Laura Pellicer
Digital ReporterLaura Pellicer is a digital reporter with WUNC’s small but intrepid digital news team. She is also the co-host and co-creator of CREEP, an award-winning podcast about creatures invading our space and changing the world around us.
Before that, she was a producer with The State of Things, a show that explores North Carolina through conversation. Her coverage at WUNC of the controversial Silent Sam Confederate monument garnered a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media.
Laura was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, a city she considers arrestingly beautiful, if not a little dysfunctional. She worked as a researcher for CBC Montreal and contributed to their programming as an investigative journalist, social media reporter, and special projects planner. Her work has been nominated for two Canadian RTDNA Awards.
Laura loves tracing innovations in science and technology, and pursuing stories about Indigenous communities and environmental justice. She is enamored with her home in North Carolina — notably the lush forests, and the waves where she moonlights as a mediocre surfer.
You can reach her via email at lpellicer@wunc.org.
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As the anniversary of Andrew Brown Jr.’s death in Elizabeth City nears, many who called for justice say that until now, they have seen little in the way of transparency or reform. -
Ariana DeBose has been moving up in the Broadway world by leaps and bounds. The North Carolina native got her start in showbiz with a role on the…
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In a briefing on Sunday afternoon, Gov. Roy Cooper and state emergency management officials provided an update on the impacts of sleet and snow blanketing parts of North Carolina.
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More than 150 drivers were absent late last week in Wake County, and Guilford County Schools had 76 drivers who were out Friday with COVID-19.
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WUNC reporters tackle the big questions for North Carolinians looking to protect themselves and their families.
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On April 21, 2021, deputies with the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed 42-year old Andrew Brown Jr., an unarmed Black man. WUNC's Laura Pellicer interviewed Elizabeth City Mayor Bettie Parker about the community's push for changes in policing.
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Brown’s family and others are still waiting for key developments in the case — including the results of an ongoing FBI probe, a family lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages, and a media petition for the public release of body camera footage.
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Most people want nothing to do with rats. They're pests, vermin with voracious appetites. But they're also clever, adaptable and so pervasive around the world, it's easy to forget that, in most places, rats are an invasive species.
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Governor Roy Cooper and legislative leaders say they've reached a compromise on a comprehensive energy bill. The bill aims to meet Cooper's goals on greenhouse gas reductions and gives dominant utility Duke Energy the ability to seek multiyear rate increases.
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The North Carolina Courage announced Thursday that head coach Paul Riley has been terminated effective immediately. The decision comes after multiple former players accused Riley of sexual coercion. The allegations were detailed in an investigative story published by The Athletic.
