Student Work

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→

2024 Bynum G. Shaw Prize Awarded to Maddie Stopyra; Four Finalist Prizes Awarded to Breanna Laws, Shaila Prasad, Bella Ortley-Guthrie, Hope Zhu

Posted on April 25, 2024

Each year, the Journalism Program at Wake Forest University honors a student journalist with the Bynum G. Shaw award. The award is named for Bynum Shaw, a WFU alumnus (’48) who worked as a Washington correspondent, European correspondent and editorial writer for the Baltimore Sun following his graduation. Shaw returned to Wake Forest as a faculty member of journalism and creative writing in 1965 and at his retirement in 1993, friends, colleagues and former students contributed to a fund endowingRead More→

Senior Journalism Minor Secures Reporting Fellowship at The Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted on April 5, 2024

After graduating in May, Journalism minor Christa Dutton (’24) will work as a Reporting Fellow at The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle selects two fellows each year to work as general assignment reporters. Fellows cover a multitude of issues in higher education from student activism to finance to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion legislation. The Chronicle received close to 150 applications this year. Applicants must complete three rounds of interviews, submit five clips to showcase their writing skills, and pitch threeRead More→

WFU OG&B Collaborates with Universities Across North Carolina for Mental Health Special Edition

Posted on March 28, 2024

The Old Gold & Black recently produced a collaborative special edition with eight other universities across North Carolina. The topic of the special edition was mental health through a solutions journalism lens. Senior Writer for the OG&B and Journalism minor Christa Dutton (’24) writes about the special edition: “When the most senior members of our staff arrived on campus in 2020, social distancing and quarantine policies kept us safe but also destroyed morale. With nowhere on campus to gather, studentsRead More→

Journalism Students’ Film “Welcome(d)” To Be Screened at Wakeville 2024 and RiverRun International Film Festival

Posted on March 28, 2024

A film co-produced by four Wake Forest students will be screened at WFU’s interdisciplinary art festival, Wakeville, on April 6th at 2:30pm in Scales Fine Arts Center room M208. The film will also be screened at the RiverRun International Film Festival on April 26th at 5:30pm in the Hanesbrand Theater. More details, as well as the link to purchase tickets, can be found here: https://riverrunfilm.com/events/northcarolinashortsprogramthreewinstonstories/. The film, Welcome(d), is a short advocacy film produced for Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR) atRead More→

“Seek the truth and report it,” journalism minor Christa Dutton says in her senior oration.

Posted on February 12, 2024

Journalism minors Christa Dutton and Jimena Elmufdi delivered senior orations at the annual Senior Colloquium earlier this month. Here’s the link to their talks or read the full text below. WHATEVER IS TRUE by Christa Dutton, 2024 Seek the truth and report it. That is the first principle of journalism I learned in the Introduction to Journalism class here at Wake Forest. In many ways, my life, and especially my college years, can be summarized as a pursuit ofRead More→

Journalism Program Alumna Meagan Marks (’23) Published in Triad City Beat

Posted on October 12, 2023

Meagan Marks (’23), who graduated in May, had a September cover story published in Triad City Beat about the Athenas, an all-female weightlifting group on Wake Forest’s campus. The story originated in adjunct instructor Jeremy Markovich’s magazine writing course (JOU 340) during the Spring 2023 semester, and Marks and Markovich worked together afterward to find a home for it in print. Marks, who earned a B.A. in psychology and minored in neuroscience and journalism, is currently a Post-baccalaureate Research FellowRead More→

Connor McNeely (’23) and Christa Dutton (’24) Reflect on Journalism Internship Experiences over Summer 2023

Posted on September 12, 2023

This summer, some of our Journalism students had the opportunity to intern with local journalistic media companies. Here is what two of them had to say as they reflected on their experiences: Connor McNeely (’23) “After graduating in May 2023, I accepted an internship offer with the Greensboro News & Record for this summer. For the past month I have had an opportunity to work as a breaking news reporter for the News & Record covering all kinds of storiesRead More→

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