Student Work

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→

Wake Forest Junior Una Wilson Wins Pulitzer Center Fellowship

Posted on May 12, 2023

The Pulitzer Center has selected junior Una Wilson as Wake Forest’s 2023 Reporting Fellow. She will receive a $3000 stipend to report on the impact of community gardens on poor communities near Mumbai, India. The title of her research project is “Mumbai slum gardeners plant seeds to save lives.” In her application to the Pulitzer Center, Wilson highlighted the massive population growth in urban industrial cities worldwide and how these densely populated areas are creating public health concerns. “Unstable constructionRead More→

2023 Bynum G. Shaw Prize Awarded to Christa Dutton; Finalist Prizes Awarded to Aine Pierre and Will Zimmerman

Posted on April 26, 2023

The below are remarks from Ivan Weiss, Interim-Director of the Journalism Program at WFU, and Phoebe Zerwick, Director of the Journalism Program, on the students being recognized for the Bynum G. Shaw prize this year. Please join us in congratulating our winner, Christa Dutton, and finalists, Aine Pierre and Will Zimmerman! (Prof. Ivan Weiss) “A few weeks ago, as many of you know, my wife Stephanie and I had a daughter. Along with having a healthy baby that doesn’t cry tooRead More→

Journalism Minor Nick Hayman (’23) Published on NBC Sports

Posted on March 29, 2023

Nick Hayman (’23), a WFU Journalism minor, was recently published on NBC Sports with a story originally written during Prof. Barry Yeoman’s Magazine Writing class in Spring 2022. Hayman’s story, which you can read here, revisits WFU Women’s Golf athlete Rachel Kuehn’s (’23) experience at the Augusta Women’s National Amateur in 2022 and provides thoughtful insight into the professional, as well as recreational, growth of women’s golf over the last decade. On his decision to pursuing publishing the story, HaymanRead More→

Wake Forest OG&B Wins Two National Honors at College Media Association Conference

Posted on March 14, 2023

The Old Gold & Black recently traveled to New York City for the College Media Association’s national spring conference and returned with two national honors. An Old Gold & Black opinion piece written by Opinion Editor Lauren Carpenter while she was still a staff writer earned first place in the opinion category. In the article, she shares her story of surviving sexual assault. With brilliance and courage, she writes about the post-traumatic stress that made her social and academic lifeRead More→

Boston Thurmond Documentary Project Receives Grants for Research, Film and Oral History Production

Posted on December 16, 2022

The Journalism Program is excited to announce that the Boston Thurmond Documentary Project has received two grants – a Large Grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, and a Filmed in NC Grant from the Cucalorus Film Festival. The almost $20,000 in funds will facilitate the research and production of films and oral histories from Boston-Thurmond, one of Winston-Salem’s oldest historically Black neighborhoods. This project was established in 2019. Over the past three years, four Wake Forest classes have contributed to theRead More→

Old Gold & Black Recognized with Multiple ACP Journalism Awards

Posted on December 14, 2022

Congratulations are in order for the Old Gold & Black, which was recently recognized with several awards during the Associated Collegiate Press’ fall 2022 journalism contests. The OG&B was a finalist for the ACP’s Best Newspaper Pacemaker Award, given to the nation’s top collegiate newspapers. Additionally, the OG&B’s breaking news story on the Weaver Fertilizer Fire written by Connor McNeely, Aine Pierre, and Cooper Sullivan received recognition as the 4th best breaking news story in the ACP’s Story of theRead More→

Community Journalism Students Chronicle the Stories of the Humans of Downtown Winston-Salem

Posted on December 8, 2022

Humans of Downtown is a project from the minds of students taking Community Journalism that uses photography to draw out the stories of the individuals who live, work, and play in downtown Winston-Salem. You can learn more about the project and the humans documented in it by clicking here.

Journalism Program

Wake Forest University