Will Michaels
Weekend Host/ReporterWill Michaels started his professional radio career at WUNC.
He was first an intern while studying at UNC-Chapel Hill. As a part of his internship, he worked for a semester on the daily national show, The Story with Dick Gordon. Will concentrated on radio while at college, studying under veteran NPR reporter Adam Hochberg. He began as a reporter for Carolina Connection, UNC's radio news magazine, and then became an anchor and managing editor for the program in 2009, when it was named the best college radio news program in the country by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Will came back to WUNC after graduation in 2010 as the producer for the local broadcast of Morning Edition, rising before the sun to help host Eric Hodge gather and present the news. In 2014, he produced WUNC's My Teacher series, part of the North Carolina Teacher Project. He joined the team for The State of Things later that year.
In 2016, Will became WUNC's first Daily News Producer, creating content for WUNC newscasts and periodically filling in as host for Morning Edition or All Things Considered. In 2020, Will moved from producing to reporting full time as WUNC's General Assignment Reporter.
In 2023, Will was named WUNC's Weekend Host while continuing to report on stories across North Carolina.
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At about three million years old, TIDYE-1b is like finding a two-week-old infant when compared to Earth. -
Janet Cowell says her first priority as Raleigh's new mayor will be addressing the city's shortage of affordable housing. -
The North Carolina Department of Transportation says it aims to have one lane open in each direction by Jan. 1. -
More than 6,000 North Carolina households are in FEMA-provided hotels. FEMA spokesman Darrell Habisch, based at the American Tobacco Historic District in Durham, says it's not clear how many had to move to the Triangle.
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Cary is among the local governments asking voters to approve bonds this November. The town wants $590 million for parks and recreation, and affordable housing. -
This week marks two years since five people were killed in mass shooting in Raleigh's Hedingham neighborhood. The families of the victims have filed a civil lawsuit against the alleged shooter and Hedingham's homeowners' association, claiming the HOA did not respond to complaints of rising crime in the neighborhood. -
The Alamance-Burlington School System has sworn in Aaron Fleming as its new superintendent. Fleming has served as the superintendent of Harnett County Schools for the past seven years, and was previously an education policy advisor to state House Speaker Tim Moore. -
Black student enrollment dropped significantly at UNC-Chapel Hill following last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision to end race-based affirmative action policies. -
The North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts identified Halifax County as a legal desert in northeastern North Carolina, with only about one attorney for every 1,000 people. This year, the office created a new group of public defenders there. WUNC's Will Michaels spoke with Tonza Ruffin, the lead public defender in District 7, about her goals for the new office. -
The number of mpox cases, formerly known as monkeypox, is low in North Carolina. But a different, more contagious, type of the virus continues to spread in other parts of the world. A UNC doctor explains the differences between the two and how to mitigate the spread of the one that’s already here.
