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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Novant Health says of the 375 employees who were suspended for not getting COVID-19 vaccines, nearly 200 are now compliant. The rest no longer have jobs with the health care system, which is based in Winston-Salem and has a major presence in Charlotte.
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Mecklenburg County Commissioners will get an update Tuesday night on Historic Latta Plantation.
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A new homeless shelter for men opened on Wednesday in Charlotte. The Howard Levine Men’s Shelter will house men who have been living in an emergency motel-based shelter during the pandemic.
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The latest numbers show the national unemployment rate fell slightly to 5.2% in August from 5.4% in July. The new numbers were released Friday, just before federal supplemental unemployment benefits ended.
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The city of Charlotte has announced that Jefferson Davis Street is being renamed Druid Hills Way. The name changing process started in June.
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South Carolina Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman says she disagrees with Gov. Henry McMaster, who says parents should decide whether their kids wear masks in schools.
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South Carolina’s new open carry law goes into effect this weekend. Gov. Henry McMaster signed the new law in May, and it goes into effect on Sunday.
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Population numbers from the U.S. Census are due out Thursday. Those granular numbers will help North Carolina lawmakers decide how to carve up political maps for Congress and state legislative districts.
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DreamKey Partners, the organization handing out state and federal rental relief funding to keep people in their homes, says it’s making the most vulnerable a top priority when dispersing the funds.
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Executions in South Carolina came to a stop a decade ago when pharmaceutical companies stopped providing drugs for lethal injections. In a move to restart executions, the state updated its capital punishment law to include the choice of execution by firing squad.