The Journalism Program Professor Phoebe Zerwick recently spoke to Winston-Salem’s Fox 8 regarding the impact of shrinking staffs at local newspapers.

“[W]hen you lose local news, the community in the state loses that watchdog function that journalism provides,” Zerwick says in the interview. 

Professor Zerwick, who will return to her position as director of the Journalism Program in spring 2021, regularly teaches a course in Community Journalism, focusing on the development of downtown Winston-Salem. Before working at Wake Forest, she was a reporter for The Winston-Salem Journal.