
Rachel McCarthy
Producer, "Due South"Rachel McCarthy is a producer for "Due South." She previously worked at ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ as a producer for "The Story with Dick Gordon." More recently, Rachel was podcast managing editor at Capitol Broadcasting Company where she developed narrative series and edited a daily podcast. She also worked at "The Double Shift" podcast as supervising producer. Rachel learned about audio storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Prior to working in audio journalism, she was a research assistant at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.
Rachel feels lucky to live close enough to the American Tobacco Historic District in Durham that she can walk or bike (depending on how late she is) to work. Some of her favorite things to do include hosting impromptu gatherings at her home and hanging out on her front porch.
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With no end in sight to the affordable housing shortage, renters, buyers, and developers are exploring new ways to create places to call home. Axios reporters Zachery Eanes and Brianna Crane talk with Due South's Jeff Tiberii about "co-buying" and "co-living."
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On this week's North Carolina News Roundup, Gov. Stein's State of the State address and House Speaker Destin Hall's response, the NC Senate votes to ban DEI in public schools, and an ACC men's basketball tournament update from Charlotte. Plus, how USDA grant freezes are impacting a Warren County farm.
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Due South's Leoneda Inge talks to NC State University professor Lincoln Larson about how job cuts at federal agencies can impact spring and summer travel, tourism dollars, and protected ecosystems in North Carolina.
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From university funding to DEI to deportation policy to Medicaid, a panel of ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ reporters looks at how Trump 2.0 affects North Carolina and the people who call our state home.
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NC A&T professor Leah Barlow made a TikTok for the 35 students in her Intro to African American Studies class. It ended up reaching millions and inspired an online network of Black educators providing free lectures called “HillmanTok.â€
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Due South delves into postpartum physical and mental health in three conversations.
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Former News & Observer political columnist Rob Christensen talks with Leoneda Inge about his new book, Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century.
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A scholar, an activist, and a poet talk about our state's history of racial terror, and the reverberations of that past in the present.
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Mediterranean Deli owner Jamil Kadoura talks to Due South's Leoneda Inge about finding the resolve to rebuild after the fire that devastated the popular Chapel Hill restaurant in July 2023.
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This week on the NC News Roundup: the winter storm left its mark; U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis takes a stand; the latest on funding for Helene recovery; and fears of deportation loom.