Kavontae Smalls
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Kavontae Smalls is an award-winning multimedia journalist with experience spanning commercial and public media as well as a media relations professional with experience in non-profit and government sectors. Smalls’ passion for storytelling and lending his resources to be a voice for the voiceless has fueled his media career for more than a decade.
Smalls currently fulfills several roles which include national news reporter, podcast producer, media consultant and media relations professional. Much of his work focuses on stories and issues that impacts underrepresented communities.
In his previous roles, he has served in external communication and digital capacities for a sitting U.S. congressman, sheriff’s office, and the Salvation Army. Smalls’ news career began a more than a decade ago at a time when digital media’s takeover of traditional journalism changed the way commercial news operated. His television background includes working for networks throughout Northwest Florida and Ohio sharing fact-based stories which include Presidential campaigns, heartbreaking stories of lost loved ones, to uplifting stories of triumph, and investigative pieces.
Smalls’ work has received earned him several awards and recognitions including two National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston/New England Governor’s Awards, a National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence award, Massachusetts Psychological Association Media Award, Clarion Award, as well as news story appearances on CNN and MSNBC national cable outlets. One of Smalls’ most impactful works resulted in an expose revealing elderly abuse and neglect leading to the shutdown of an assisted living facility and its owners sentenced to prison. As a public relations professional, he helped raise more than $188,000 as part of a marketing campaign for families in need. He also oversaw media relations responsibilities from local, state, and national media outlets including CNN, CBS, Washington Post among many others for Congressman Matt Gaetz.
Smalls holds a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications with emphasis in television and film journalism and a minor in political science from the University of West Florida.
Smalls currently fulfills several roles which include national news reporter, podcast producer, media consultant and media relations professional. Much of his work focuses on stories and issues that impacts underrepresented communities.
In his previous roles, he has served in external communication and digital capacities for a sitting U.S. congressman, sheriff’s office, and the Salvation Army. Smalls’ news career began a more than a decade ago at a time when digital media’s takeover of traditional journalism changed the way commercial news operated. His television background includes working for networks throughout Northwest Florida and Ohio sharing fact-based stories which include Presidential campaigns, heartbreaking stories of lost loved ones, to uplifting stories of triumph, and investigative pieces.
Smalls’ work has received earned him several awards and recognitions including two National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston/New England Governor’s Awards, a National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence award, Massachusetts Psychological Association Media Award, Clarion Award, as well as news story appearances on CNN and MSNBC national cable outlets. One of Smalls’ most impactful works resulted in an expose revealing elderly abuse and neglect leading to the shutdown of an assisted living facility and its owners sentenced to prison. As a public relations professional, he helped raise more than $188,000 as part of a marketing campaign for families in need. He also oversaw media relations responsibilities from local, state, and national media outlets including CNN, CBS, Washington Post among many others for Congressman Matt Gaetz.
Smalls holds a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications with emphasis in television and film journalism and a minor in political science from the University of West Florida.