Stephen Crews, Assignment Manager
By: Stephen Crews
Updated: March 6, 2013
Stephen Crews joined the WDHN News Team in October of 2010.
Stephen is no stranger to the Wiregrass. He got his start in journalism in 1993 when he covered Geneva High School football for the Enterprise Ledger during his junior year in high school.
Following his senior year of high school he once again got a call to cover Geneva High athletics, this time for his hometown newspaper, the Geneva County Reaper. Stephen wasn't with the paper long before being offered the opportunity to cover general news stories as well as sports stories for the entire county.
Over the next seven years, Stephen juggled going to school and working for the paper full time moving from general reporting to working as the Samson beat writer to eventually being promoted to Sports Editor.
During that time Stephen covered numerous stories including the two historic floods in the city of Geneva in 2004 and 2008, the murder of Holmes County Deputy Lonnie Lindsey and the still unsolved murder of Lucky Griswold.
Stephen left the newspaper in December of 2001 for one year before returning to cover sports on a part-time basis once again. In October of 2002 Stephen became the editor of The Samson Ledger, The Hartford News-Herald and The Geneva County Reaper. He led all three newspapers for the next seven years as editor before stepping down in December of 2008. He remained with the paper for another six months while at the same time establishing his photography studio in downtown Geneva.
Stephen covered a number of high profile stories in Geneva County during his second stint at the paper including the deadly Samson shooting rampage in 2009 that left 10 people dead. Stephen was the first reporter on the scene when the suspect finally took his life after a shootout with law enforcement.
Two months after the shooting, Stephen left Geneva Newspapers to work on his own news website and continue the photography business.
Stephen joined the WDHN News team as a web reporter. Six months later he went to work full time for WDHN as the Assignment Manger. Stephen is responsible for reporter assignments each day. In addition to this he handles all website content for dothanfirst.com and produces the 5 p.m. newscast.
A graduate of Geneva High School, Stephen spent a total of 16 years in the newspaper industry.
Stephen is married to Allison Leonard of Milton, Florida and they have one daughter Blakely.
Stephen can be reached at screws@wdhn.com anytime and is always interested in hearing from viewers and looking for news story ideas!
Stephen is no stranger to the Wiregrass. He got his start in journalism in 1993 when he covered Geneva High School football for the Enterprise Ledger during his junior year in high school.
Following his senior year of high school he once again got a call to cover Geneva High athletics, this time for his hometown newspaper, the Geneva County Reaper. Stephen wasn't with the paper long before being offered the opportunity to cover general news stories as well as sports stories for the entire county.
Over the next seven years, Stephen juggled going to school and working for the paper full time moving from general reporting to working as the Samson beat writer to eventually being promoted to Sports Editor.
During that time Stephen covered numerous stories including the two historic floods in the city of Geneva in 2004 and 2008, the murder of Holmes County Deputy Lonnie Lindsey and the still unsolved murder of Lucky Griswold.
Stephen left the newspaper in December of 2001 for one year before returning to cover sports on a part-time basis once again. In October of 2002 Stephen became the editor of The Samson Ledger, The Hartford News-Herald and The Geneva County Reaper. He led all three newspapers for the next seven years as editor before stepping down in December of 2008. He remained with the paper for another six months while at the same time establishing his photography studio in downtown Geneva.
Stephen covered a number of high profile stories in Geneva County during his second stint at the paper including the deadly Samson shooting rampage in 2009 that left 10 people dead. Stephen was the first reporter on the scene when the suspect finally took his life after a shootout with law enforcement.
Two months after the shooting, Stephen left Geneva Newspapers to work on his own news website and continue the photography business.
Stephen joined the WDHN News team as a web reporter. Six months later he went to work full time for WDHN as the Assignment Manger. Stephen is responsible for reporter assignments each day. In addition to this he handles all website content for dothanfirst.com and produces the 5 p.m. newscast.
A graduate of Geneva High School, Stephen spent a total of 16 years in the newspaper industry.
Stephen is married to Allison Leonard of Milton, Florida and they have one daughter Blakely.
Stephen can be reached at screws@wdhn.com anytime and is always interested in hearing from viewers and looking for news story ideas!
