Rachel Lewis Hilburn
Rachel Lewis Hilburn came to WHQR in the spring of 2011. After serving as back-up host for Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Classical Music for a year, she was named News Director in July of 2012.
She moved to Wilmington in 2003 from Los Angeles, where she worked as a financial advisor for Morgan Stanley. After joining the local ABC affiliate in Wilmington, she wrote and produced local TV newscasts, a 30-minute special program for the Cape Fear Museum showcasing its renovation and new exhibits, and independently wrote and produced a documentary on the lingering effects of the 1898 coup d'etat in Wilmington. Before joining the staff, Rachel partnered with New York co-producer Linda Bianchi and produced Stories, Wine, and Cheese - a series of local, live storytelling events which aired on WHQR.
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Wilmington, North Carolina is about to become the first World War II Heritage City in the United States. President Donald Trump is expected to make the… -
Fifty years ago, the insecticide DDT nearly wiped out pelicans. Today, four- to five-thousand pairs nest in North Carolina – about a quarter of them on...
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Businesses are slowly and carefully starting to open. At Costco in Wilmington, which opened for just a few hours yesterday, shoppers went in 200 at a...
