About ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾
About ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾
North Carolina Public Radio – ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ is your home for local, national, and international news and culture in the Triangle and region. Our diverse and community-supported programming comes from the ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ newsroom and studios, NPR, APM, PRX, WNYC, BBC World Service and more.
Hear North Carolina Public Radio – ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ on terrestrial radio at 91.5 FM in the Triangle, 88.9 FM in Manteo and Outer Banks coastal communities, 91.9 FM in Fayetteville, 91.1 FM in the Welcome area south of Winston-Salem, and 90.9 FM in Rocky Mount. See our coverage map below.
Stream ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ 24/7 online, on our app, on your smart speaker and more.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Vision
Inspire all of North Carolina to engage with journalism and culture, enriching lives and connecting communities.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Mission
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ is a public media organization that informs and engages North Carolina through journalism and culture. Our mission is to provide enriching, essential news and content of the highest quality to all communities.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Direction
To better serve audiences with news products that are thoughtfully created and tactfully distributed, utilizing data to guide the way. Building more efficient and effective product and audience funnels to ensure engagement, sustainability, and business success.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Community Representation Statement
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøվ’s goal is to be connected with our community. We are committed to reflecting the communities we serve in the content we provide. By design, ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ is a media outlet that celebrates the diversity of our community on-air, online and in the workplace. ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ believes it must reflect the entire community through representation, including race, gender, disability, protected veterans, religious belief, age, nationality, sexual orientation, gender-identity, physicality, education, and socio-economic status.
The station reflects our community through a diverse staff that we continue to grow through employment and promotion opportunities to individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We continue to advance a thoughtful hiring process that includes varied representation on all hiring committees and recruitment through job fairs and a wide range of associations.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøվ’s board is appointed by the UNC Board of Trustees and reflects the mission to serve the people of North Carolina. The board includes individuals who bring a wide range of expertise and experience to the station, with backgrounds in everything from media to finance and investment to the military; reflecting the large geographical area covered by our signals and our audience.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ operates across half of North Carolina’s 100 counties and shares content with other media outlets. In 2023 alone, ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ shared more than 700 stories with public radio stations in North Carolina and beyond.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøվ’s vision is to create original programming that reflects the diversity and range of opinion in North Carolina. This is achieved through a variety of shows including: Embodied, which explores sex, relationships and health, Due South, a daily show focusing on news and southern culture from a statewide perspective, and The Broadside podcast, which examines one story happening in the heart of the American South each week.
Additionally, ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ has a significant newsroom that focuses on issues and topics that affect most North Carolinians. Through beats like education, health, military and veterans’ issues, race, class & communities, politics, and more, ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøվ’s news staff work to cover the stories that impact our community and beyond. Each beat reporter is also responsible for covering the intersection of their beat with state government policy.
Furthermore, ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ focuses on stories that reflect North Carolina and represent the communities we serve. For example, reporting projects such as Main Street NC focuses on visiting communities across the state to hear from local leaders about the positive aspects of their towns, as well as the challenges they face, from population loss to flooding to aging utility infrastructure. Scorched Workers examines the impact of rising heat on outdoor workers. And the American Homefront Project is a reporting series focused on military life and veterans issues. The dedicated reporter visits bases to chronicle how troops are working and living and talks with veterans to learn about the challenges they face. Additionally, the series has a dedicated editor working with numerous public radio stations to platform stories about veterans and veteran issues.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ has an internal staff committee dedicated to strategically fulfilling the station’s community representation and accountability goals (see outlined goals below). The committee focuses on a variety of activities, which have ranged from staff trainings and discussion groups to hosting a series of community forums.
Goals include:
Community Outreach
We place our audience at the forefront of our inclusion efforts. ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ is strategically focusing on producing events that provide contextual information around stories that matter to the communities we are in. We have created and hosted a series of community forums, developed community-centered news projects, and formed community partnerships in an effort to better integrate ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ with those we serve.
Staff belonging
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ understands that it takes dedicated journalists to produce informative, relevant, and accurate news for all communities. A central focus of the committee is ensuring our staff feels a strong sense of belonging and reflects the community we serve. Our efforts towards a strong sense of belonging include staff trainings, increasing internal communication and collaboration and regular discussion groups.
Accountability
Across ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøվ’s departments we are dedicated to holding ourselves accountable to serving all communities. We do this by diversifying and tracking the sources we use for news stories to ensure we are hearing from people in all communities.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ knows that creating an inclusive workplace requires the commitment of everyone at the organization. That’s why the committee works to hold staff accountable for implementing policies that ensure every employee feels like they belong. That includes holding senior leadership accountable for improving communication channels throughout the organization.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Donor Information Security Procedures
Donor privacy and security is a top priority for ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Radio. Gifts received during on-air pledge drives are recorded manually by ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ staff and volunteers who are closely supervised by ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ staff. The pledge information is entered into an electronic format that is loaded into a secure database. All electronic pledge submissions are encrypted, secure, and password protected. All stored credit card information is access-restricted to ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾'s database manager.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Donor List and E-mail Subscriber Privacy Policy
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾-FM has always had a policy of absolute donor confidentiality. ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾-FM has never shared its donor or e-mail lists with any organization. ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾-FM will never share its donor or e-mail lists with any organization.
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾-FM's news and informational programming make up the core of the station's public service. Any activity that undermines the credibility of such programming debases the currency of our realm; and, clearly, trading donor or e-mail lists with political organizations or partisan organizations would undermine the station's reputation for balance, fairness, and accuracy. Moreover, a listener's decision to support ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾-FM or to join a ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ mailing list is a fundamentally private decision. ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾-FM is committed to keeping that decision private.
Contact ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾-FM
120 Friday Center Drive
Chapel Hill NC 27517
Telephone: (919) 445.9150
1.800.962.9862
(919) 966.5955 (fax)
email: ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾@wunc.org
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Community Discussion Rules
for participating in ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ social networking features extends to comments posted on our Facebook page and other social media.
Job Openings
Current job openings are listed here on our website.
