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→

Z. Smith Reynolds Library and Journalism Program Faculty Discuss Threat of Mis/Disinformation with Alumni

Posted on April 25, 2024

Original blog post written by Hu Womack and Roz Tedford. It had been four years since we last visited Wake Washington. That visit to present and discuss mis/disinformation happened just weeks before COVID-19, and we promised not to be harbingers of disaster this time! Just to make sure, we changed our topic to “Election Mis/Disinformation: How to Spot it, why it’s Effective, and What We Can Do to Avoid It.” Twenty WFU Alumni and friends joined us on a beautifulRead More→

Journalism Program Alumna Meagan Marks (’23) Published in Triad City Beat

Posted on October 12, 2023

Meagan Marks (’23), who graduated in May, had a September cover story published in Triad City Beat about the Athenas, an all-female weightlifting group on Wake Forest’s campus. The story originated in adjunct instructor Jeremy Markovich’s magazine writing course (JOU 340) during the Spring 2023 semester, and Marks and Markovich worked together afterward to find a home for it in print. Marks, who earned a B.A. in psychology and minored in neuroscience and journalism, is currently a Post-baccalaureate Research FellowRead More→

Connor McNeely (’23) and Christa Dutton (’24) Reflect on Journalism Internship Experiences over Summer 2023

Posted on September 12, 2023

This summer, some of our Journalism students had the opportunity to intern with local journalistic media companies. Here is what two of them had to say as they reflected on their experiences: Connor McNeely (’23) “After graduating in May 2023, I accepted an internship offer with the Greensboro News & Record for this summer. For the past month I have had an opportunity to work as a breaking news reporter for the News & Record covering all kinds of storiesRead More→

Journalism Program Alumni Highlights: Julia Haines (’19)

Posted on May 31, 2023

Julia Haines (’19) is currently working as a Data Editor with U.S. News & World Report. As such, she covers a wide range of topics, including health, policy, education, foreign aid and labor. She conducts data analysis both for investigative articles and for rankings projects such as Best States, Best Countries and Healthiest Communities. Below is a message from Julia:   I greatly appreciates the diligence, transparency and support that my team at U.S. News & World Report brings toRead More→

WFU Alumna and Journalism Minor Mankaprr Conteh (’17) Publishes 2nd Cover Story for Rolling Stone

Posted on May 30, 2023

Mankaprr Conteh (’17), a staff writer for Rolling Stone who minored in Journalism while studying at WFU, has published her 2nd cover story for Rolling Stone on May 22, 2023. This latest story is on Janelle Monáe, detailing the artist’s growth and development leading up to her latest album, which is set to debut later this year. To read Conteh’s full cover story, please click here.

Mariama Jallow, Class of 2022, Wins NC Press Association Award for Work at NC Health News

Posted on August 31, 2022

Mariama Jallow (’22), who is currently completing her master’s degree at the Columbia Journalism School in New York City, has won a North Carolina Press Association Award for a story she published during her internship at NC Health News. NC Health News was honored with an additional 16 awards for work published between October 2020 and February 2022.

Tripp Mickle, alum and journalism minor, hired by The New York Times to cover Apple

Posted on April 27, 2022

The New York Times announced on April 5 that Tripp Mickle, a journalism minor from the class of 2003, is joining the newspaper as a tech reporter based in San Francisco as he returns to covering Apple, one of the world’s largest and most influential companies.  The Times wrote of its new hire: “Tripp is joining after eight years of writing about Apple, Google, bourbon and beer for The Wall Street Journal. During that time, he wrote about Jony Ive’s unexpectedRead More→

WFU grad covers crime and breaking news in Fairbanks, Alaska

Posted on November 23, 2021

Liv Clifford (’21) is working as a crime and breaking news reporter at the Daily News-Miner in Fairbanks, Alaska. Since beginning in May, she has covered murder trials, shootings and interviewed victims of a serial arsonist. She enjoys the fast-paced environment of a newsroom and connecting with the local community. Liv first developed an interest in journalism after taking Political Journalism: Election 2020 with Professor Phoebe Zerwick her senior year at Wake Forest. https://www.newsminer.com/news/alaska_news/delta-junction-man-charged-for-threatening-senators/article_c1a6df8c-26ee-11ec-a05f-3f684a932713.html https://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/two-rivers-arson-victim-speaks-about-the-ordeal-as-a-community-remains-on-watch/article_f06a69d0-f1b8-11eb-9ab9-1be099aefded.html https://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/childcare-center-facings-calls-of-maltreatment-abuse-by-staff/article_c0137b76-1d84-11ec-ac8f-13ce24b2bbfe.html https://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/41-year-old-fairbanks-man-charged-in-connection-with-fatal-safeway-shooting/article_62fb65c4-40df-11ec-9a72-0fc7e808df07.html

Journalist Kasha Patel (’12) is ‘the comic scientist’

Posted on October 25, 2021

The Comic Scientist

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