Emily McCord
Emily joined WFDD in 2014. It's a homecoming after 11 years working in public radio for stations in colder climates. She graduated from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro in 2003, where she earned her degree in music. She moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where she saw an advertisement on the side of a bus for the local station, WFIU, and began volunteering. That turned into a full time gig, where Emily did everything from producing fund drives, co-hosting a classical music quiz show, and handling station relations. In 2007, Emily accepted a position at WYSO in Yellow Springs, Ohio, as the host of All Things Considered. It was there that Emily learned how to be a reporter. Her stories won state and national awards and were regularly featured on NPR. Emily became News Director at WYSO in 2011.
Now, she's back in North Carolina and happily leading the news team at WFDD. She lives in Winston-Salem with her husband and two children.
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The three suspects arrested in the shooting and killing of a Greensboro police officer appeared in court Tuesday. Sergeant Philip Dale Nix was killed Saturday night. He was off duty when he was shot after intervening in a crime that was taking place at a Sheetz on Sandy Ridge Road. -
A man who claimed innocence in connection with a 1995 brutal assault in Winston-Salem has died. Kalvin Michael Smith was at the center of a racially divisive case that was one of the region’s most prominent allegations of wrongful conviction. -
A banner celebrating Pride month was vandalized in Winston-Salem, which city officials call a hate crime. The banner was discovered cut in half early… -
A man who claimed innocence in connection with a 1995 brutal assault in Winston-Salem pled guilty Thursday to interfering with an electronic monitoring… -
North Carolina officials are readying for the remnants of Hurricane Ian and asking residents to keep a close watch on the weather. A tropical storm… -
At a press conference Sunday, Governor Cooper said travel is treacherous and power outages are already causing problems across the state. In some… -
A winter weather warning has been issued for the Triad and High Country, which could bring some snow and ice, depending on the region and the track of the… -
With classes back in session, more and more parents are getting word that their child has been exposed to COVID-19 at school. 277 cases have been reported… -
When I first met investigative reporter Mandy Locke in a lunch line at a conference, we didn't know that just over a year later, we would be embarking on… -
A man who was recently released from prison after serving 20 years in connection with a brutal assault in Winston-Salem was shot Friday night. Smith, now…
