Melanie Sill, Author at The Assembly NC

High Point’s Controversial New Law Dean Speaks (Sort Of)

Mark Martin delivers the State of the Judiciary address in March 2015.

Critics have called for Mark Martin, a former North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice, to account for his part in efforts to fight the 2020 election outcome.

A University and its Radio Station

In the 1950s, Carolina Students Charles Kuralt (left) and classmate Carl Kassell (right) helped launch the FM version of WUNC, a student-run station that would later become an NPR affiliate. Kuralt and Kassell would go on to national fame.

WUNC and its owner, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, say they’ve kept the station editorially independent. But the university is an interested party with a hand in choosing a new president to set the course for North Carolina’s largest NPR affiliate.

At WUNC a New Effort to Close Longstanding Gaps on Race

WUNC's studios at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham // Photo by Kate Medley

A cross-department diversity and inclusion committee is working with a broad agenda and long-range commitment, but the station’s staff, leadership and audience are short on Black representation in a diverse region and state.

Is WUNC Ready to Turn It Up?

Photos by Kate Medley

North Carolina’s largest public radio station has banked $20 million in cash with strong broadcast numbers and listener support, but it has also left gaps. Now WUNC is seeking a new president, and a vision for moving forward, in a shifting universe of local news and media.

How Listener Love Helped WUNC Build a $20 Million Reserve

Photos by Kate Medley

WUNC is a national leader for fundraising success, especially from its “sustaining” members, who have helped boost the station’s reserve to record levels.