Attack shifted Raleigh radio newsroom into ’emergency mode’

In a radio station newsroom, 8:45 a.m. typically represents a point of limbo. Newscasts for morning-drive programs are winding down, and anchor/reporters are starting work on new stories to compile and write for the rest of the day. As assignment editor for Raleigh’s AM 680 WPTF, I was placing and planning phone calls, shuffling Associated...