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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE: Updates, resources, and context

Ben Schachtman Joining HQR News as Managing Editor

We are pleased to announce that Ben Schachtman, currently the Managing Editor of Port City Daily, will move into the newly created position of Managing Editor at WHQR, on October 15th, 2020. 

Schachtman has been a guest on several occasions on WHQR's CoastLine, hosted by Rachel Lewis Hilburn. Of his new position, Schachtman says, “I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with the WHQR team in the past and I’m looking forward to joining the newsroom as Managing Editor. Public media has never been more important, so I’m honored and excited to help lead this next chapter for WHQR.”

You can read Ben's full bio here

Mary Bradley moved to Wilmington from Los Angeles, CA in May 2007 with her husband Frank and twin baby daughters, Maggie and Kate. In California, Mary had been Drive Director and the producer of Elvis Mitchell's nationally syndicated public radio interview program "The Treatment" for public radio station KCRW for ten years. Mary was raised in Rhode Island and graduated from Boston University. Mary recently served as President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Cape Fear Chapter.