About WUNC
About WUNC
North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC 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 WUNC newsroom and studios, NPR, APM, PRX, WNYC, BBC World Service and more.
Hear North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC 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 WUNC 24/7 online, on our app, on your smart speaker and more.
WUNC Vision
Inspire all of North Carolina to engage with journalism and culture, enriching lives and connecting communities.
WUNC Mission
WUNC 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.
WUNC 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.
WUNC Community Representation Statement
WUNC’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, WUNC is a media outlet that celebrates the diversity of our community on-air, online and in the workplace. WUNC 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 diverse representation on all hiring committees and recruitment through job fairs, a wide and diverse range of associations, and outreach to local HBCUs.
WUNC’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.
WUNC has an internal I.D.E.A. (Inclusion Diversity Equity Accountability) committee dedicated to strategically fulfilling the station’s community representation goals. The committee focuses on a variety of activities, which have ranged from staff trainings and discussion groups to hosting a series of community forums.
WUNC operates across half of North Carolina’s 100 counties and shares content with other media outlets. In 2023 alone, WUNC shared more than 700 stories with public radio stations in North Carolina and beyond.
WUNC’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, The Broadside podcast, which examines one story happening in the heart of the American South each week, and the podcast Me & My Muslim Friends, which discusses the diverse spectrum of Muslim identity.
Additionally, WUNC 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, WUNC’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, WUNC 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. Also, Scorched Workers examines the impact of rising heat on outdoor workers and explores the role worker protections is having in this year’s race for North Carolina’s labor commissioner. 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.
WUNC Donor Information Security Procedures
Donor privacy and security is a top priority for WUNC Radio. Gifts received during on-air pledge drives are recorded manually by WUNC staff and volunteers who are closely supervised by WUNC 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 WUNC's database manager.
WUNC Donor List and E-mail Subscriber Privacy Policy
WUNC-FM has always had a policy of absolute donor confidentiality. WUNC-FM has never shared its donor or e-mail lists with any organization. WUNC-FM will never share its donor or e-mail lists with any organization.
WUNC-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 WUNC-FM or to join a WUNC mailing list is a fundamentally private decision. WUNC-FM is committed to keeping that decision private.
Contact WUNC
WUNC-FM
120 Friday Center Drive
Chapel Hill NC 27517
Telephone: (919) 445.9150
1.800.962.9862
(919) 966.5955 (fax)
email: WUNC@wunc.org
WUNC Community Discussion Rules
Our rules for participating in WUNC 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.
