Dave DeWitt
Dave DeWitt is WUNC's Feature News Editor. As an editor, reporter, and producer he's covered politics, environment, education, sports, and a wide range of other topics.
Dave is also the founding host of "Tested," WUNC's first news podcast.
He has filed stories for NPR’s news magazines as well as Marketplace and Only A Game. He formerly worked in college athletics, college admissions, and with the Tar Heel Sports Network. In 2001, he wrote the non-fiction book "True Blue".
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Governor Roy Cooper has created a bi-partisan advisory commission that will offer recommendations on how to diversify North Carolina’s public university governing boards. -
A day after he announced his retirement, Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski explained why he's leaving the game he's dominated for four decades. Coach K will retire after the upcoming season.
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According to the indictment, Robin Hayes and associates promised "millions of dollars of contributions" for "official actions" favorable to the Global Bankers Insurance Group. -
A storage failure at a coal-fired Duke Energy plant sent tens of thousands of tons of ash into a North Carolina river last year. Now, the company wants to move its stored waste to two abandoned mines. -
No state has seen as steep a drop in teacher salaries over the past few years. Legislators also halted a salary bump for teachers with master's degrees and cut a cap on class size. "Teachers are really questioning why they want to teach," says the head of a state advocacy group. -
North Carolina's new voter ID law is already facing legal challenges — one day after Governor Pat McCrory signed the bill into law. The measure ends a week of early voting and eliminates same-day registration.
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March Madness is in full swing. And the University of North Carolina is one of the 16 teams still in the mix for an NCAA men's basketball national championship. But the Tar Heels also field a second and far less successful junior varsity basketball team.
