Wilson Sayre
Wilson Sayre was born and bred in Raleigh, N.C., home of the only real barbecue in the country (we're talking East here). She graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she studied Philosophy.
Sayre took a year off school to live in a Zen monastery in Japan and quickly realized that a life of public radio would be a bit more forgiving. Upon returning to the States, she helped launch a news program at UNC’s college-radio station, WXYC. Through error and error, she taught herself how to make radio stories.
She worked with NPR member station WUNC in Chapel Hill, interning for The Story with Dick Gordon. Then she went on to help to run WUNC's Youth Radio Institute, teaching at-risk teenagers how to make radio.
Sayre likes to keep chickens, pickle okra and make sound collages.
Sayre initially came down to WLRN in 2013 for a reporting fellowship. After that, she decided she couldn't leave. She's continued her a mission to get more Miamians to wear overalls and say y'all.
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After a five and a half hour-long public comment and discussion, the city of Hollywood decided to rename streets that bear the names of Confederate icons.
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The city of Hollywood has been grappling with how to deal with some of its Confederate icons and is looking into changing streets named after...
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F lorida executed Thursday evening convicted inmate Mark Asay, breaking the state's year and a half hiatus for the death penalty. Asay was pronounced...
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Thursday night, Florida executed Mark Asay, who was declared dead at 6:22 p.m. He broke Florida’s year-and-a-half hiatus for the death penalty as the... -
While the state of Florida is set to execute the first person in more than a year and a half, 150 other Death Row inmates await new sentences. The death... -
The state of Florida is poised to execute the first person in more than a year and a half this Thursday, August 24. Mark Asay was convicted in 1988 of... -
Roughly 260 sex offenders have registered as their residence the intersection of Northwest 36th Court and 71st Street, on the edge of Hialeah and Miami.... -
Miami may soon have a large pot of money to pay for infrastructure reinforcements in the face of rising seas. Thursday, in a narrow vote, the city of... -
Florida has one of the largest prison populations in the U.S. As of 2016, there were 99,000 people incarcerated in the state. The number peaked in 2011... -
There’s more unrest at Miami International Airport. More than 300 food workers have filed complaints alleging their employers have been underpaying them...
