N.C. Media News and In-Depth Reporting

Ovies & Giglio Want Triangle Sports Fans to Keep Arguing Forever

Podcasters Joe Ovies and Joe Giglio record in their studio. (Photo by Ethan Hyman, courtesy of Ovies)

The former radio hosts are reinventing themselves as podcasters at a fraught time for both media and sports.

Press On

The dormant offices of The Wilmington Journal, one of the state's oldest Black newspapers, are nestled in a century-old building in a quiet residential neighborhood on 7th Street. (Photo by Johanna F. Still)

One of the state’s oldest Black newspapers is clinging to life in Wilmington, but some are optimistic for its revival.

A Judge, A Reporter, And a Notebook

A case in Guildford County raises questions about a reporter’s First Amendment rights.

A Newspaper Publisher’s Biggest Regret

The Charlotte Observer’s Rolfe Neill was among the last of the regional newspaper titans.

Wandering The Desert

In the small towns like those of Pamlico County, local news has all but dried up.

Eastern North Carolina has seen what happens when a once-thriving news environment dries up – and what emerges to fill the void.

Occupied

Timothy Jacobs in January 2023.

Thirty-five years ago, two men took 17 hostages at a Robeson County newspaper to protest corruption and racism. One of the captors hasn’t lost his commitment to recognition for the Tuscarora.

Behind the Scenes on The New Yorker’s TRU Colors Story

The Assembly talks to Charles Bethea about his story on the Wilmington brewery and its connection to gang violence.

Below the Fold

North Carolina’s third-largest city, Greensboro, once had a thriving newspaper in the News & Record. What’s left after years of media-conglomerate cuts is a shell of the paper’s former self.

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.