Program News

Z. Smith Reynolds Library and Journalism Program Faculty Discuss Threat of Mis/Disinformation with Alumni

Posted on April 25, 2024

Original blog post written by Hu Womack and Roz Tedford. It had been four years since we last visited Wake Washington. That visit to present and discuss mis/disinformation happened just weeks before COVID-19, and we promised not to be harbingers of disaster this time! Just to make sure, we changed our topic to “Election Mis/Disinformation: How to Spot it, why it’s Effective, and What We Can Do to Avoid It.” Twenty WFU Alumni and friends joined us on a beautifulRead More→

2024 Bynum G. Shaw Prize Awarded to Maddie Stopyra; Four Finalist Prizes Awarded to Breanna Laws, Shaila Prasad, Bella Ortley-Guthrie, Hope Zhu

Posted on April 25, 2024

Each year, the Journalism Program at Wake Forest University honors a student journalist with the Bynum G. Shaw award. The award is named for Bynum Shaw, a WFU alumnus (’48) who worked as a Washington correspondent, European correspondent and editorial writer for the Baltimore Sun following his graduation. Shaw returned to Wake Forest as a faculty member of journalism and creative writing in 1965 and at his retirement in 1993, friends, colleagues and former students contributed to a fund endowingRead More→

Senior Journalism Minor Secures Reporting Fellowship at The Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted on April 5, 2024

After graduating in May, Journalism minor Christa Dutton (’24) will work as a Reporting Fellow at The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle selects two fellows each year to work as general assignment reporters. Fellows cover a multitude of issues in higher education from student activism to finance to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion legislation. The Chronicle received close to 150 applications this year. Applicants must complete three rounds of interviews, submit five clips to showcase their writing skills, and pitch threeRead More→

New York Times Publishes Journalism Professor Phoebe Zerwick’s Piece on Deathbed Visions

Posted on April 1, 2024

Professor Phoebe Zerwick’s article, “What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living,” was published by the New York Times in mid-March. The piece, which describes hospice physician Chris Kerr’s personal and professional encounters with deathbed visions along with Prof. Zerwick’s own encounter with the phenomenon during her mother’s final moments, has drawn wide engagement since publication, with around 1,400 commenters sharing their own experiences with deathbed visions and what they learned from them. To read Prof. Zerwick’s article, please click here.Read More→

WFU OG&B Collaborates with Universities Across North Carolina for Mental Health Special Edition

Posted on March 28, 2024

The Old Gold & Black recently produced a collaborative special edition with eight other universities across North Carolina. The topic of the special edition was mental health through a solutions journalism lens. Senior Writer for the OG&B and Journalism minor Christa Dutton (’24) writes about the special edition: “When the most senior members of our staff arrived on campus in 2020, social distancing and quarantine policies kept us safe but also destroyed morale. With nowhere on campus to gather, studentsRead More→

Journalism Students’ Film “Welcome(d)” To Be Screened at Wakeville 2024 and RiverRun International Film Festival

Posted on March 28, 2024

A film co-produced by four Wake Forest students will be screened at WFU’s interdisciplinary art festival, Wakeville, on April 6th at 2:30pm in Scales Fine Arts Center room M208. The film will also be screened at the RiverRun International Film Festival on April 26th at 5:30pm in the Hanesbrand Theater. More details, as well as the link to purchase tickets, can be found here: https://riverrunfilm.com/events/northcarolinashortsprogramthreewinstonstories/. The film, Welcome(d), is a short advocacy film produced for Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR) atRead More→

Author of “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Jerusalem Tragedy,” Nathan Thrall, To Visit WFU

Posted on March 26, 2024

The Journalism Program is excited to announce that it will be co-sponsoring a talk with journalist Nathan Thrall, author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Jerusalem Tragedy on Thursday, April 18 at 6:00 in the Byrum Welcome Center at Wake Forest University (1580 Wake Forest Rd. Winston-Salem, NC 27109). Named one of the top books of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, The Economist, and The New Republic, A Day in the Life is a micro-study of a single day in EastRead More→

Looking for Summer Courses? Journalism is Offering JOU 335: Multimedia Storytelling in Summer Session I

Posted on March 26, 2024

Interested in taking classes over the summer? Need another course to finish your Journalism minor? Look no further! Reminder: Registration for Summer Session I and Summer Session II 2024 is still in WIN; fall 2024 course registration will be through Workday.

Journalism Program Prepares for Fall 2024 Classes

Posted on March 22, 2024

The time has already come for continuing students to start thinking about registration for fall classes! The Journalism Program is offering eight courses on Reynolda Campus in the fall, the course descriptions for which can be found here. Students will be using Workday Student to register for fall classes starting April 1st as the university transitions away from WIN and Banner. Resources for students, faculty, and staff, including working aids and a list of training dates, can be found onRead More→

Prof. Phoebe Zerwick’s book, Beyond Innocence, selected for 2024 North Carolina Reads

Posted on February 12, 2024

Journalism Director Phoebe Zerwick’s Beyond Innocence, The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt, by Jornalism director, is this month’s section for the NC Humanities Council statewide book club NC Reads. Register here for a zoom discussion Feb. 27.

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