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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Masks are no longer required in Gaston County Schools starting Monday. This makes Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools the last Charlotte-area school district requiring masks.
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation says one of the first permanent traffic systems in the state is officially up and running on Interstate 85 in Mecklenburg and Gaston counties.
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North Carolina business leaders are calling for changes in child care to help stimulate the state’s economy and replenish the workforce.
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York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, will cover tuition and fees for students starting next semester by using federal COVID-19 relief funding.
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Crime statistics released by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division show the homicide rate jumped by 22% and aggravated assaults were up by 10%. There were 552 killings in 2020 compared to 452 in 2019.
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An economic impact study shows this year’s Duke’s Mayo Classic college football games brought a lot of visitors and nearly $49 million to the Charlotte region.
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There’s a new hotline to help residents in North Carolina facing evictions or other housing issues.
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Charlotte Water says it’s unclear whether age was the cause of a break in a main waterline that left thousands with little to no water on Monday evening.
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Suspended Myers Park High School principal Mark Bosco has left the job to take on a new role as a senior administrator for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools the school system said Wednesday.
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An exchange of gunfire outside Garinger High School Tuesday morning led to a lockdown and confiscation of a gun and two loaded magazines, the principal says. No students were hurt but the incident comes amid worries about armed students involved in community violence. Police say a juvenile faces charges.