Student Work

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.

Old Gold & Black Launches Arts and Culture Magazine: The Magnolia

Posted on December 5, 2022

The Old Gold & Black held a launch event for its arts & culture magazine, The Magnolia, on December 4th at 6pm in the Magnolia Room. The event included a presentation of the magazine, a Q&A with the editorial team, and a reception following the event. The current issue celebrates under-appreciated groups in the Wake Forest community and puts the spotlight on students and staff. For further information about the launch event or theRead More→

Join Us at Wake Screens on Thursday, December 1st

Posted on November 28, 2022

Please join us in celebrating our excellent filmmaking students at Wake Screens this Thursday, December 1st, from 7-8:30pm in Carswell 111 (Annenberg). We hope to see you there!

Senior Will Zimmerman’s Story, “Rooted in East Winston,” Published in The Assembly

Posted on November 23, 2022

Will Zimmerman (‘23) is a senior from New York studying writing, journalism, and film. His story, “Rooted in East Winston,” charts Michael Banner’s quest to return healthy, fresh food to his community in East Winston, and was born out of Professor Barry Yeoman’s Magazine Writing class, which Will took in the fall semester of 2021. Thanks to Banner’s thoughtfulness, as well as the support and guidance of Professor Yeoman during the fall of 2021 and the ensuing year, Will’s storyRead More→

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