Catherine Welch
Catherine Welch is news director at Rhode Island Public Radio. Before her move to Rhode Island in 2010, Catherine was news director at WHQR in Wilmington, NC. She was also news director at KBIA in Columbia, MO where she was a faculty member at the University Of Missouri School Of Journalism. Catherine has won several regional Edward R. Murrow awards and awards from the Public Radio News Directors Inc., New England AP, North Carolina Press Association, Missouri Press Association, and Missouri Broadcasters Association.
Now that she manages a full newsroom she files less regularly for NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition. In 2009 she was part of an NPR series on America’s Battalion out of Camp Lejeune, NC following Marine families during the battalion’s deployment to southern Afghanistan. And because Wilmington was the national test market for the digital television conversion, she became a quasi-expert on DTV, filing stories for NPR on the topic.
Catherine got her start in radio at her family’s radio station in Florida with her weekly jazz show "Catherine Keeping You Company." Her very first interview was with Cab Calloway, and it remains the strangest one she’s ever done. She will gladly tell you the story should you ask.
Before joining the public radio family, Catherine worked in television at KTVU in Oakland, CA and at the cable technology network formerly known as TechTV.
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The Charlotte Rescue Mission says rising construction costs have driven up the price of building its new men’s shelter.
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The program offering rent and utility assistance in Mecklenburg County will start accepting new applications in March.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is giving people a chance to weigh in at a public hearing Tuesday night on a proposed settlement with the New Indy paper mill in Catawba, South Carolina.
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The Transportation Security Administration says staff found a record-breaking number of guns in carry-on bags at North Carolina airports in 2021.
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Electric Vehicle maker Proterra is building a facility in South Carolina to make EV batteries.
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North Carolina’s first confirmed positive case of the omicron variant of COVID-19 has been identified in Charlotte.
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Masks are no longer required in Gaston County Schools starting Monday. This makes Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools the last Charlotte-area school district requiring masks.
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation says one of the first permanent traffic systems in the state is officially up and running on Interstate 85 in Mecklenburg and Gaston counties.
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North Carolina business leaders are calling for changes in child care to help stimulate the state’s economy and replenish the workforce.
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An economic impact study shows this year’s Duke’s Mayo Classic college football games brought a lot of visitors and nearly $49 million to the Charlotte region.