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About WUNC News
Live from our studios in Chapel Hill and Durham, WUNC News presents award-winning local news, plus regional culture and current affairs conversations that put life in the Triangle into perspective without paywalls or subscriptions.
With accurateand balanced reporting— and community support—we offer clarity and context for what’s happening at the North Carolina State Capitol, across the Triangle, and around the globe. We are proud to offer trustworthy, independent news from our newsroom, plus national and international news from a variety of public media sources, including NPR and the BBC World Service.
Listen to WUNC News on the radio at 91.5FM in the Triangle, 88.9 FM in Manteo and the Outer Banks, 91.9 and 99.9 FM in Fayetteville, 91.1 in Welcome, 90.9 in Rocky Mount, 89.1 FM in Laurinburg, 89.9 FM in Chadbourn, 90.5 in Buxton, and 94.1 in Lumberton. See our coverage map below for details.
Stream WUNC News 24/7 online, on the WUNC News app, on your smart speaker, and more.
WUNC Vision
To inspire audiences throughout the Triangle region to engage with journalism and culture, enriching lives and connecting communities across North Carolina.
WUNC Mission
WUNC is a public media organization that informs and engages North Carolina through journalism and culture. Our mission is to provide enriching, essential news and content of the highest quality to audiences in the Triangle region and beyond.
WUNC Direction
To better serve audiences with news products that are thoughtfully created and distributed, utilizing data to guide the way. Building more efficient and effective news products and audience funnels to ensure engagement, sustainability, and business success.
WUNC Community Representation Statement
WUNC’s goal is to connect with our community. We are committed to reflecting the communities we serve in the content we provide. By design, WUNC is a media outlet that celebrates the diversity of our community on-air, online, and in the workplace. WUNC believes it must reflect the entire community through representation, including race, gender, disability, protected veterans, religious belief, age, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, physicality, education, and socio-economic status.
The station reflects our community through a diverse staff that we continue to grow through employment and promotion opportunities to individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We continue to advance a thoughtful hiring process that includes varied representation on all hiring committees and recruitment through job fairs and a wide range of associations.
WUNC’s board is appointed by the UNC Board of Trustees and reflects the mission to serve the people of North Carolina. The board includes individuals who bring a wide range of expertise and experience to the station, with backgrounds in everything from media to finance and investment to the military, reflecting the large geographical area covered by our signals and our audience.
WUNC operates across half of North Carolina’s 100 counties and shares content with other media outlets. In 2023 alone, WUNC shared more than 700 stories with public radio stations in North Carolina and beyond.
WUNC’s vision is to create original programming that reflects the diversity and range of opinions in North Carolina. This is achieved through a variety of shows, including: “Due South,” a daily show focusing on news and Southern culture from a regional perspective; “Embodied,” which explores sex, relationships, and health; and “The Broadside” podcast, which examines one story happening in the heart of the American South each week.
Additionally, WUNC has a significant newsroom that focuses on issues and topics that affect most North Carolinians. Through beats like education, health, military and veterans’ issues, race, class & communities, politics, and more, WUNC News’ staff work to cover the stories that impact our community and beyond. Each beat reporter is also responsible for covering the intersection of their beat with state government policy.
Furthermore, WUNC News focuses on stories that reflect North Carolina and represent the communities we serve. For example, reporting projects such as Main Street NC focus on visiting communities across the state to hear from local leaders about the positive aspects of their towns, as well as the challenges they face, from population loss to flooding to aging utility infrastructure. Scorched Workers examines the impact of rising heat on outdoor workers. And the American Homefront Project is a reporting series focused on military life and veterans’ issues. The dedicated reporter visits bases to chronicle how troops are working and living and talks with veterans to learn about the challenges they face. Additionally, the series has a dedicated editor working with numerous public radio stations to platform stories about veterans and veteran issues.
WUNC has an internal staff committee dedicated to strategically fulfilling the station’s community representation and accountability goals (see outlined goals below). The committee focuses on a variety of activities, which have ranged from staff trainings and discussion groups to hosting a series of community forums.
Goals include:
- Community Outreach: We place our audience at the forefront of our inclusion efforts. WUNC is strategically focusing on producing events that provide contextual information around stories that matter to the communities we are in. We have created and hosted a series of community forums, developed community-centered news projects, and formed community partnerships to better integrate WUNC with those we serve.
- Staff belonging: WUNC understands that it takes dedicated journalists to produce informative, relevant, and accurate news for all communities. A central focus of the committee is ensuring our staff feels a strong sense of belonging and reflects the community we serve. Our efforts towards a strong sense of belonging include staff trainings, increasing internal communication and collaboration, and regular discussion groups.
- Accountability: Across WUNC’s departments, we are dedicated to holding ourselves accountable to serving all communities. We do this by diversifying and tracking the sources we use for news stories to ensure we are hearing from people in all communities.
WUNC knows that creating an inclusive workplace requires the commitment of everyone at the organization. That’s why the committee works to hold staff accountable for implementing policies that ensure every employee feels like they belong. That includes holding senior leadership accountable for improving communication channels throughout the organization.
WUNC Donor Information Security Procedures
Donor privacy and security are a top priority for WUNC. Gifts received during on-air pledge drives are recorded manually by WUNC staff and volunteers who are closely supervised by WUNC staff. The pledge information is entered into an electronic format that is loaded into a secure database. All electronic pledge submissions are encrypted, secure, and password protected. All stored credit card information is access-restricted to WUNC's database manager.
WUNC Donor List and Email Subscriber Privacy Policy
WUNC has always had a policy of absolute donor confidentiality. WUNC will never share its donor or e-mail lists with any organization.
WUNC’s news and informational programming make up the core of the station's public service. Any activity that undermines the credibility of such programming debases the currency of our realm; and, clearly, trading donor or e-mail lists with political organizations or partisan organizations would undermine the station's reputation for balance, fairness, and accuracy. Moreover, a listener's decision to support WUNC or to join a WUNC mailing list is fundamentally private. WUNC is committed to keeping that decision private.
Contact WUNC
WUNC
120 Friday Center Drive
Chapel Hill,NC 27517
Telephone: 919.445.9150|1.800.962.9862
Fax: 919.966.5955
Email: WUNC@wunc.org
WUNC Community Discussion Rules
Our rules for participating in WUNC social networking extend to comments posted on our Facebook page and other social media.
Job Openings
Current job openings are available here.
