Welcome back to The Assembly’s Courts newsletter. We hope you had a wonderful and relaxing holiday season. Here’s to 2024. 

Also, one programming note. You’ll see a few new names here this year, as a few other Assembly reporters and contributors will be helping with this newsletter. As always, send any tips or ideas to courts@theassemblync.com […]

Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.

Anne Blythe, a former reporter for The News & Observer, has reported on courts, criminal justice, and an array of topics in North Carolina for more than three decades.

Carli Brosseau is a K-12 education reporter for The Assembly. She previously worked at The News & Observer, where she was an investigative reporter and a ProPublica Local Reporting Network fellow.