Catherine Welch

News Director

Catherine came to WHQR five years ago from Columbia Missouri, where she was on faculty at the School of Journalism and news director for the university’s public radio station.

At WHQR she reports and edits news stories from the newsroom, produces the noon news program, Mid-Day Edition, puts together the afternoon newscasts, and is sometimes the local host for Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

She also files stories for NPR. Through the summer and fall of 2009 Catherine joined a team of NPR reporters covering a Marine battalion through its deployment to Afghanistan. While NPR reporters spent the deployment in Afghanistan, Catherine reported numerous stories about the families back on the home front.

Under Catherine’s leadership, WHQR News has won numerous awards including RTNDA Edward R. Murrow awards and North Carolina Associated Press awards.