Faculty Work

New Affiliated Faculty Announced in the Journalism Program

Posted on April 20, 2018

The following faculty who teach courses that count as electives in journalism are now affiliated with the program. These include faculty from the departments of Documentary Film, Communication, and Law. Mark Rabil, Director of Innocence and Justice Clinic, Associate Clinical Professor of Law. Since January 2013, Mark Rabil has been an Associate Professor at the School of Law. He has been the Director of the Innocence and Justice Clinic since 2009, and he also teaches Trial Advocacy and CriminalRead More→

Tommy Tomlinson Hosts New Podcast “SouthBound”

Posted on November 14, 2017

Tommy Tomlinson is an adjunct professor at Wake teaching Magazine Writing, and contributes to national magazines like Esquire, ESPN The Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, Reader’s Digest, Southern Living and Garden & Gun. This week he is launching a podcast by WFAE (an NPR affiliate) in Charlotte titled “SouthBound,” centered on conversations with people from the South from all walks of life. Find more of Tomlinson’s work on his website.

Justin Catanoso Reporting from his fourth United Nations Climate Summit (COP23)

Posted on November 12, 2017

Justin Catanoso teaches journalism courses and regularly contributes to Mongabay with a focus on climate change. He will be reporting for Mongabay at his fourth United Nations Climate Summit in Bonn, Germany this week. He has published five pieces so far that can be found on the Mongabay website here or on his personal website. He has also been live tweeting from the Summit.

Open Spaces: Lives Impacted by Incarceration Exhibit

Posted on October 23, 2017

Everyone is welcome to an exhibit opening program tomorrow, Tuesday October 24 at 5:30 at Self-Reliance Hall in the Goodwill building (2701 University Parkway). This exhibition of photographs and narratives, titled Open Spaces: Lives Impacted by Incarceration, was created through a collaboration between Wake Forest undergraduate students, Professors Eranda Jayawickreme and Lisa Blee, member of the Journalism Advisory Committee, Project Re-entry, and Goodwill Industries. With guidance and feedback from Project Re-entry staff, Blee, and the artists, Studio Art major Rebecca BoolbaRead More→

JOURNALISM UNDER ATTACK: Is Democracy Really at Stake?

Posted on October 20, 2017

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 4:00-6:00pm Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium Room 404 A Symposium on Journalism, truth, and democracy, featuring an historical overview of Journalism in the Early Republic by US Historian Jake Ruddiman, followed by a panel discussion of Journalism faculty on the various ways Journalism makes knowldge. The symposium will explore Journalism’s professional methods, Journalism’s encounter with uncertainty, recent efforts by Journalists to document hate crimes, and the importance of Journalism for democratic polity. This program is partRead More→

Deep Dive Photojournalism Course

Posted on October 19, 2017

Join award-winning photojournalist Daniella Zalcman for “Deep Dive Photojournalism,” a short course organized by the Wake Forest University journalism program and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. This 1.5-credit independent study takes students through the fundamentals of photojournalism: basic photographic skills development and review of more advanced techniques as well as consideration of how journalists develop story ideas, cultivate sources and create their ultimate published reported project. A unique hands-on assignment will involve alternative photo processes and multipleRead More→

Phoebe Zerwick’s Environmental Humanities Project Opens October 21

Posted on October 19, 2017

Winston-Salem, NC, September 2017 – DANCE FOR THE RIVER, an exhibit and interdisciplinary education and awareness program spearheaded by Photographer Christine Rucker, will make its debut on Saturday, October 21, from 6:30 to 9PM, at the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center in Yadkinville, NC. Tickets to the exhibit and opening are free. VIP tickets to see the interdisciplinary performance from 7-8PM in the Willingham Theatre that night also are free, however reservations are required. Call 336-679-2941 to reserve. The exhibit runsRead More→

Smithsonian Displays WFU Research Addressing Global Challenges

Posted on October 10, 2017

Wake Forest University has participated in a yearlong process with the Atlantic Coast Conference, partner ACC universities, and the Smithsonian Institution to create the first “ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival.” Presented by Virginia Tech and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the ACCelerate Festival is three-day celebration of creative exploration and research at the nexus of science, engineering, arts, and design. Visitors to the festival will interact with leading innovators from ACC universities and engage with new interdisciplinary technologies that drawRead More→

Jordan Green Addresses Political Extremism, Culture Wars and Race Relations

Posted on June 4, 2017

Jordan Green is the senior editor of Triad City Beat and has also had his work appear in The Nation, The Guardian and Scalawag. His interests include political extremism, rural America, race relations, poverty, voting rights and culture wars. He addressed the protests in Charlottesville in his piece “In Charlottesville, It Felt Like the Confederacy Was Trying to Rise Again” for The Nation. Green wrote about a conservative activists’ gathering in Kernersville for Triad City Beat in “Local Conservative Activists PrepareRead More→

Phoebe Zerwick Writes About Abortion, Darryl Hunt and Refugees

Posted on February 15, 2017

Phoebe Zerwick, Program Director and Associate Professor of journalism, has written for a range of magazine publications and produces web-based documentary. Her piece “The Rise of the DIY Abortion” for Glamour magazine features the voices of women who had taken matters into their own hands to end an unwanted pregnancy. She explores Darryl Hunt’s life after exoneration in “The Last Days of Darryl Hunt.” Zerwick gets close with a refugee family in National Geographic‘s “Fleeing War, a Syrian Family Makes aRead More→

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