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.
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→
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
The Comic Scientist
This summer, Christian Green ’19 had an internship with Working Narratives – “a non-partisan social justice organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering communities to address issues that affect their lives.” The Journalism Program believes experiences like this are essential for developing journalists, and was proud to provide stipends to Christian and other Wake students to support their work beyond Wake’s campuses. As part of the internship, Green produced “The Living History of Core Sound Decoys.” “Hunters and carvers along theRead More→
For the last year, I lived in Chicago studying journalism at the Medill School at Northwestern University. It was a fast-paced and rigorous education that pushed me to report on all kinds of stories, thoroughly finessing my journalism skills. Wake Forest’s journalism program prepared me well for the breaking news portion of the curriculum as I already had gained experience reporting on my own in classes such as Phoebe Zerwick’s Community Journalism. I felt confident writing longer feature stories thanksRead More→
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→
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→
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→
On December 7-8, 2018, Wake Forest is hosting an event celebrating the poetry of A. R. “Archie” Ammons. Maria Henson will discuss the journalistic and book-loving careers with our four latest Wake Forest Writers Hall of Fame inductees: Linda Carter Brinson (WS Sentinel and Journal); Betsy Teter (founder of Hub City Books and Press); Jo DeYoung Thomas (Managing Editor, Foreign Correspondent for the New York Times); and Doug Waller (Washington Editor, Time Magazine, and biographer). We will hear from alumni/ae poets, in a session moderated by Ed Southern (NCRead More→
