Five of Professor Phoebe Zerwick’s Community Journalism students, Bella Ortley-Guthrie (’24), Yushuo Wang (’24), Christa Dutton (’24), Cassie Tan (’24), and Aine Pierre (’24) covered the local 2022 mid-term elections.
We are proud to announce that two journalism minors, David Ajamy and Bri Carney, delivered orations at the 2019 Senior Colloquium. Faculty-nominated student speakers present essays about unusual insights or critiques of culture learned during their time at Wake Forest. Ten of the submissions, including David and Bri, were chosen as finalists to be presented at the colloquium. David’s speech, “Home,” and Bri’s “Love and Spreadsheets” can be found below. “Home,” David Ajamy II Prior to coming to college, noRead More→
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→
As Wake Forest’s Pulitzer Fellow this year, I was able to travel to Thailand to report on the role of Buddhist monks in the Thai environmental movement. The Buddhist religion is deeply integrated into daily life throughout Thailand and Buddhist monks are stepping up not only as spiritual guides, but as environmental leaders. Many of these monks, known as “ecology monks,” are using their position of respect in society to add a moral dimension to the Thai environmental movement andRead More→
Erin Stephens and Heather Hartel have been awarded the Bynum Shaw Prize in Journalism. Megan Schmit was recognized as a finalist for the award. This annual journalism award is named for Bynum Shaw, a WFU graduate who worked as a Washington Correspondent, European Correspondent, and editorial writer for the Baltimore Sun before returning to Wake in 1965 to run the journalism and creative writing programs. Shaw inspired a generation of journalism students, many of whom went on to distinguished careers. HisRead More→
Junior Kiley Price received the 2018 Pulitzer Center Student Fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. With this $3000 grant, Price will be traveling to Thailand in May to research the role and impact of activist Buddhists in the Thai environmental movement. See more about Price here.
Megan Schmit (’18) worked as an editorial intern with Providence Media Group in Pawtucket, RI last summer. During her four months there, Schmit got the chance to apply the skills she learned in her journalism courses at Wake Forest to real pieces that were published in five different local magazines. She got to interview many interesting people, research stories, pitch her own ideas, and even write a feature! “The experience was invaluable and was a culmination of all my workRead More→
Today WFDD shared select works from Phoebe Zerwick’s Community Journalism course on their website.Throughout the semester, students produced local journalism for the online publication Heard it Here. WFDD highlighted stories by Erin Stephens (’18), Jessica Clifford (’20), Stephen Bechtel (’19), and Meredith Happy (’20).
Suyash Keshari is a nature and wildlife photographer from New Delhi, India. He is a senior pursuing a major in Politics and International Affairs and minor in journalism. You can find Keshari’s award-winning work here on his website. He recently created the podcast “A Tiger Story Worth Telling.” You can find his first wildlife documentary, On the Trail of the African Lion, here. You can find his story for Nature InFocus here.
Lila Franco (’18) served as a Student Fellow at the Pulitzer Center last year. She is majoring in communication with a minor in psychology. As a native of Venezuela, Franco has always been concerned with human rights, given the poor social stability of the country. She moved to the United States two years ago and wants to pursue a career in organizational development that helps to create sustainable societies. She has a passion for language, and apart from being fluent inRead More→
