Cass Herrington
Cass Herrington is BPR's Morning Edition host and news reporter. Her reporting largely focuses on stories dealing with health, race, and immigration.
Before joining BPR in 2019, Herrington spent nearly seven years writing, reporting and hosting for NPR stations in Illinois and Indiana.
Her reporting has earned numerous awards, including the designations of best reporter by the Associated Press Broadcaster’s Associations in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.
In 2015, Cass received a prestigious national Edward R. Murrow award for a show she produced about non-verbal teens with Autism who rely on iPads to communicate.
A Kentucky native, Herrington graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in journalism, international studies and Spanish. She's fluent in Spanish, loves to travel, and is a proud, bleed-blue Kentucky Wildcats fan.
Herrington also co-hosts a podcast, called Skillet, about the intersection of food and memory.
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A study from the North Carolina Cable Telecommunications Association finds that utility poles -- in particular, who owns them -- are holding up access... -
Town Branch, also called “Nasty Branch,” is the longest creek that flows through Asheville. It’s also the most polluted. Environmentalists and residents... -
Three new billboards around Asheville are calling for the resignation of Western North Carolina’s Congressman Madison Cawthorn. -
Voting can be a complicated process for many. The pandemic is exposing that, with many rules only just now being widely discovered for the first time.... -
It’s apple season in Western North Carolina. Hand-painted roadside signs boast cider doughnuts and homemade pies. The beloved seasonal fruit is picked... -
North Carolina has become a sanctuary state for child predators. -
After a week of protests against police brutality in Asheville and across the country, local educators are using history to make sense of what feels... -
The police chief in Asheville has apologized for the destruction of a medic station that was set up for people protesting police brutality and the death… -
Henderson County is the lone sheriff’s department in Western North Carolina that participates in the federal 287(g) program. That agreement allowed for... -
For Spanish learners, the city of Asheville is plentiful with opportunities to improve their language skills. For a group of Buncombe County Schools...
