Alumni Work

Alumni Highlights: Kiley Price (’19)

Posted on May 1, 2024

Kiley Price (’19) was recently hired as a reporter at Inside Climate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom that provides essential reporting and analysis on climate change, energy and the environment. Along with covering longer stories, she writes the outlet’s newsletter “Today’s Climate,” which explores the most pressing environmental news each week. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Time Magazine, Live Science, Mongabay, Scientific American and more. In 2023, Kiley earned her master’s degree in science journalism from NewRead More→

Alumna Kasha Patel Featured in Washington Post

Posted on February 25, 2019

Former Journalism minor Kasha Patel was featured in the Washington Post‘s “D.C. Dream Days,” where she describes her Dream Day in the city of Washington, D.C. Patel is a science writer and stand-up comedian, and both of those interests appear in her ideal day. As she tells writer Thomas Floyd, “The premise of my joke is often like the lead or headline of my story — it has to be short, succinct and understandable.” Read more about Patel’s Dream DayRead More→

Christina Thompson (’18) Reflects on Covering Hurricane Florence

Posted on December 3, 2018

I’ve wanted to work in the news for as long as I can remember. When I was 15 years old, I applied and auditioned for a reporting job on the show Teen Kids News in New York. I ended up getting it, and from there, this path became even more solidified for me. In college, I interned for a sports production company for the Olympics in London, CBS This Morning in New York City, and WGHP Fox 8 in HighRead More→

Amber Burton (’15) at WSJ

Posted on December 3, 2018

The A-hed is WSJ’s daily news feature. Often the funny news of the day, the feature balances the day’s business news with common (and at times, not so common) curiosities and eccentricities. As most stories do, my A-hed grew out of a conversation with a co-worker. We were talking about office plants and I made the statement “succulents are the new chia pet.” This was followed up with a why? Which led me on a fun hunt to find out why so many people are obsessedRead More→

Megan Schmit (’18) Working at Providence Media

Posted on October 3, 2018

“My start at Providence Media has been the culmination of everything I’ve worked and hoped for, and more. I knew through my studies at Wake that I wanted to find a career in editorial, and jumped at the offer of an Assistant Editor position at the place I’d previously interned for. It’s been nearly four months now, and my experience has been incredible. Our company publishes four monthlies and a quarterly state-wide magazine, and within my first two months IRead More→

Bradley Singleton (‘17) Working at the Early Today Show

Posted on April 20, 2018

Bradley Singleton (‘17) is currently working for NBC in New York for the Early Today Show as a Production Assistant. He orders the graphics for the show and writes the sports and entertainment stories for air. He is also over the show’s social media pages. Singleton previously interned in Columbia, SC at WLTX News 19 (CBS Affiliate) and in Sumter, SC at Community Broadcasters, a radio conglomerate. In Winston-Salem, Singleton interned with the local semi-professional football team, the Winston Wildcats, as a sidelineRead More→

Hinman (‘16) Produces Local News for WGHP Fox8

Posted on April 19, 2018

Buck Hinman (‘16) was nominated for a regional Emmy for his work at WTVG 13abc in Ohio. Hinman recently moved from Toledo, OH where he worked as a producer. He currently resides in Winston-Salem, also working as a producer for WGHP Fox8. At WGHP Fox8, he works to produce an hour-long newscast. “I pick out all the stories and choose how they will be presented on air,” said Hinman. “Then, I write them and add in any graphics.” Once the show starts,Read More→

Margie Feng (‘17) at the University of Southern California

Posted on March 21, 2018

Margie Feng (‘17) is currently a graduate journalism student at the University of Southern California. “I’ve participated in and produced three multimedia long-form pieces, and I am reporting on my graduate thesis about foreign correspondents’ reporting conditions in China,” said Feng. “Besides the academics, I am working as a videographer for the USC School of Dramatic Arts.” During her time at Wake Forest, Feng interned with Wake Forest Magazine. She believes the most significant takeaway is to always make sureRead More→

Daniel Sechtin (’16) Wins Midsouth Emmy for News Writing Excellence

Posted on February 20, 2018

Daniel Sechtin graduated from Wake Forest in 2016, majoring in Politics and International Affairs with a double minor in Journalism and Philosophy. During his time at Wake Forest, Sechtin says he took advantage of any and every opportunity he could find to get hands-on experience in broadcast journalism. He spent his summers as an intern for CNN, Voice of America, and as an NBC affiliate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Sechtin also spent a semester working for WGHP newsRead More→

Yasmin Bendaas (’13) and Climate Change in Algeria

Posted on October 26, 2017

“Thomson Reuters Foundation News recently picked up a story where I looked at how climate change is affecting rural sheepherding practices in Algeria. The mountain region where I completed interviews is not one dealing with desertification like areas a bit further south in Algeria that are confronted with an expanding Sahara Desert. It’s also not a region particularly hit by extreme weather conditions and isn’t on the coast, facing rising sea levels. I wanted to see if this place, seeminglyRead More→

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