Catherine Welch
Assistant News DirectorCatherine Welch is Assistant News Director at WFAE. She has led newsrooms at KUNC in Greely, CO, Rhode Island Public Radio in Providence, RI and WHQR in Wilmington, NC. She was also news director at KBIA in Columbia, MO where she was a faculty member at the University Of Missouri School Of Journalism. Catherine has won several regional Edward R. Murrow awards and awards from the Public Radio News Directors Inc., New England AP, North Carolina Press Association, Missouri Press Association, and Missouri Broadcasters Association.
She has filed stories for NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition. In 2009 she was part of an NPR series on America’s Battalion out of Camp Lejeune, NC following Marine families during the battalion’s deployment to southern Afghanistan.
Catherine got her start in radio at her family’s radio station in Florida with her weekly jazz show "Catherine Keeping You Company." Her very first interview was with Cab Calloway, and it remains the strangest one she’s ever done. She will gladly tell you the story should you ask.
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The Charlotte Rescue Mission says rising construction costs have driven up the price of building its new men’s shelter. -
Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden says he’s canceling some 1,300 appointments for fingerprint services needed to get a permit for a pistol and concealed handgun.
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Charlotte police say they’ve arrested a former pro skateboarder in connection with sexual abuse allegations that go back to 1993.
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Duke Energy says it has buyers for two of its properties in uptown Charlotte.
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Wells Fargo is responding to allegations in a lawsuit that the bank discriminated against Black lenders, calling the claims unfounded.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department says crimes involving guns continue to be a problem in the city.
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Even before the great resignation, the fintech industry has been struggling for years to fill open positions. Charlotte’s fintech industry is feeling the pinch as well.
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Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary McFadden told county commissioners Tuesday that his staff has not received a break since the pandemic started. He made the comment during his presentation addressing safety concerns and staffing shortages at the jail.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say they arrested Darian Dru Thavychith in a suburb of Kansas City and charged him with murder and related crimes in the Feb. 11 shooting death of Ethan Rivera, a CATS driver who was operating a bus with passengers on it when the attack happened.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department says while overall violent crime is down from this time last year, crimes involving guns are up.
