James Morrison
ReporterJames Morrison is a national award-winning broadcast reporter with more than seven years experience working in radio and podcasts. His work has been featured on NPR, Marketplace, Here & Now and multiple other radio outlets and podcasts. His reporting focuses on environmental and health issues, with a focus on the opioid epidemic and sustainable food systems. He was recognized with a national award for a story he reported for NPR on locally-sourced oyster farming. He also received a national award for his daily news coverage of firefighters killed in the line of duty. A podcast he produced about the fall of Saigon during the Vietnam War was accepted into the Hearsay International Audio Arts Festival.
Morrison graduated from Sacramento State University with a degree in government-journalism and began his career as a news intern at Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, California. He worked at CPR as a reporter and producer for six years before moving to Delaware Public Media to become its afternoon news anchor. He鈥檚 currently a freelance reporter in North Carolina.
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The federal government said it will finally pay a debt it has owed the state since Franklin D. Roosevelt was president.The Department of the Interior鈥� -
A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine Friday finds that infants whose mothers get a Tetanus, Diphtheria, Acellular Pertussis鈥� -
A Raleigh mother is raising money to open a high school in Wake County designed specifically for students overcoming addiction. The Wake Monarch Academy鈥� -
Leaders of the North Carolina legislature said a proposal to change the state's business incentive program is not connected to rumors of Apple opening a鈥� -
Thousands of North Carolina educators mounted a historic demonstration outside the state Capitol Wednesday as lawmakers arrived for the start of a short鈥� -
A law in North Carolina that was written to make moving Confederate monuments nearly impossible will soon get its first true test.The North Carolina鈥� -
Durham is getting a change in leadership in both law enforcement and criminal justice. Former Hillsborough Police Chief Clarence Birkhead beat incumbent鈥� -
A legal battle over the destruction of a Confederate monument in Downtown Durham is over, but the political fallout lingers.Durham County Sheriff Mike鈥� -
North Carolina isn't rich in coal, natural gas or oil, but it has more hogs than nearly any other state. And for years, scientists and farmers have been trying to turn swine biogas into electricity. -
North Carolina isn鈥檛 rich in coal, natural gas or oil deposits, but it has more hogs than nearly any other state. And for many years, people have been鈥�
