Jodie Valade
Editor, Digital News and EngagementJodie Valade has been a Digital News and Engagement Editor for WFAE since 2019. Since moving to Charlotte in 2015, she has worked as a digital content producer for NASCAR.com and a freelance writer for publications ranging from Charlotte magazine to The Athletic to The Washington Post and New York Times. Before that, Jodie was an award-winning sports features and enterprise reporter at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. She also worked at The Dallas Morning News covering the Dallas Mavericks — where she became Mark Cuban's lifelong email pen pal — and at The Kansas City Star. She has a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University and a Master of Education from John Carroll University. She is originally from Rochester Hills, Michigan.
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Charlotte has quite a few professional sports teams. Of course, there’s the NFL team the Carolina Panthers and the NBA team the Charlotte Hornets. Soon there will also be a Major League Soccer team, Charlotte FC. But why doesn’t Charlotte have a Major League Baseball team? Could it ever happen? -
The Mint Museum Randolph’s Anna Sui exhibit features 100 different looks and marks the first exhibit at the museum dedicated to an Asian American designer and the first devoted to a woman’s body of work. -
Historic Brattonsville's Brick House opens its doors to the public Tuesday for the first time since 1885. Two exhibits there aim to tell the story of the Reconstruction Era in York County — and it was a thoughtful decision to focus on that time period. -
A west Charlotte neighborhood has a new community space. The Ritz at Washington Heights opened last weekend at the site of the former Ritz Theater, the last movie theater built exclusively for Black patrons in the city. Here's why it was important to honor the past. -
During the first two weekends of November, Charlotte can say goodbye to the Main Library in uptown. The building closed last week and will be demolished in early 2022 to make way for a new $100 million project at the same site. -
Bigger than Mini-Con and smaller than HeroesCon, Giant-Size Mini-Con comes to Charlotte this weekendThe Giant-Size Charlotte Mini-Con is a chance for comic book collectors and fans to convene in Charlotte — something they haven't done in two years. -
On Oct. 29, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Main Library branch will close. It will be demolished in early 2022 to make way for a new $100 million building on the same site. Before then, 140,000 collection items have to be moved and temporarily stored — and it is a massive undertaking. -
A new documentary "SCRUM" tells the story of Queens University's men's rugby team, showing how the Black head coach intentionally recruits diverse players — a rarity in the sport. -
The Charlotte Museum of History's new exhibit "Charlotte: Signs of Home" opens Oct. 16 and will feature iconic signs from Charlotte's history, including the JFG Coffee sign, The Penguin sign and Eastland Mall sign. -
The Charlotte Museum of History's annual Mad About Modern tour of midcentury modern homes is virtual again this year. But that format also presented a unique opportunity.
