Communication is everything. Who in Charlotte can afford it? And who can afford to do it badly?
Charlotte has about seven PR pros for every journalist. The gap between who can design their message and who can survive a bad one shapes everything you know about this city.
How Gene Woods Runs
The Advocate Health CEO has taken Charlotte’s community hospital and turned it into the nation’s third-largest nonprofit health system. But it hasn’t come without criticism. At $25 million a year and in the middle of a fight over WakeMed, he may be the most consequential — and questioned — leader in modern Charlotte.