Elizabeth Baier
Elizabeth “Liz” Baier is WUNC’s Digital News Editor. She joined the station in May 2016 after eight year of reporting for Minnesota Public Radio News where she covered everything from demographic changes in rural America, agriculture, the environment and health care. Prior to that, Liz worked for six years as a newspaper reporter in South Florida, both at the Miami Herald and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Born in Chicago to a Colombian mother and German father, Baier’s background inspires her to find stories that introduce listeners and readers to new places and compelling characters. She studied journalism and international relations at the University of Miami and received a certificate in Contemporary Latin American Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago.
In 2006, she fell in love with multimedia storytelling. That’s one of the reasons she landed in public radio. When she’s not looking for a good story, she travels, hikes, reads and attempts to cook new recipes. And she likes to walk. In 2014, she completed the 500-mile Camino de Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage in northern Spain.
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Updated at 10:56 a.m., September 8, 2017 The UNC Board of Governors has passed a resolution that bans university-based centers from filing lawsuits. The...
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Updated 5:13 p.m., August 18, 2017 Several thousand people marched in downtown Durham in a demonstration against racism on Friday afternoon.
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Updated 6:48 p.m. 3/30/2017 North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has signed a compromise measure to repeal House Bill 2, the controversial law that limits...
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State lawmakers are making another attempt to repeal House Bill 2, the controversial state law passed last year that requires people to use the public...
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Updated at 10:45 p.m. Jan. 3, 2017 A Rolesville High School student on Tuesday posted a video to social media of a classmate being slammed to the ground...
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A day after state officials failed to repeal North Carolina's House Bill 2, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts tells WUNC city officials do not have...
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North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday failed to repeal the so-called “bathroom bill” after hours of bitter political debate at the General Assembly in...
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State lawmakers will meet today for a special legislative session to consider repealing House Bill 2, the controversial state law that requires people...
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It took 28 days. Following weeks of unfounded voter fraud allegations, conspiracy theories that the legislature could intervene in the outcome, and...
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Since she was a child, Jenni Koontz has taken an interest in photography. “I always used film cameras until my freshman year of college,” said Koontz,...