Faculty Work

Prof. Justin Catanoso gives climate talk

Posted on May 3, 2022

This story originally appeared for the Old Gold & Black by Anna Beim on April 24, 2022 On April 14, Justin Catanoso — author and Wake Forest journalism professor — spoke at a Great Decisions forum to address global policies that slow down the impact of climate change. The talk was held in Scales Fine Arts Center as a part of the “Great Decisions Series”, a national foreign policy education program sponsored by the non-partisan Foreign Policy Association. Catanoso described potentialRead More→

Instructor Mandy Locke reports on law enforcement reforms

Posted on April 28, 2022

Mandy Locke, an adjunct instructor in the journalism program, is chronicling failed criminal justice reform in North Carolina. Locke, a former investigative reporter for the (Raleigh) News & Observer, secured a grant from the Pulitzer Center to investigate law enforcement power and abuses. Locke’s work has been published by members of the North Carolina News Collaborative, a coalition of 23 news organizations across the state. Locke’s December report revealed how the powerful sheriffs’ lobby pushed for roadblocks to a family’s ability to review body cameraRead More→

Professor Justin Catanoso launches podcast for Wake Forest’s Center for Energy Environment and Sustainability called CEEScast

Posted on March 4, 2022

On Feb. 28, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases at the same time the IPCC Sixth Assessment Working Group II Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability was released. CEES, the university’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability’s Stan Meiburg was deputy director of the US EPA when the regulations at question in the court case were drafted during the Obama administration. Journalism Professor Justin Catanoso, also a CEES board member andRead More→

Magazine writing instructor Barry Yeoman on his latest work of long-form journalism

Posted on November 17, 2021

This fall, I took readers of the digital magazine The Assembly to a corner of North Carolina that has gotten scant attention: Robeson County, home to the Lumbee Tribe and a crucible of 21st-century environmental justice struggles. I spent a week in the rural county, which is sandwiched between Fort Bragg and the South Carolina, and spoke with tribal elders, scholars, environmental activists, and economic development leaders. I accompanied the Lumber Riverkeeper as he took water samples, and joined aRead More→

Prof. Catanoso to cover United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland

Posted on October 28, 2021

Professor Justin Catanoso will cover his seventh United Nations Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, between November 5 and November 12, 2021. Catanoso has been a regular contributor to Mongabay, an international environmental news organization, since 2015. In that year, he covered the UN summit that led to the historic Paris Agreement. The meeting in Glasgow, called COP26, is crucial in that it finalizes the rules by which 196 signatories of the Paris Agreement are to follow in order to reduceRead More→

Journalism Program pilots new course in “Telling Stories with Data”

Posted on October 14, 2021

Some most groundbreaking stories of our era are based in data. Health data. Financial data. Crime data. This spring, the Journalism Program will pilot on new course “Telling Stories with Data,” taught by Ryan Thornburg, a nationally recognized expert data-driven journalism, and Mandy Locke, who has taught journalism at Wake for the past three years. The course will focus on health data. If you love numbers and wonder how to tell stories with them or if you love stories andRead More→

“George Floyd’s America” – A Conversation With Robert Samuels

Posted on October 12, 2021

November 1, 2021 | 12:00pm ET via Zoom Free and open to the public. Registration required. Join Phoebe Zerwick, Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of the Journalism Program, and Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Program in African American Studies, for a public conversation with the award winning Washington Post journalist Robert Samuels.

Robert Samuels of The Washington Post to Teach Deep Dive

Posted on April 13, 2021

The Journalism Program welcomes adjunct instructor Robert Samuels, a visiting journalist from The Washington Post. Samuels will teach JOU 375B: A Deep Dive Into Race and the Media in fall 2021. Robert Samuels is a national political enterprise reporter for The Washington Post who is known for his nuanced and empathetic work reporting across all socioeconomic backgrounds. His beat includes traveling through the country to chronicle how the lawmakers, policies and prominent issues in the nation’s capital impact the lives of everydayRead More→

Journalism Program Hosts Candid Roundtable on Race and the Media

Posted on November 13, 2020

“I don’t get emails that say, you know, You’re short. I don’t get emails that say, You have short hair. I don’t get emails that say, Oh, I hate your glasses. I get emails that almost always start at race, and, you know, I would be lying if I didn’t tell you it’s exhausting.” Audra D.S. Burch, national enterprise correspondent for The New York Times, said the above quote about an hour into an expansive, intimate, and candid roundtableRead More→

Prof. Zerwick Discusses the Importance of Local News

Posted on November 10, 2020

The Journalism Program Professor Phoebe Zerwick recently spoke to Winston-Salem’s Fox 8 regarding the impact of shrinking staffs at local newspapers. “[W]hen you lose local news, the community in the state loses that watchdog function that journalism provides,” Zerwick says in the interview. Professor Zerwick, who will return to her position as director of the Journalism Program in spring 2021, regularly teaches a course in Community Journalism, focusing on the development of downtown Winston-Salem. Before working at Wake Forest, sheRead More→

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