Student Work

Wake Forest Junior Evan Harris (’26) Wins Pulitzer Fellowship

Posted on June 6, 2025

The Pulitzer Center has awarded a fellowship to Wake Forest University junior Evan Harris. The $3,000 award will support reporting on the impact of overtourism on Bali, Indonesia. A politics and international affairs major from Greensboro, Harris plans to use writing, photography and audio recording to tell the stories of the local business owners affected by the dramatic surge in tourism and related development on the island. “Last year, 6.3 million visited, outnumbering the island’s population of 4.4 million,” HarrisRead More→

Class of 2025 Hope Zhu writes about refugee resettlement

Posted on June 2, 2025

A story about roadblocks for refugee resettlement in North Carolina, written by journalism minor Hope Zhu (’25), was recently published in The Assembly. To read or listen to Zhu’s article, “The Welcome That Wasn’t,” please click here.

OG&B Editor-in-Chief Ella Klein wins Bynum G Shaw Prize in Journalism

Posted on April 21, 2025

Journalism faculty awarded the annual Bynum G. Shaw prize for student journalism to Ella Klein, editor-in-chief at the Old Gold & Black. Klein is an Environmental and Sustainability Studies major, with minors in Journalism and Anthropology. The program also recognized three finalists: Virginia Noone, former OG&B opinion editor; Sklyer Villamar-Jones, deputy editor; and Beza Zelalem, environmental editor. The prizes were announced at the English Department awards celebration April 16 in the Magnolia Room. The OG&B’s Arts and Culture editor Adam Coil,Read More→

Reporting for WFDD, journalism minor tells the story of the April 11 execution by firing squad in South Carolina

Posted on April 11, 2025

Third-year student Alexandra Meier produced this story about the execution by firing squad in South Carolina of a man with ties to Winston-Salem. It aired April 11, the day of the execution. As Meier reports, Mikal Madhi was sentenced to death in the murder of an off-duty police officer in South Carolina. He was also convicted of an earlier killing here in Forsyth County of a convenience store clerk and sentenced to life in prison. Meier produced the story asRead More→

Journalism minor publishes feature in Italian magazine Ytali Global

Posted on March 20, 2025

Second-year student Caroline Khalaf published a profile last month about a Venetian photographer in the Italian online magazine Ytali Global. Khalaf reported and wrote “Pictures Called me Home” for her Magazine Writing class with Prof. Phoebe Zerwick at Casa Artom during fall 2024. Khalaf is a news editor at the OG&B and a journalism minor. A second Magazine Writing student, Hannah Reynolds, published her profile “Rediscovering Masterpieces: Liesl Odenweller and the Venice Music Project” the following month. Updated April 11.

Exhibit: Connecting Our Past: The History and Culture of Boston-Thurmond

Posted on December 3, 2024

Come see Connecting Our Past: The History and Culture of Boston-Thurmond, a pop-up exhibition at MUSE Winston-Salem opening December 2, 2024! The exhibit tells stories from the historic Boston community (today often referred to as Boston-Thurmond). Established in 1892, Boston is one of the last intact historically Black neighborhoods in Winston-Salem. In the 1920s and ’30s, Boston was a thriving, self-sufficient, mixed-income community, but like many other historically Black neighborhoods, it was disrupted by numerous “public improvements” such as Cherry/MarshallRead More→

Journalism Minor Hope Zhu (’25) Published by Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Posted on October 28, 2024

Written as part of an internship with the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage this summer, Journalism minor Hope Zhu’s (’25) article, “A Menominee Father-Son Duo Find Their Voices in Music,” was recently published by Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Below are her thoughts and what she learned from the process of writing her first magazine-style story: I spent three months interning with Smithsonian Folklife until this summer, and I was eager to attend their annual festival. I’ve always hadRead More→

Wake Forest Junior Melina Traiforos (’25) Wins Pulitzer Center Fellowship

Posted on May 9, 2024

The Pulitzer Center has selected Melina Traiforos, a third-year English major and journalism and marketing communications minor, as Wake Forest’s 2024 Reporting Fellow. Traiforos will receive a $3,000 stipend to report on Black maternal health disparities and inequalities low-income women face in the health care system. Her research project, titled “Black Mothers Are Dying. Here’s What NYC’s Doulas Are Doing About It,” will focus on the stories and outcomes behind an initiative taking place in New York City to addressRead More→

Journalism Student Work Published by NC Newsline

Posted on May 7, 2024

Students in Prof. Lisa Sorg’s spring 2024 Environmental Journalism course have had their work published by NC Newsline! Below are summaries of and links to their stories. Journalism minor and finalist for this year’s Bynum G. Shaw Prize in Student Journalism Hope Zhu’s (’24) produced a story titled “There are 21 food deserts in Winston-Salem, a legacy of racist redlining that persists today,” dives into the connection between the city’s racist redlining and food insecurity, as well as the workRead More→

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→

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