Laura Lee
News DirectorLaura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina. Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Email: llee@bpr.org
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President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but they two leaders offered little indication of policies for what Trump had...
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The battle between the executive and judicial branches continues, both at the state and national levels. A three-judge panel halted the state Senate...
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The U.S. Senate convened early this morning to move forward on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. In a rare move, Senator...
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The first weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency have been marked by a slew of controversial executive orders prompting sweeping policy changes on...
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ELIZABETH CITY — In the next few days, the last of an array of 104 wind turbines is expected to be hooked into the electrical grid, and North Carolina's...
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order ordering a wall along the 2,000 mile Mexican border. He claims Mexico will pay for it, but Mexican...
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In his first five days in office, President Donald Trump has signed several executive orders, including a directive to build a wal l on the Mexican...
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Legislators filed dozens of bills on the first day back since session officially opened, including a proposal to develop a plan to change how the state...
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As a teenager in Jamaica, Tashni Dubroy struggled to understand chemistry. But after a breakthrough moment in her high school chemistry class, she fell...
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Note: this program is a rebroadcast from December 15, 2016. President Obama signed legislation this week allocating $1 billion dollars to address the...