Student Work

Students Learn Investigative Reporting at Weekend Workshop

Posted on March 27, 2018

Wake Forest journalism students spent last Saturday learning investigative reporting techniques from reporters from the New York Times and ProPublica at the Ida B. Wells Society investigative reporting workshop. “I thought this was a great opportunity to learn from these journalists, especially since they were journalists of color because they described their experiences as being different than their white colleagues,” said Maaheen Hasnain, a Wake Forest journalism student. “Being a person of color, it was beneficial hearing diverse perspectivesRead More→

Declaring a Journalism Minor

Posted on February 6, 2018

Minor Declaration beings Monday, February 5th. Journalism is storytelling in pursuit of the truth. The first draft of history. A check against power. However you define it, journalists explain our increasingly complicated world with the stories we need to make informed decisions in a free society. The journalism minor begins with Introduction to Journalism (JOU 270), and after that, you take 15 hours, including a required course in News Literacy (JOU 278). The four electives in the minor may be drawn from journalism courses,Read More→

Megan Schmit’s (’18) Providence Media Group Internship

Posted on January 28, 2018

Megan Schmit (’18) worked as an editorial intern with Providence Media Group in Pawtucket, RI last summer. During her four months there, Schmit got the chance to apply the skills she learned in her journalism courses at Wake Forest to real pieces that were published in five different local magazines. She got to interview many interesting people, research stories, pitch her own ideas, and even write a feature! “The experience was invaluable and was a culmination of all my workRead More→

WFDD Features Student Work in Community Journalism

Posted on December 8, 2017

Today WFDD shared select works from Phoebe Zerwick’s Community Journalism course on their website.Throughout the semester, students produced local journalism for the online publication Heard it Here. WFDD highlighted stories by Erin Stephens (’18), Jessica Clifford (’20), Stephen Bechtel (’19), and Meredith Happy (’20).

Suyash Keshari (’18): Nature & Wildlife Photography

Posted on November 14, 2017

Suyash Keshari is a nature and wildlife photographer from New Delhi, India. He is a senior pursuing a major in Politics and International Affairs and minor in journalism. You can find Keshari’s award-winning work here on his website. He recently created the podcast “A Tiger Story Worth Telling.” You can find his first wildlife documentary, On the Trail of the African Lion, here. You can find his story for Nature InFocus here.

Deacs Go Downtown in Community Journalism Course

Posted on November 7, 2017

Journalism starts at home, in local papers, magazines and news stations covering the most important topics rooted in their community. The journalism program’s Community Journalism course takes students to downtown Winston-Salem to learn about the stories and forces working just outside campus that shape everyday life. Students are real-life journalists held accountable to the downtown community as they cover local stories over the course of the semester, subject to editing and published online. Find their stories on Heard ItRead More→

The Importance of a Journalism Minor

Posted on October 30, 2017

“As both a journalism minor and an editor for the Old Gold & Black, I stand firm in my belief of the importance of a journalism minor for all students. No matter one’s field of study, the value of the minor is immense in how it enables students to better understand the world of news and become better scholars.” -David Ajamy (’19) The importance of a journalism minor

Lila Franco – Pulitzer Center Student Fellow

Posted on October 27, 2017

Lila Franco (’18) served as a Student Fellow at the Pulitzer Center last year. She is majoring in communication with a minor in psychology. As a native of Venezuela, Franco has always been concerned with human rights, given the poor social stability of the country. She moved to the United States two years ago and wants to pursue a career in organizational development that helps to create sustainable societies. She has a passion for language, and apart from being fluent inRead More→

Open Spaces: Lives Impacted by Incarceration Exhibit

Posted on October 23, 2017

Everyone is welcome to an exhibit opening program tomorrow, Tuesday October 24 at 5:30 at Self-Reliance Hall in the Goodwill building (2701 University Parkway). This exhibition of photographs and narratives, titled Open Spaces: Lives Impacted by Incarceration, was created through a collaboration between Wake Forest undergraduate students, Professors Eranda Jayawickreme and Lisa Blee, member of the Journalism Advisory Committee, Project Re-entry, and Goodwill Industries. With guidance and feedback from Project Re-entry staff, Blee, and the artists, Studio Art major Rebecca BoolbaRead More→

Amanda Wilcox’s (’20) Internship at PBS

Posted on October 4, 2017

“I spent this past summer working as an intern for the PBS NewsHour outside of Washington, D.C. Originally, the purpose of my internship was to assist with NewsHour Extra, a branch of the PBS NewsHour website that adapts content from the broadcast to make the news and politics accessible for school-age children. I enjoyed the work that I did for that a lot, but my supervisor saw that I ardently desired a greater challenge so she connected me with theRead More→

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