Faculty Work

Journalism Program Adjunct Instructor Robert Samuels Wins Pulitzer for Best General Non-Fiction

Posted on May 10, 2023

“His Name is George Floyd,” a non-fiction book co-authored by WFU Journalism Program adjunct and former Washington Post reporter Robert Samuels, was awarded a Pulitzer this Monday, May 8th, 2023, for best general non-fiction. Samuels, who was in conversation at WFU last fall about “His Name is George Floyd,“ is now a staff writer at The New Yorker and will be teaching a deep dive course for WFU during the fall 2023 semester titled, “The American Dilemma: Race, Reporting andRead More→

Apply Now to Join the WFU Environmental and Epistemic Justice Summer Institute!

Posted on February 23, 2023

The Journalism Program is pleased to announce the launch of the Wake Forest University Environmental and Epistemic Justice Summer Institute! The Wake Forest University Environmental and Epistemic Justice Initiative is a multi-pronged Mellon Foundation funded research, teaching, and community engagement project that places at its center environmental and epistemic justice. The Initiative critically examines how and in what ways race and regimes of racial knowledge shape and inform our scholarly practices, public policies, and normative concerns. The Initiative will hostRead More→

A Selection of Notable Longform Journalism from 2022

Posted on December 31, 2022

The below post and corresponding list of longform journalism is provided by Professor Barry Yeoman. It must be December: time to pivot away from my own work and share with you my favorite longform journalism of 2022. Some of the stories play off the news. But scan the list (direct links to the stories above) and you’ll also see mariachi teams, Ukrainian soccer fans, a Spanish DJ, hikers in Kurdistan, swimming cattle, a Pentecostal preacher, and a goose named Goo.Read More→

Prof. Newsome Explores the Effects of Climate Change on Black Families along the Gullah-Geechee Corridor

Posted on December 22, 2022

Independent journalist and adjunct for the WFU Journalism Program, Melba Newsome, recently published an article in The Post & Courier titled “Vanishing land: Climate change displaces Black families along the Gullah-Geechee Corridor.”

Boston Thurmond Documentary Project Receives Grants for Research, Film and Oral History Production

Posted on December 16, 2022

The Journalism Program is excited to announce that the Boston Thurmond Documentary Project has received two grants – a Large Grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, and a Filmed in NC Grant from the Cucalorus Film Festival. The almost $20,000 in funds will facilitate the research and production of films and oral histories from Boston-Thurmond, one of Winston-Salem’s oldest historically Black neighborhoods. This project was established in 2019. Over the past three years, four Wake Forest classes have contributed to theRead More→

Professor Catanoso Reports Whistleblower Exclusive on Enviva’s Green Image

Posted on December 8, 2022

Justin Catanoso, a Professor of the Practice in the Journalism Program and contributor for Mongabay, recently investigated a whistleblower’s claims that Enviva, the world’s largest wood pellet producer, had fabricated information about the types of wood used to make its pellets, as well as where it sourced the wood used in pellet production. To learn more, you can read the full story here: “Whistleblower: Enviva claim of ‘being good for the planet… all nonsense’”.

Journalism Instructor Barry Yeoman Publishes in The Nation Magazine

Posted on December 5, 2022

Barry Yeoman, an adjunct instructor in Journalism, has published an article in The Nation about a moral and legal collision in higher education and the workplace. “Here’s the conundrum,” Yeoman said. “We want to ensure harassment-free schools and workplaces. We also want to protect people with disabilities from discrimination. What happens when these imperatives collide?” At the center of the story is a photographer named Lowell Handler, who lost his community college teaching job after two students filed complaints allegingRead More→

Professor Zerwick’s “Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt” Shortlisted for the Southern Book Prize

Posted on November 22, 2022

Professor Phoebe Zerwick’s book, Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt, is on the shortlist for the Southern Book Prize! To learn more, please click here: https://thesouthernbooksellerreview.org/southern-book-prize/.

Co-Author of “His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice” Coming to WFU

Posted on October 7, 2022

The Journalism and African American Studies Programs are pleased to announce an upcoming public conversation with Robert Samuels of The Washington Post on his book His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. Robert Samuels will be in conversation with Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities and director of the Program in African American Studies, and Phoebe Zerwick, Professor of the Practice and directorRead More→

Professor Zerwick Introduces Book at Law School Event, “Beyond Innocence: Darryl Hunt and the Fight for Justice in America”

Posted on September 27, 2022

Professor Zerwick, along with the Wake Forest University School of Law, will introduce her book, Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt, and the Darryl Hunt and Hunt Trials Collection at 5pm in the Worrell Professional Center on September 29, 2022. Darryl Hunt was twice wrongfully convicted of the murder of a local newspaper editor and served nearly twenty years before the crime was solved with DNA evidence in 2003. The collection is a living archive of trial transcripts,Read More→

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