Five of Professor Phoebe Zerwick’s Community Journalism students, Bella Ortley-Guthrie (’24), Yushuo Wang (’24), Christa Dutton (’24), Cassie Tan (’24), and Aine Pierre (’24) covered the local 2022 mid-term elections.
Mariama Jallow (’22), who is currently completing her master’s degree at the Columbia Journalism School in New York City, has won a North Carolina Press Association Award for a story she published during her internship at NC Health News. NC Health News was honored with an additional 16 awards for work published between October 2020 and February 2022.
The below are remarks from Phoebe Zerwick, Director of the Journalism Program at WFU, on the history of the Bynum Shaw Prize and the students being recognized this year. The annual journalism award at WFU is named for Bynum Shaw, WFU grad, who worked as a Washington Correspondent, European correspondent and editorial writer for the Baltimore Sun before returning to Wake in 1965 to run the Journalism and Creative Writing Programs. “He was smart and skeptical, but never cynical, becauseRead More→
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has awarded a fellowship to Wake Forest University sophomore Natasha Heisenberg. The $3,000 award will support reporting on the environmental impact of whaling in the Faroe Islands, a self-governing region off the coast of Denmark. “Whaling takes place in the summer and has been a component of Faroese culture for over a thousand years,” Heisenberg wrote in her application for the program. “While these hunts have been regulated since 1948, activists have called uponRead More→
Please join us for this fall’s Wake Screens, a semesterly showcase of student film and audio work from the previous semester’s classes in Communication and Journalism. When: Tuesday Nov 30, 2021; 7-8:30pm Where: Annenberg Auditorium, Carswell 111
When given the opportunity to intern at The Charlotte Observer, I jumped at the chance. At the time I was offered the internship, I had just been named Editor in Chief of the Old Gold & Black and had taken a grand total of two — maybe three — journalism classes. I was a newbie, but I was ready to learn. Finally, after my first semester of leading the OGB came to an end, I traveled an hour-and-a-half southRead More→
Staff Editorial: Students play role in policy change
I started interning at North Carolina Health News this summer and continued through the Fall semester. At NC Health News, I have pitched stories and interviewed people all over North Carolina on health-related issues in the hopes of having an impact on communities and introducing different perspectives to topics ranging from mental health to the COVID pandemic. I started thinking about writing this story during a class I took in spring 2021 with Professor Jordan Green. We were looking intoRead More→
Students in Paul Garber’s “On the Air with WFDD” have been reporting what the 2020 Census says about the way the region’s population is changing. The first story, by Emily Ficker, aired last week. Stay tuned for more.
This post is way overdue, but I wanted to share student work from our Spring 2021 “Deep Dive” in investigative reporting, in which students looked into local COVID deaths among front line workers. Their remarkable story was published in the May 27, 2021 edition of Triad City Beat. Jordan Green, now a reporter with the Raw Story, taught students how to build a database using information from death certificates and mine that data for stories. As they wrote: “But amongRead More→
