How Team WRAL Raced for a Cure

Jodi Glusco

A number of CBC employees, their family and friends ran or walked the 2016 Triangle Komen Race for the Cure with Team WRAL on Saturday, June 11.  The venue moved to the Frontier in RTP, but CBC’ers remained steadfast in their support. The devotion of these staffers to the Race and its cause is proof […]

Indy Week Best of the Triangle 2016 Nods for CBC

Indy Week Best of the Triangle 2016

Independent Weekly has released their 2016 Best of the Triangle, and CBC entities and personalities have made the list.  With a new voting process this year, Indy Week says that the winners are more reflective than ever of their readers’ top choices. “Between the two rounds of our Best of the Triangle contest, we logged […]

New WRAL.com Feature Brings Lawmaker Details into Focus

N.C. Legislative Building entrance

WRAL.com Public Records Researcher/Reporter Tyler Dukes introduced a new WRAL.com tool on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.  Here is the article he wrote about the new feature that helps WRAL viewers and visitors easily find more about state lawmakers: Whether they’re convened on Jones Street or not, the 170 members of the North Carolina General Assembly generate a lot […]

The On-Ramp to the Information Highway!

Happy Valley mousepad

1. What year did WRAL launch its website? a) 1994 b) 1995 c) 1996 d) 1997 2. What was the name of the original website? a) WRALnews.com b) WRAL.OnLine c) WRALinfo.com d) CBCWRAL.com 3. The original homepage featured an easy to navigate map. Visitors could click a drawing of a satellite truck for news, the […]

WRAL-TV and CBC Host Leadership Triangle Regional Class in April

Leadership Triangle at CBC

Capitol Broadcasting and WRAL-TV hosted the 2016 Leadership Triangle Regional Class on Tuesday, April 16, 2016, talking to the group about broadcasting, the workings of the television station, as well as the history and mission of CBC. WRAL-TV Anchor/Reporter Debra Morgan coordinated the day-long event, pulling in WRAL-TV, WRAL.com and FOX 50 staffers to talk […]

From WRAL to Harvard: Dukes Selected as Nieman Fellow

Tyler Dukes

WRAL.com Public Records Researcher/Reporter Tyler Dukes has been been selected as a Nieman Fellow to work and study at Harvard in the 2016-17 school year, a prestigious honor.  He will be one of 24 journalists, half from the U.S. and half from abroad, in the program.  The participants will each work on an individual project. […]

Hives Cause Big Buzz at CBC

CBC bee swarm

Recently CBC was abuzz with activity, and not because of a breaking news story or peacocks at the station.  A swarm of bees from the Hive 5 hives decided to spread out and create their own new home on the side of the building. We checked in with our resident bee expert, Bee Downtown Founder […]

A Bright Future for Broadcasting: CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship 2016

2016 CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship

Another CBC-UNC Diversity Fellowship is in the books! A dozen students from across the country took part in the five-day journalism intensive program to prepare them for future broadcast media careers. The students represented the University of Southern California, Suffolk University, Samford University, Loyola University, the University of Maryland, Boston University, Northwestern University, North Carolina […]

WRAL Reporter Wins NC Open Government Award

Tyler Dukes

WRAL reporter Tyler Dukes was honored with a journalism award Monday, March 14, 2016, at the North Carolina Open Government Coalition’s annual Sunshine Day event, which celebrates government transparency. Dukes was recognized for his efforts to make thousands of UNC academic fraud records more accessible to the public and for his reporting on the death […]

WRAL.com’s Hanrahan Comes Full Circle with Garth Brooks

Kathy Hanrahan & Garth Brooks

NMG Out & About Editor Kathy Hanrahan loves photographing concerts, and she recently got to meet the man that started it all:  Garth Brooks.  When the country singer came to the Triangle on Friday, March 11, 2016, Hanrahan was there.  She got to interview Brooks and his wife, Trisha Yearwood, for WRAL.com’s Out & About and […]