Southern Dialect News Today

The Southern accent could be fading away--or at least changing. That's what linguists are learning as they track changes to accents in North Carolina.

Editor Bill Church says his wife’s native accent from the Pacific Northwest makes it hard for folks to know where she’s from. North Carolinians don’t have that problem.

If you were to hear someone talking about the old Nashville sound, you'd probably assume they were referring to the roots of country music. One of our own here at NewsChannel 5 has taken an interest in a different Nashville sound. He's asking where it went.

Political editor Katharine Murphy and reporter Naaman Zhou honoured at journalism awards, while Samantha Maiden takes out Gold Walkley