Faculty Work

New Hire: Ivan Weiss

Posted on March 25, 2018

Ivan Weiss, previously an adjunct, has been hired as an assistant professor of the practice. Weiss is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and photographer.  For Weiss, this is a new chapter in his life and a chance to be a part of a new community. “I’m glad I now have the opportunity to take what I’ve learned and put it in a way that people can better understand and learn from,” said Weiss.  Watch his documentary entitled “Festival: A Month in Durham”Read More→

Tommy Tomlinson Hosts New Podcast “SouthBound”

Posted on November 14, 2017

Tommy Tomlinson is an adjunct professor at Wake teaching Magazine Writing, and contributes to national magazines like Esquire, ESPN The Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, Reader’s Digest, Southern Living and Garden & Gun. This week he is launching a podcast by WFAE (an NPR affiliate) in Charlotte titled “SouthBound,” centered on conversations with people from the South from all walks of life. Find more of Tomlinson’s work on his website. 

Justin Catanoso Reporting from his fourth United Nations Climate Summit (COP23)

Posted on November 12, 2017

Justin Catanoso teaches journalism courses and regularly contributes to Mongabay with a focus on climate change. He will be reporting for Mongabay at his fourth United Nations Climate Summit in Bonn, Germany this week.  He has published five pieces so far that can be found on the Mongabay website here or on his personal website. He has also been live tweeting from the Summit. 

Jordan Green Addresses Political Extremism, Culture Wars and Race Relations

Posted on June 4, 2017

Jordan Green is the senior editor of Triad City Beat and has also had his work appear in The Nation, The Guardian and Scalawag. His interests include political extremism, rural America, race relations, poverty, voting rights and culture wars.  He addressed the protests in Charlottesville in his piece “In Charlottesville, It Felt Like the Confederacy Was Trying to Rise Again” for The Nation.  Green wrote about a conservative activists’ gathering in Kernersville for Triad City Beat in “Local Conservative Activists PrepareRead More→

Phoebe Zerwick Writes About Abortion, Darryl Hunt and Refugees

Posted on February 15, 2017

Phoebe Zerwick, Program Director and Associate Professor of journalism, has written for a range of magazine publications and produces web-based documentary. Her piece “The Rise of the DIY Abortion” for Glamour magazine features the voices of women who had taken matters into their own hands to end an unwanted pregnancy.  She explores Darryl Hunt’s life after exoneration in “The Last Days of Darryl Hunt.” Zerwick gets close with a refugee family in National Geographic‘s “Fleeing War, a Syrian Family Makes aRead More→

Maria Henson Addresses Domestic Violence in Kentucky

Posted on September 10, 2016

Maria Henson is a part-time lecturer in journalism and oversees Wake Forest Magazine. She also serves on Advancement’s senior leadership team. Henson joined Wake Forest as Associate Vice President and Editor-at-Large in June 2010.   In 1991, Henson wrote a series of investigative editorials entitled “To Have and To Harm” that addressed the trials faced by battered women in Kentucky. For this, Henson was awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.   Read about her motivation for this seriesRead More→

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