Program News

Photos by Walker Evans on display at Hanes Gallery

Posted on November 30, 2018

The Hanes Gallery is currently featuring a collection titled Walker Evans: Landscapes in Tradition. Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist who worked during the Great Depression. His photos “depict the crumbling infrastructure of the United States during the unstable economy of the Depression,” said Wake Forest student Yassmine Rohlf. “[They] highlight important themes of faith, home, and work, being the tripod for life for immigrants and steelworkers during the Depression.” This exhibit also features photos Evans took in Winston-Salem. Curated byRead More→

Students collaborate with WFDD for Election Day coverage

Posted on November 27, 2018

An Election Day “vox pop” produced by journalism students Katherine Laws (’20) and Will May (’20) aired Election Day on WFDD on the “All Things Considered” news hour, bringing listeners insight into the half of the electorate who don’t vote. https://cloud.lib.wfu.edu/blog/heardithere/2018/11/06/election-day-voices/ The radio story was part of an ongoing collaboration between WFDD and Professor Phoebe Zerwick’s class in Community Journalism, earning a mention in the “NC Local” newsletter. Students Laws (’20), May (’20), Jessica Baker (’19), Regine Boykin (’20), andRead More→

Student Work Featured in “Deep Dive” Collection

Posted on November 7, 2018

In the spring of 2018, documentary photographer Daniella Zalcman visited Wake Forest University to lead an intensive photojournalism workshop alongside Professor of the Practice Justin Catanoso. Students spent a week learning the fundamentals of documentary photography from Zalcman before going out in the field to explore and capture the complexities that exist in the community surrounding our campus. Some of the subjects photographed were the gap between the rich and the poor, sexual assault, and questions of identity. “The workshop,Read More→

Writer and Photographer Teju Cole to speak at WFU

Posted on October 26, 2018

Teju Cole, photography critic of the New York Times Magazine, will speak at Wake Forest as a part of the Voices of Our Time series. This event will be held Tuesday, October 30th at 6 p.m. at Porter Byrum Welcome Center. It will be free and open to the public. Cole has contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, Granta, Brink, and many other magazines. His photography column at the New York Times Magazine, “On Photography,” was a finalistRead More→

Beyond the Classroom: Support for Student Experiences in Journalism

Posted on October 19, 2018

This spring, the Journalism Program will begin formally offering financial support for students looking to pursue journalistic opportunities outside of Wake Forest’s campus. This initiative, titled “Beyond the Classroom,” will help students interested unpaid internships, more extensive projects, and studying journalism abroad. The Journalism Program will help with scholarships for overseas studies, stipends for students working unpaid internships, travel to report a journalism project overseas or in the U.S., and fees and travel to a journalism conference or workshop. ApplicationsRead More→

Friends of the Free Press, Speakers Bureau

Posted on October 19, 2018

“With journalism and the free press under attack, faculty in the Journalism Program stand ready to speak in defense of the free press, its methods, and its role in a democracy. We are available to speak in classes, with students organizations, or with faculty and staff groups about the practice of journalism or about the areas related to more specific expertise. Please contact us directly.” Speakers include Justin Catanoso, Maria Henson, Woody Hood, Cara Pilson, Mark Rabil, Ivan Weiss, andRead More→

Durham writer Barry Yeoman to teach Magazine Writing

Posted on October 15, 2018

Barry Yeoman, a freelance magazine journalist based in Durham, North Carolina, has joined the adjunct journalism faculty to teach Magazine Writing. Yeoman’s reporting has taken him around the world, from a coastline in India where industrialization threatens traditional fishing families to a training ground in North Carolina for private soldiers on secret missions. His work has appeared in The Nation, Popular Science, Audubon, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, CityLab, National Wildlife, The American Prospect, Texas Monthly, and many other publications.Read More→

Megan Schmit (’18) Working at Providence Media

Posted on October 3, 2018

“My start at Providence Media has been the culmination of everything I’ve worked and hoped for, and more. I knew through my studies at Wake that I wanted to find a career in editorial, and jumped at the offer of an Assistant Editor position at the place I’d previously interned for. It’s been nearly four months now, and my experience has been incredible. Our company publishes four monthlies and a quarterly state-wide magazine, and within my first two months IRead More→

Dorothea Lange Exhibit Comes to Reynolda House

Posted on September 26, 2018

This fall, The Reynolda House is featuring an exhibit called “Dorothea Lange’s America.” Lange was a Depression-era documentary photographer whose work has come to symbolize resilience in the face of 1930’s poverty. Her photographs will be supplemented by other documentarians of the era, including Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Mike Disfarmer. The exhibition will run from September 14 to December 30, 2018. Learn more and buy tickets here: http://reynoldahouse.org/exhibitions/detail/dorothea-langes-america

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