Elizabeth Baier
Elizabeth “Liz” Baier is WUNC’s Digital News Editor. She joined the station in May 2016 after eight year of reporting for Minnesota Public Radio News where she covered everything from demographic changes in rural America, agriculture, the environment and health care. Prior to that, Liz worked for six years as a newspaper reporter in South Florida, both at the Miami Herald and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Born in Chicago to a Colombian mother and German father, Baier’s background inspires her to find stories that introduce listeners and readers to new places and compelling characters. She studied journalism and international relations at the University of Miami and received a certificate in Contemporary Latin American Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago.
In 2006, she fell in love with multimedia storytelling. That’s one of the reasons she landed in public radio. When she’s not looking for a good story, she travels, hikes, reads and attempts to cook new recipes. And she likes to walk. In 2014, she completed the 500-mile Camino de Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage in northern Spain.
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The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill has a new interim chancellor.
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Updated 2:45 p.m. The University of North Carolina's Board of Governors on Tuesday voted to make UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt's resignation...
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The Confederate statue known as "Silent Sam" had stood on the main campus quad in Chapel Hill from 1913 until it was torn down by protesters in August 2018.
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Updated at 8:30 p.m. North Carolina's flagship public university plans to remove the pedestal where a now-toppled Confederate statue once stood on a...
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Updated 3:20 p.m. The board overseeing North Carolina's public universities has rejected the UNC Trustees' plan for a center to house a Confederate...
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Updated 1:10 p.m. Officials with the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees have approved a plan to recommend a new on-campus history center to house Silent...
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Updated at 4:20 p.m. | Sept. 12, 2018 People who thought they were relatively safe from the onslaught of Hurricane Florence began boarding up and...
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Updated 8:30 a.m. | August 31, 2018 The torn-down Silent Sam monument was the site of dueling protests Thursday night. About 50 members of a neo...
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Updated 5:49 p.m., October 13, 2017 An NCAA infractions committee decided it will not punish UNC as it relates to "paper courses" attended by students,...
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Updated 12:07 p.m., September 11, 2017 Weakening Tropical Storm Irma will bump into a high pressure system in North Carolina later Monday, bringing some...