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Mitchell Northam
Digital News ProducerMitchell Northam is a Digital Producer for WUNC. He was born in Iceland, but grew up eating blue crabs and scrapple on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
In addition to working at the Delmarva Daily Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, his work has also been featured at SB Nation, the Orlando Sentinel, NCAA.com, Sports Illustrated, Pittsburgh Sports Now, and the Associated Press. He is a graduate of Salisbury University and has won awards from the MD-DC Press Association and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. He is also a voter in the AP Top 25 poll for women's college basketball.
His first book — "High School Basketball on Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Shore Hoops History" — was published in May 2022.
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Davis and the five other Democrats who voted for the resolution represent Republican-leaning or tossup districts that could tilt to the GOP in November.
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Jim Phillips: ACC will continue to 'fight' against 'disruptive' lawsuits from Florida State, ClemsonThe ACC Commissioner, at football media days in Charlotte, spoke with force about the lawsuits and made one thing crystal clear: the ACC will not throw in the towel on this legal battle.
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Courage goalkeeper Casey Murphy was named to the final 18-player roster on Wednesday for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, USWNT coach Emma Hayes announced.
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In a statement provided to WUNC, Gov. Roy Cooper said Apple is still committed to investing in North Carolina. The tech company reportedly wants to delay its timeline for completion of the campus by four years.
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Extra transport from RDU, big crowds over the weekend, and preparation for hosting one of the country’s biggest golf tournament in the coming years.
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The CIAA football championship will be played at Durham County Memorial Stadium for three consecutive years, from 2025 through 2027. It's the latest building block for the Durham Sports Commission in its goal to make the Bull City into a “championship hub” for sports.
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Pinehurst No. 2 crowned its fourth U.S. Open champion on Sunday in North Carolina's Sandhills as Bryson DeChambeau sank a par putt on the 18th green to beat Rory McIlroy by one stroke.
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This week, The Pilot will publish Open Daily — a pop-up daily newspaper dedicated to coverage of the U.S. Open — for the eighth time. In an era where newspapers are declining and vanishing rapidly, Open Daily and The Pilot have persisted.
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For the fourth time, Pinehurst No. 2 will host the U.S. Open, one of four major championships in men’s professional golf. The USGA committed to bringing the U.S. Open back four more times to North Carolina's Sandhills over the next 23 years.
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Petey Pablo leads the 2024 class of inductees into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame, located in Kannapolis. The Greenville native and four other artists – and the Durham-based Merge Records – will join the already existing 132 other honorees.