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Chicago's Joe Vitacco is a freelance embalmer. He works out of his trunk, driving from funeral home to funeral home, plying his trade. He's lasted longer than most in the business, and over a 40-year career, he's worked on 40,000 bodies. Vitacco tells his story to Matt Ozug.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is moving its headquarters away from Greensboro after 70 years. It will relocate to Charlotte.

The pandemic has put some workplace trends into overdrive. Some employers are converting full-time jobs into freelance positions. In some white-collar occupations, freelancing may become the norm.

NPR said that it has discovered that a longtime freelance contributor had reused sound bites in more than two dozen reports that aired from 2011 until recently.

The ACC Coastal Division is going away after this season. That's a welcome development for reporters who cover the Atlantic Coast Conference, who have almost always been wrong when it comes to picking a winner in the division.

After we introduced a name for that annoying email practice of strategically cc-ing a manager to gain an upper hand, you responded with an avalanche of email. Here's a sample of your thoughts.

The Seminoles are pushing to exit the ACC and explore a more lucrative landing spot, potentially in the Big Ten, while the ACC is seeking to penalize the university.

One in five workers is a contract worker, according to a new NPR/Marist poll. Within a decade, contractors and freelancers could make up half of the workforce, a shift with far-reaching implications.

More than 10 percent of her reports reused sound bites.

The Atlantic Coast Conference decided to pull many post-season tournaments out of North Carolina this season due to a controversial state law. This move follows the NCAA decision to remove college championship games out of the state.