Will Michaels
Will Michaels started his professional radio career at WUNC.
He was first an intern while studying at UNC-Chapel Hill. As a part of his internship, he worked for a semester on the daily national show, The Story with Dick Gordon. Will concentrated on radio while at college, studying under veteran NPR reporter AdamHochberg. He began as a reporter for,UNC's radio news magazine, and then became an anchor and managing editor for the program in 2009, when it was named the best college radio news program in the country by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Will came back to WUNC after graduation in 2010 as the producer for the local broadcast of Morning Edition, rising before the sun to help host Eric Hodge gather and present the news. In 2014, he produced WUNC's My Teacher series, part of the North Carolina Teacher Project. He joined the team for The State of Things later that year.
In 2016, Will became WUNC's first Daily News Producer, creating content for WUNC newscasts and periodically filling in as host for Morning Edition or All Things Considered.
In 2020, Will moved from producing to reporting full time as WUNC's General Assingment Reporter. He now hosts Morning Edition each Friday.
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Daily protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis have spread across North Carolina. While the message of these demonstrations is slightly...
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Operators of long-term care facilities say their staff members are quitting at a higher rate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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State health officials say early results from antibody tests show a small percentage of North Carolinians have been exposed to the coronavirus.
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The University of North Carolina System agreed to give the state chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans $74,999 in exchange for the group keeping...
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The University of North Carolina Board of Governors is giving the state chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million to preserve a...
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The chair of the UNC System's Board of Governors is resigning after a little more than a year at the position. A spokesman for the system said today...
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National forecasters say high tide flooding hit record levels in some parts of North Carolina and expect it to be more common over the next 30 years.
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The Confederate statue known as "Silent Sam" had stood on the main campus quad in Chapel Hill from 1913 until it was torn down by protesters in August 2018.
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Updated 7:25 p.m. | Nov. 6, 2018 The Orange Water and Sewage Authority has lifted a boil water advisory for most of its Chapel Hill and Carrboro...
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Graduations rates are slowly rising in North Carolina's public universities, but disparities remain among each school and their racial demographics....