Journalism students contributed significant research to an hour-long WFDD program, On the Margins, which has won a regional Murrow Award for the “News Documentary” category. 

Five WFU journalism students joined the effort through an independent study led by adjunct instructor Mandy Locke. The students built a database that allowed WFDD reporters to quantify the role that the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem played in evictions. The students visited eviction court and helped interview tenants on the verge of losing their homes.

The program “explores the lasting legacy of discriminatory lending called redlining, the high number of evictions in our region and the toll on those facing it, and how the safety net that is supposed to protect our most vulnerable citizens played a major role in the problem,” according to the WFDD site. The same page describes the project as “a result of a unique collaboration of print and radio journalists, university researchers, and students to add data, depth, and investigative muscle to this project.”