Student Work

Rita Venant (’20) Selected as Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow

Posted on May 6, 2020

Journalism student Rita Venant has been selected as the 2020 Wake Forest University – Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium reporting fellow. Venant’s project will investigate the impact the bushfires have had on the ‘Eora Nation,’ the aboriginal group in Sydney. She will be traveling to Sydney to quantitatively interview indigenous individuals who were affected by the fires to report their current state, road to recovery, and their involvement in aiding the larger Sydney community. Through partnership with the Journalism Program atRead More→

Journalism Students’ Coverage of COVID-19 at home featured on WUNC

Posted on April 30, 2020

Prof. Justin Catanoso joins students Marlee Rich and Anthony D’Angelo on WUNC’s “The State of Things” to discuss his JOU 270 class’s work on covering the coronavirus pandemic while staying at home. Typically, students in Catanoso’s Introduction to Journalism course are not allowed to interview their friends or family for assignments, encouraging them to step out of their comfort zones to get stories. But after in-person classes were canceled, Catanoso altered those guidelines to allow students to “cover the pandemicRead More→

Bynum Shaw Prize Awarded to Elizabeth Maline, Finalists Natalie Alms & Katherine Laws

Posted on April 30, 2020

The annual Bynum G. Shaw Prize for excellence in journalism was awarded this week to Elizabeth Maline. Two finalists, Natalie Alms and Katherine Laws, were also chosen. This year, the prize goes to Elizabeth Maline, the online managing editor at the OG&B. From the moment the college decided to suspend campus life, Elizabeth and the rest of the editorial board went to work to publish remotely. Their editorial explaining the move speaks to the urgency of the moment: “…our editorial staff is now spread acrossRead More→

Podcasting Students Produce “Voices of Earth Day”

Posted on April 22, 2020

Students in Prof. Ivan Weiss’s JOU 330 course helped produce a podcast series for Virtual Earth Month. The project is described on the Office of Sustainability’s website as “A student podcast series digging into stories of protest and passion from the very first Earth Day in 1970 and the half century since.” Listen to the podcast here.

Natalie Alms (’20) in Salisbury Post on graduating during a pandemic

Posted on March 19, 2020

“I didn’t realize it then, but that might’ve been my last normal day on campus as a student.” Senior Journalism minor Natalie Alms wrote a guest column in the Salisbury Post about having the climactic moment of your undergraduate career cut short by a global pandemic. Read it here. Alms has written previously about her experience as an intern at the Salisbury Post, where she wrote an award-winning article on foster parents. Alms is also a finalist for the 2020Read More→

Natalie Alms (’20) Wins 2nd Place Press Association Award for Foster Parent Article

Posted on March 2, 2020

From senior Journalism minor Natalie Alms: I was able to intern at the Salisbury Post in the summer of 2019 because of the support of the Journalism Department at Wake Forest. During my time at the Post, I wrote both breaking news and enterprise stories. I am most proud of writing a long piece about the foster parent shortage in Rowan County and North Carolina, more generally. As I got deeper into the reporting process, I realized the story would be two-fold: unpackingRead More→

Katherine Laws (’20) on Internship at Wake Forest Magazine

Posted on February 27, 2020

This fall, I had the rewarding opportunity to work as the intern at Wake Forest Magazine. This was a wonderful experience that placed me in situations I would have never encountered in the classroom, growing me as a storyteller and a communicator over the course of the semester. I wrote two stories to be published in the spring and summer issues of the magazine. The first was about Bri Butler, a Wake Forest alum and dancer on the STOMP stage,Read More→

Natalie Alms (’20) Interns at Salisbury Post

Posted on January 13, 2020

I was able to intern at the Salisbury Post last summer because of the support of the Journalism Department at Wake Forest. During my time at the Post, I wrote both breaking news and enterprise stories. I am most proud of writing a long piece about the foster parent shortage in Rowan County and North Carolina, more generally. As I got deeper into the reporting process, I realized the story would be two-fold: unpacking why the shortage existed and outlining what fosterRead More→

Wake Forest Journalism Program students helped launch WFDD’s in-depth housing report

Posted on June 12, 2019

A unique collaboration involving six students from the journalism program enabled a three-part series airing on WFDD this past week. Mandy Locke, adjunct instructor in the journalism program, led the reporting project and involved students through an independent study. The students were critical in building a database that served as a lynchpin for the project’s final piece on the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem as a leading evictor in the county. Other partners included WFDD and the Carolina Data Desk atRead More→

Sophomore from Brazil to become Wake Forest’s ninth Pulitzer Center fellow in international reporting

Posted on May 1, 2019

Rafael Lima, a sophomore majoring in communications and minoring in journalism and political science, has been selected Wake Forest’s ninth fellow in international reporting by the Pulitzer Center in Washington, D.C. His award is for $3,000. Lima, a native of Brazil, will return to home to report on the impact of his country’s controversial new president, Jair Bolsonaro. Specifically, he will focus on how Bolsonaro, referred to as a “Trump of the Tropics” because of his anti-environmental policies, has targetedRead More→

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