Amy Jeffries
Daily News EditorAmy is the Daily News Editor at WUNC in Chapel Hill where she manages day-to-day coverage of everything from gerrymandering to rogue emus.
She was most recently the editorial hand behind the Kansas News Service’s daily coverage of health, education, and state politics and the award-winning podcast, My Fellow Kansans.
Ahead of the launch of the Kansas News Service, Amy led a team of reporters collaborating on coverage of the 2016 elections in Kansas.
A Connecticut Yankee at home in the South, she majored in philosophy, of course, at Wesleyan University and got her master's in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.
Previously, she headed the WRKF newsroom in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where politics is a favored sport along with LSU athletics. She still cheers for the Tigers, though she has also become a fan of the Kansas City Royals, and is now following the Durham Bulls.
She has covered art in suburbia, striking public sector workers in South Africa, and the aftermath of hurricanes along the Gulf Coast.
She started her career in journalism at WNPR in Hartford, Connecticut and has edited and reported for Patch.com, GlobalPost, and the Associated Press.
Amy Jeffries worked at WUNC from August 2019 to August 2021.
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Orange County will reinstate its indoor countywide mask mandate effective 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 11. The mandate will apply to anyone 2 years and older, regardless of vaccination status. -
The CDC says everyone in schools should be wearing a mask to guard against the spread of COVID-19 — especially with the highly contagious delta variant circulating and the unknowns that it brings. Since a statewide mask mandate expired, local school boards are making their own decisions about the rules for their students and staff when classes start up again. -
The number of COVID-19 vaccinations administered in North Carolina each week has been on a fairly steady decline since April. Just 45% of the total population has received at least one shot, including 55% of North Carolina adults. That's far off President Joe Biden's target of 70% of adults by July 4. -
On Monday afternoon, mourners filed into the Fountain of Life Church in Elizabeth City, N.C. to remember the life of Andrew Brown Jr., the 42-year-old Black man killed last month by Pasquotank Sheriff’s deputies as they were serving drug-related search and arrest warrants. -
State officials announced a new executive order that eases COVID-related restrictions on businesses and gatherings. The changes come into effect Friday at 5 p.m. -
The state is expanding eligibility for vaccines to people with medical conditions that put them at high risk from COVID-19 on March 17 — a week sooner than previously planned. -
Governor Roy Cooper says he will ease some restrictions designed to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Starting Friday, a nightly curfew will be lifted… -
In a public briefing on Tuesday, Democratic Governor Roy Cooper strongly encouraged all schools in the state to offer some form of in-person learning for… -
A 30-bed emergency field hospital is being set up and staffed in Lenoir to deal with an overflow of COVID-19 patients in the region.Boone-based… -
Updated at 6:10 p.m.Governor Roy Cooper announced Tuesday that North Carolina could receive a limited supply of a COVID-19 vaccine in as soon as two…
