Awards

WUNC received regional recognition for its work in 2022. North Carolina Public Radio was honored with five Green Eyeshade Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) on July 13.

Host Anita Rao reconnects with the woman who changed her thinking on incarceration: her college thesis adviser Ashley Lucas. Ashley, a professor of theatre and drama at the University of Michigan, reflects on her father's 20-year prison sentence and the untold stories of families navigating incarceration from the outside.

North Carolina Public Radio receives top national and regional honors for its work in 2022.

An excerpt from our radio episode that aired on October 14, 2022, for the "Interview" category in the 2023 PMJA award contest.

Embodied is a weekly podcast in which host and creator Anita Rao is on a mission to figure out what happens when we bring taboo topics — from estrangement to erotic photography — into the light to examine them with journalistic curiosity. Embodied embraces a feminist lens on subjects that largely impact women and genderqueer people and manifests the philosophy that the personal is political. This entry is a montage of five episodes from 2022: Estranged, Plucked, Secured, Reimagined and Posed.