also served as multi-media journalist, senior technical director, field producer, reporter and photographer.
Starkey graduated from the Connecticut School of Broadcasting in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts in 2005 after earning an associate’s degree in culinary arts from the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vermont, in 2002. He also has received additional training in American Broadcast Talent workshops, broadcast studio operation, audio production, broadcast journalism, speech, radio and television acting, and video production.