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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Gastonia’s police department is bringing on a person to help those experiencing homelessness when police are involved.
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Supplement maker BestCo has been approved for a state grant to expand its facility in Mooresville.
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The program offering rent and utility assistance in Mecklenburg County will start accepting new applications in March.
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The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library has received a $10 million gift from the foundations of Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is giving people a chance to weigh in at a public hearing Tuesday night on a proposed settlement with the New Indy paper mill in Catawba, South Carolina.
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County staff will fan out across Mecklenburg County on Wednesday to get a sense of how many residents are experiencing homelessness.
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The Transportation Security Administration says staff found a record-breaking number of guns in carry-on bags at North Carolina airports in 2021.
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The funeral has been set for Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Mia Goodwin, who was killed last week in a wreck on Interstate 85.
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Electric Vehicle maker Proterra is building a facility in South Carolina to make EV batteries.
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North Carolina’s first confirmed positive case of the omicron variant of COVID-19 has been identified in Charlotte.