Mitch Northam
Mitchell Northam is a Digital Producer for WUNC. He was born in Iceland, but grew up eating blue crabs and scrapple on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. In addition to working at the Delmarva Daily Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, his work has also been featured at SB Nation, the Orlando Sentinel, NCAA.com, Sports Illustrated and SLAM Magazine. He is a graduate of Salisbury University and has won awards from the MD-DC Press Association and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
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If the North Carolina Tar Heels’ men’s basketball team completes a regular season sweep of Duke on Saturday, don’t expect to see a party in downtown... -
Updated at 6:50 p.m. on Feb. 17, 2021 Freezing rain is expected across central North Carolina starting overnight Wednesday. Duke Energy says the winter... -
Updated at 7 p.m. on Feb. 16, 2021. Forecasters have determined it was an EF3 tornado that touched down in Brunswick County last night, killing three... -
The U.S. Senate acquitted former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday of inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol, ending his impeachment trial. The final... -
After this spring, baseball will no longer be played at North Carolina Central University. The historically Black university in Durham announced... -
The Durham City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Tuesday that aims to protect workers from discrimination against hairstyles such as braids,...
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In one of his final acts as President of the United States, Donald Trump granted 73 pardons and commuted 70 sentences early Wednesday morning. One of... -
Updated: Jan. 14, 2021. 12:10 p.m. Hillsborough is the first North Carolina municipality to pass an ordinance to protect its LGBTQ residents from... -
Updated at 11:45 a.m. All but one of North Carolina's Republican delegates to the U.S. House had said publicly that they planned to object to electoral... -
According to data tracked by WUNC, at least 24 Confederate monuments have been removed (or have been approved for removal) in North Carolina since May 25, 2020; the day that George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Only Virginia has removed more monuments since Floyd's death.
