Prof. Phoebe Zerwick will be teaching Wake Washington, a set of courses and internship work that count toward the journalism minor, in Washington, D.C. in fall of 2020. This program provides 9 out of the 18 hours required for the minor. Start planning ahead now and contact Prof. Zerwick for more information.
Professor Justin Catanoso is currently recruiting students for his summer course WFU/Peru: Tropical Biodiversity and Environmental Journalism. Read about previous students’ experiences below, and contact Prof. Catanoso at catanojj@wfu.edu to learn more. While journeying down river in the Madre de Dios region of Peru this June, nine Wake Forest students saw Peruvians that looked a lot like them. They were young. They smiled and waved. But the same hands that greeted the students were the ones that sifted through the soilRead More→
Are you interested in taking your journalism to the next level? Do you have a project you want to pursue? An unpaid internship you’d love to take? Maybe you want to study journalism overseas? The Journalism Program can help, with grants for: ● Scholarships to study journalism overseas. ● Stipends to support you while you work at an unpaid internship in journalism. ● Travel to report a journalism project overseas or in the U.S. ● Fees and travel to aRead More→
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→
An Election Day “vox pop” produced by journalism students Katherine Laws (’20) and Will May (’20) aired Election Day on WFDD on the “All Things Considered” news hour, bringing listeners insight into the half of the electorate who don’t vote. https://cloud.lib.wfu.edu/blog/heardithere/2018/11/06/election-day-voices/ The radio story was part of an ongoing collaboration between WFDD and Professor Phoebe Zerwick’s class in Community Journalism, earning a mention in the “NC Local” newsletter. Students Laws (’20), May (’20), Jessica Baker (’19), Regine Boykin (’20), andRead More→
“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→
Major/Minor Fair October 3rd, 3-5 p.m. Benson 401 Interested in minoring in journalism? Come visit our table at next week’s major/minor fair. Students will have the opportunity to talk directly to members of the faculty about the minor, as well as the academic opportunities it holds. This is a drop-in event, students are welcome to come for any length of time between 3-5 p.m.
Journalists from around the state of North Carolina and surrounding areas gathered at Wake Forest’s Innovation Quarter to learn about data journalism and how it is used in investigative reporting on June 18-19. The two-day workshop was organized by the UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media with partnership from Reveal Center for Investigative Reporting and Wake Forest University. During the first day, participants learned how to use Excel to sort and organize data. Emmanuel Martinez, a reporter forRead More→
Award-winning photojournalist Daniella Zalcman lead a short course entitled “Deep Dive Photojournalism” during the spring 2018 semester. This course was organized by the Wake Forest University journalism program and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Read more about the course and view the image gallery here.
Junior Natalie Wilson’s work has been featured on the ‘Undisclosed’ podcast, which investigates wrongful convictions and the U.S. criminal justice system. Read more here.
