Isiah Carey

Isaiah Carey was born on October 17, 1970 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was there that he got his first taste of broadcast news. His first experience in broadcast journalism came many years before he joined NBC affiliate WVLA-TV as a general assignment reporter and weekend public affairs talk show host in 1990. He was a third-grade student at South Boulevard Elementary School when he realized he wanted to be a reporter. His teacher invited a television journalist named Maxine Crump, an anchor for WAFB-TV, to talk to his class. She provided the inspiration to pursue a career in TV journalism. After her visit, he wrote a letter to the news director of a TV station in Baton Rouge, asking if he could work there in the summer. This he did every summer until he went away to college. By the 10th grade, station personnel were convinced he had a future in broadcast journalism when they accepted his first script of a news story. After graduating from high school, Carey entered the University of