WUNC Awards

WUNC's Military Reporter Jay Price took home top honors for Nationally Edited Feature while Me & My Muslim Friends and Great Grief were also recognized.

North Carolina Public Radio has been awarded three Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for the Embodied podcast, The Lives Lost series, and reporting on climate change's impact on marsh birds.

WUNC's Military Reporter Jay Price was awarded first place for Radio Feature and Human Interest Story and Embodied was awarded second place for Information Podcast.

Jazz singer Nnenna Freelon and architect Phil Freelon had a love story that spanned four decades…until a rare illness threatened their happiness. Soon, Nnenna was living with a new companion: Grief. Join her on a walk through a journey of love and loss with stops along the way for original music and stories. WUNC and Great Grief present: A Love Supreme.

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 sexual pleasure to vasectomies to body hair — out into the light to examine them with journalistic curiosity. This entry is a montage of three episodes from 2021: "Accepted: Why Feeling Neutral About Your Body Can Be A Good Thing"; "Disabled: Dating And Sex In The Body You Have"; and "Feminized: Aligning Your Inner And Outer Selves."

Host Anita Rao talks with Dia Dynasty, a Chinese-American professional dominatrix and Elizabeth Nolan Brown, a sex and technology journalist, about the Atlanta spa shootings and the implications they have for Asian American sex workers and the industry as a whole. This interview was recorded live on March 26, 2021.

This is WUNC's entry into the Overall Excellence Category for content broadcast in 2021.

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 sexual pleasure to vasectomies to body hair — out into the light to examine them with journalistic curiosity. This entry is a montage of five episodes from 2021: Accepted, Snipped, Disabled, Incarcerated and Feminized.