Gwendolyn Glenn
Host, WFAE's All Things ConsideredGwendolyn is an award-winning journalist who has covered a broad range of stories on the local and national levels. Her experience includes producing on-air reports for National Public Radio and she worked full-time as a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered news program for five years. She worked for several years as an on-air contract reporter for CNN in Atlanta and worked in print as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun Media Group, The Washington Post and covered Congress and various federal agencies for the Daily Environment Report and Real Estate Finance Today. Glenn has won awards for her reports from the Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association, SNA and the first-place radio award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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What does it mean for a small town when the mill that’s been the center of economic and social life for a century closes? And what is a mill town without its mill? That’s what happened Wednesday in the mountain town of Canton, about 140 miles west of Charlotte, a place that’s long been known as “Papertown.” WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn spoke about the impact of the Pactiv Evergreen closure with Canton's Mayor Zeb Smathers. -
JCSU exhibit focuses on Negro National Baseball League — an often forgotten part of American historyAn exhibition opens at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, that focuses on the Negro National (Baseball) League and its connections to North Carolina —home to several baseball greats.
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Dr. Kevin Scruggs talks about his path to becoming a veterinarian and the challenges he faced in opening his own vet hospital in Charlotte.
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Grammy-nominated jazz singer Nnenna Freelon talks about her podcast "Great Grief" and how she used it to cope with the loss of her husband in 2019, renowned architect Phil Freelon.
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The show "Today, Explained" started off as a podcast in 2018 to explore important news stories of the day. It debuts today on WFAE at 7 p.m. Co-host Noel King talked to WFAE's "All Things Considered" host Gwendolyn Glenn about the show and more.
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Charlotte's new planning director talks about the city's growth being more equitable, how older neighborhoods can be preserved and displacements minimized in the process.
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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Wende Kerl’s immunity in the 2019 fatal shooting of 27-year-old Danquirs Franklin. Earlier this week, the panel of judges ruled that the officers intensified a situation that had subsided and that a “reasonable jury” would have concluded that Franklin did not pose a threat to anyone when he was shot.
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State Rep. Mike Clampitt has introduced legislation that would lower the legal limit for drivers' blood alcohol content from .08 to .05 in North Carolina.
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Ryan Black, owner of the Blackstone Ranch in Gastonia, is one of four bachelors on the FOX TV series "Farmer Wants A Wife."
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The Gantt Center opens a digital arts center that the public can use for free to work on art, animation, graphic design and other projects, using high-tech equipment.
