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WFU Alumna and Journalism Minor Mankaprr Conteh (’17) Publishes 2nd Cover Story for Rolling Stone

Posted on May 30, 2023

Mankaprr Conteh (’17), a staff writer for Rolling Stone who minored in Journalism while studying at WFU, has published her 2nd cover story for Rolling Stone on May 22, 2023. This latest story is on Janelle Monáe, detailing the artist’s growth and development leading up to her latest album, which is set to debut later this year. To read Conteh’s full cover story, please click here.

Reporting and Bonding – One Weekend “Out East” with the Deep Dive: Environmental Justice Class

Posted on May 23, 2023

The below is a group piece written by the Journalism Program’s Spring 2023 Deep Dive: Environmental Justice students and professor Melba Newsome as a reflection on their reporting trip taken in March 2023. Our Environmental Journalism class, Deep Dive: Environmental Justice, traveled to Lumberton, North Carolina, in late March to learn first-hand what it’s like in one of North Carolina’s most economically depressed and environmentally besieged counties. Hog farming. The multi-billion dollar industry comes at a gigantic cost to easternRead More→

Prof. Barry Yeoman’s Story on Louisiana Tribe’s Fight Against Climate Change Published in Harvard Public Health Magazine

Posted on May 23, 2023

Journalism adjunct professor Barry Yeoman’s story “Reclamation Project” was published in Harvard Public Health Magazine on May 19, 2023. It’s about Devon Parfait, the 25-year-old chief of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, who is working to prevent coastal land loss on the Louisiana Gulf Coast from harming his tribe. “I’ve been covering Native American tribes in Louisiana since the 2010 BP oil spill, and feel compelled to continue writing about them, because they are at the front linesRead More→

Journalism Student Stories Published on WFDD

Posted on May 15, 2023

This spring semester, students in Professor Paul Garber’s On the Air with WFDD course took a beat coverage focus, with each student covering a county in North Carolina, to explore stories they were curious about in areas that have historically been news deserts in WFDD’s listening area. Below are some of the stories that were published. Keep an eye out for more to come! Aria Heyneman (’25) covered the High Point furniture market. Her interview with new Market AuthorityRead More→

Wake Forest Junior Una Wilson Wins Pulitzer Center Fellowship

Posted on May 12, 2023

The Pulitzer Center has selected junior Una Wilson as Wake Forest’s 2023 Reporting Fellow. She will receive a $3000 stipend to report on the impact of community gardens on poor communities near Mumbai, India. The title of her research project is “Mumbai slum gardeners plant seeds to save lives.” In her application to the Pulitzer Center, Wilson highlighted the massive population growth in urban industrial cities worldwide and how these densely populated areas are creating public health concerns. “Unstable constructionRead More→

Journalism Program Adjunct Instructor Robert Samuels Wins Pulitzer for Best General Non-Fiction

Posted on May 10, 2023

“His Name is George Floyd,” a non-fiction book co-authored by WFU Journalism Program adjunct and former Washington Post reporter Robert Samuels, was awarded a Pulitzer this Monday, May 8th, 2023, for best general non-fiction. Samuels, who was in conversation at WFU last fall about “His Name is George Floyd,“ is now a staff writer at The New Yorker and will be teaching a deep dive course for WFU during the fall 2023 semester titled, “The American Dilemma: Race, Reporting andRead More→

2023 Bynum G. Shaw Prize Awarded to Christa Dutton; Finalist Prizes Awarded to Aine Pierre and Will Zimmerman

Posted on April 26, 2023

The below are remarks from Ivan Weiss, Interim-Director of the Journalism Program at WFU, and Phoebe Zerwick, Director of the Journalism Program, on the students being recognized for the Bynum G. Shaw prize this year. Please join us in congratulating our winner, Christa Dutton, and finalists, Aine Pierre and Will Zimmerman! (Prof. Ivan Weiss) “A few weeks ago, as many of you know, my wife Stephanie and I had a daughter. Along with having a healthy baby that doesn’t cry tooRead More→

Journalism Minor Nick Hayman (’23) Published on NBC Sports

Posted on March 29, 2023

Nick Hayman (’23), a WFU Journalism minor, was recently published on NBC Sports with a story originally written during Prof. Barry Yeoman’s Magazine Writing class in Spring 2022. Hayman’s story, which you can read here, revisits WFU Women’s Golf athlete Rachel Kuehn’s (’23) experience at the Augusta Women’s National Amateur in 2022 and provides thoughtful insight into the professional, as well as recreational, growth of women’s golf over the last decade. On his decision to pursuing publishing the story, HaymanRead More→

Wake Forest OG&B Wins Two National Honors at College Media Association Conference

Posted on March 14, 2023

The Old Gold & Black recently traveled to New York City for the College Media Association’s national spring conference and returned with two national honors. An Old Gold & Black opinion piece written by Opinion Editor Lauren Carpenter while she was still a staff writer earned first place in the opinion category. In the article, she shares her story of surviving sexual assault. With brilliance and courage, she writes about the post-traumatic stress that made her social and academic lifeRead More→

Apply Now to Join the WFU Environmental and Epistemic Justice Summer Institute!

Posted on February 23, 2023

The Journalism Program is pleased to announce the launch of the Wake Forest University Environmental and Epistemic Justice Summer Institute! The Wake Forest University Environmental and Epistemic Justice Initiative is a multi-pronged Mellon Foundation funded research, teaching, and community engagement project that places at its center environmental and epistemic justice. The Initiative critically examines how and in what ways race and regimes of racial knowledge shape and inform our scholarly practices, public policies, and normative concerns. The Initiative will hostRead More→

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