Student Work

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→

Journalism Student Stories Published on WFDD, Part 2

Posted on August 7, 2023

This spring semester, students in Professor Paul Garber’s On the Air with WFDD course took a beat coverage focus, with each student covering a county in North Carolina, to explore stories they were curious about in areas that have historically been news deserts in WFDD’s listening area. Below is part two of the stories that have been published; you can find part one of this series here. Keep an eye out for more to come! Lauren Carpenter (’25) interviewed DanikaRead More→

Reporting and Bonding – One Weekend “Out East” with the Deep Dive: Environmental Justice Class

Posted on May 23, 2023

The below is a group piece written by the Journalism Program’s Spring 2023 Deep Dive: Environmental Justice students and professor Melba Newsome as a reflection on their reporting trip taken in March 2023. Our Environmental Journalism class, Deep Dive: Environmental Justice, traveled to Lumberton, North Carolina, in late March to learn first-hand what it’s like in one of North Carolina’s most economically depressed and environmentally besieged counties. Hog farming. The multi-billion dollar industry comes at a gigantic cost to easternRead More→

Journalism Student Stories Published on WFDD

Posted on May 15, 2023

This spring semester, students in Professor Paul Garber’s On the Air with WFDD course took a beat coverage focus, with each student covering a county in North Carolina, to explore stories they were curious about in areas that have historically been news deserts in WFDD’s listening area. Below are some of the stories that were published. Keep an eye out for more to come! Aria Heyneman (’25) covered the High Point furniture market. Her interview with new Market AuthorityRead More→

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