
Gurnal Scott
Assistant News DirectorGurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at News/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' NewsRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to News Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal’s reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas.
Gurnal left ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ in January 2015.
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Tobacco shop retailers are following a new law that keeps them from selling electronic cigarettes to minors. Many smokers use e-cigarettes as a…
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State Health Director Dr. Laura Gerald has resigned from that post effective immediately. A release from the Department of Health and Human Services said…
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Kieran Shanahan will step down as state public safety secretary in less than a week. Shanahan was among then-Governor-elect Pat McCrory's first cabinet…
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Some eastern North Carolinians are pleased with an aspect of the new state budget proposal. State legislators have left decisions on whether to charge…
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State Transportation Department officials have tapped a Mt. Airy company to make repairs to the Bonner Bridge on Highway 12. The bridge in Dare County…
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Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are estimating the cost of designating special loggerhead sea turtle habitats along the Southeast coast.…
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Some North Carolina members of the U.S. House are taking sides as their chamber gets ready to take up immigration reform this week. Many House Republicans…
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State prison inmates will soon find it tougher to make home visits as their sentences wind down. Governor Pat McCrory ordered a review of the program the…
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Anthony Foxx is scheduled to be sworn in as the nation's 17th Secretary of Transportation. He stepped down from his old job as mayor of North Carolina's…
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U.S. Senator Kay Hagan was among the supporters helping to pass an immigration reform plan proposed by a bipartisan group of her colleagues. The Senate…