This spring, the Journalism Program will begin formally offering financial support for students looking to pursue journalistic opportunities outside of Wake Forest’s campus. This initiative, titled “Beyond the Classroom,” will help students interested unpaid internships, more extensive projects, and studying journalism abroad.

The Journalism Program will help with scholarships for overseas studies, stipends for students working unpaid internships, travel to report a journalism project overseas or in the U.S., and fees and travel to a journalism conference or workshop. 

Applications will be posted to the Journalism Program website by the beginning of 2019 and will be due March 15. Preferences will be given to students minoring in journalism with demonstrated financial need. The level of financial support will vary depending on each student’s budget and needs. 

“We’ve been providing some of this support in the past, informally,” says Professor Phoebe Zerwick, Director of the Journalism Program, “But we really wanted students to understand the many ways in which the Journalism Program can support their work outside the classroom.”