Catherine Welch
Catherine Welch is news director at Rhode Island Public Radio. Before her move to Rhode Island in 2010, Catherine was news director at WHQR in Wilmington, NC. She was also news director at KBIA in Columbia, MO where she was a faculty member at the University Of Missouri School Of Journalism. Catherine has won several regional Edward R. Murrow awards and awards from the Public Radio News Directors Inc., New England AP, North Carolina Press Association, Missouri Press Association, and Missouri Broadcasters Association.
Now that she manages a full newsroom she files less regularly for NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition. In 2009 she was part of an NPR series on America’s Battalion out of Camp Lejeune, NC following Marine families during the battalion’s deployment to southern Afghanistan. And because Wilmington was the national test market for the digital television conversion, she became a quasi-expert on DTV, filing stories for NPR on the topic.
Catherine got her start in radio at her family’s radio station in Florida with her weekly jazz show "Catherine Keeping You Company." Her very first interview was with Cab Calloway, and it remains the strangest one she’s ever done. She will gladly tell you the story should you ask.
Before joining the public radio family, Catherine worked in television at KTVU in Oakland, CA and at the cable technology network formerly known as TechTV.
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After a rise before the Memorial Day weekend, gas prices in Florida are expected to drop. AAA says oil prices are dropping and gas is expected to…
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The University of Central Florida and Oregon Health & Science University have launched the first clinical trial for a 3D-printed prosthetic arm for...
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Pulse nightclub gunman Omar Mateen's father was an informant for the FBI. The defense for Mateen's widow, Noor Salman, filed a motion seeking to have the case dismissed or declared a mistrial due to this information. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with WMFE news director Catherine Welch about this development.
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All this week, Health News Florida partner station WMFE is looking into Florida’s public records as a way to highlight Sunshine Week. Today WMFE host...
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Sanford Burnham will return millions of dollars to the state after failing to meet requirements laid out in an incentive deal.
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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson says the state needs to make sure its monitoring nursing homes. Eight residents died in a sweltering south Florida nursing home…
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Seminole County is rolling out an app that acts as a panic button for school employees in an emergency.With a tap of the app, an alert can be sent…
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Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam is warning drivers about credit card skimmers at the pump. Skimmers often cover right over the slot where drivers…
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Sea World has welcomed its first baby walrus.The baby walrus was born June 3rd, and it’s the first calf for mom Kaboodle.Sea World veterinary teams are…
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Florida poet laureate Peter Meinke wrote a poem marking one year since a gunman opened fire in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando killing 49 people and…
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Bad meat is the apparent cause of death for a greyhound at the Seminole-Orlando Kennel Club. The meat also made 72 other greyhounds sick.
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A handful of Pulse survivors have teamed up with One Blood to promote blood donations.One Blood says it took 441 units to treat Pulse victims.Jeff Xavier…