Candice McElyea Joins SNN Local News

Manatee County businesswoman Candice McElyea will re-join the SNN Local News team as a freelance news reporter beginning Oct. 3.  McElyea worked as a full time news reporter/anchor at SNN from 1998-2001 and will now work one to two days a week as the popular news station expands into Manatee County on Verizon. 

“I am thrilled to be coming home to SNN,” said McElyea. “Reporting is something that I am very passionate about; as a Sarasota/Manatee County resident for close to 30 years, my roots here are deep and I love telling the stories of my friends and neighbors.”

McElyea moved to Sarasota with her family in 1984 and is a graduate of Riverview High School and of the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. She worked as a news reporter at the ABC news affiliate in Salisbury, MD, before moving to SNN in 1998.

Most recently she opened a full service public relations and media company, is afreelance news writer for Yahoo! News and is co-founder of PoliticallyPersonal.com.

“We welcome Candice back with great enthusiasm and believe our viewers will too,” said Linda DesMarais, executive vice-president and general manager of SNN Local News. “As we expand our viewership into Manatee County on Verizon, she is a welcome addition to the SNN ‘Home Team’ as we continue to bring our viewers the best local news coverage in this region.”

McElyea will be a freelance general assignment reporter with a focus on Manatee County news. SNN Local News is on Comcast channels 6 and400, and on Verizon channel 26.