From publisher Simon and Schuster: “From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our … Continued
Five Duke students have been honored with the annual DeWitt Wallace Center awards for excellence in journalism. Cameron Beach, a 2020 graduate, won the top honors in the Melcher Family … Continued
Stephen Buckley, a veteran editor and educator who worked at The Washington Post, Tampa Bay Times and the Poynter Institute, has been chosen as one of two new Eugene C. … Continued
Frank Bruni, long-time journalist and columnist for the New York Times and the author of multiple best-selling books, has been chosen as one of two new Eugene C. Patterson Professors … Continued
Napoli to lead DeWitt Wallace Center in July 2021 Philip M. Napoli, the James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy, will become the new director of the DeWitt Wallace … Continued
Margaret Sullivan, the media columnist for the Washington Post, will join the faculty of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy to teach a course in the spring semester.
The News Measures Research Project (NMRP) team, a research initiative led by Shepley Professor Philip Napoli, has published new findings from a study that measures the health and rigor of … Continued
Peter Applebome, a reporter and editor whose journalism career spanned 40 years, was honored April 16 with the DeWitt Wallace Center’s Futrell Award for Outstanding Achievement in Communications and Journalism. … Continued
Peter Applebome believes a journalist’s job is, above all else, to tell people’s stories. “A lot of our job is to capture the culture,” the Duke alumnus said. “In its … Continued
Fox News’ top-rated host Bill O’Reilly made an unusual call to The New York Times in 2015, after a reporter had questioned his Falklands War coverage. When he got … Continued
Photo courtesy of The New York Times Peter Applebome, a Duke University alumnus who works as a writer and reporter for The New York Times, has been named the 2018 … Continued
Photo courtesy of Andrew Tan-Delli Cicchi Recent Duke University graduate Andrew Tan-Delli Cicchi has been awarded the 2017 Melcher Family Award for Excellence in Journalism, which annually recognizes an undergraduate … Continued
Seventeen years ago, the DeWitt Wallace Center honored TV host Charlie Rose with the Futrell Award, which is given annually to recognize an outstanding Duke graduate working in journalism. The … Continued
Megan McArdle, a columnist at Bloomberg View and Duke University’s Pamela and Jack Egan Visiting Professor, joined Ross Douthat, columnist at the New York Times, for the Nov. 8 conversation … Continued
When he was 15 years old, Daniel Lippman interrogated White House officials about trade agreements and energy policy. He queried the attorney general about the Patriot Act and asked Neil … Continued
In our ongoing Alumni Spotlight series, current Duke undergraduate students write profiles of university alumni who pursued careers in journalism. Below, junior Daniela Flamini writes about Julia Love ’11, who … Continued
Journalism conferences can be pretty gloomy these days. With topics such as the rise of fake news, the decline in public trust and the plunge in ad revenue, the meetings … Continued
Although there is plenty of fact-checking being done at the local level — particularly during the 2016 election — news organizations are making it too hard for readers to track … Continued
As the chief White House correspondent for NBC News, Hallie Jackson covers a president who is known for making false statements — while attacking journalists for delivering “fake news” to … Continued
This week, we’re launching our Alumni Spotlight series, in which current Duke undergraduate students write profiles of university alumni who pursued careers in journalism. Below, junior Bill McCarthy writes about … Continued
The day seemed to be winding down for NBC’s Hallie Jackson and her fellow White House reporters when Donald Trump’s staff issued a “lid” signaling that the president-elect would not … Continued
Bill Adair, director of the DeWitt Wallace Center, gave the keynote speech at the 2017 First Amendment Day, held Sept. 26 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. … Continued
Andrew Kragie, a Duke University alumnus and metro reporter for the Houston Chronicle, joined students and faculty via Skype Sept. 22 to discuss his experience covering Hurricane Harvey. The conversation … Continued
Dillon Fernando, a senior at Duke University, spent the summer interning at Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, the late-night comedy series on TBS that offers weekly political commentary. Fernando wrote … Continued
Megan McArdle, the newest professor in the DeWitt Wallace Center, is an unusual voice in the Sanford School of Public Policy. She’s a libertarian who is critical of Obamacare ― … Continued
Anna Kaul, a rising senior and public policy major at Duke University, spent the summer interning at Frontline, the public affairs television program that produces in-depth documentaries. She wrote the … Continued
A newly released report from The Reporters’ Lab: Heroes or hacks? The partisan divide over fact-checking
Reporters’ Lab researchers tested the AI’s fact checking knowledge using the new Amazon Echo feature, Share the Facts.
Patterson Professor Philip Bennett joins FRONTLINE as Special Projects Editor working on the series’ political and policy films. He will also supervise the FRONTLINE Transparency Project, a collaboration with DWC … Continued
Megan McArdle, a columnist at Bloomberg View, has been named the Pamela and Jack Egan Visiting Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy and the School of Arts and … Continued
On April 6, the DeWitt Wallace Center awarded its annual Futrell Award for Outstanding Achievement in Communications and Journalism to Craig Whitlock (T’90), an investigative reporter at The Washington Post. Here … Continued
Craig Whitlock, a Duke alumnus who works as an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, is this year’s winner of the Futrell Award for Outstanding Achievement in Communications and Journalism. … Continued
“How We Got Here: The Rise of Political Polarization” event from Jan. 19 has been uploaded to Youtube! Featuring Professor Philip Bennett, Washington Post’s Chief Correspondent Dan Balz, and GQ … Continued
Professor Phil Bennett helped develop new software that allows viewers to directly interact with FRONTLINE’s documentary “Trump’s Road to the White House.” Viewers can see source documents for portions of … Continued
Missed the colloquium? Never fear! We have a full recording of the event here. Also, Philip Bennett (moderator of the colloquium) interviewed each panelist about standout encounters in their coverage of … Continued
Thursday, Sept. 22 Satire Festival’s kickoff panel highlights influence of political cartoons — or lack thereof Duke University’s Political Cartoon and Satire Festival began Thursday morning in Reynolds Theater, … Continued
Jeremy Bowers, a data journalist at the New York Times, has joined the DeWitt Wallace Center to teach the upcoming fall course “Journalism in the Age of Data.”The hands-on class … Continued
Twenty students from Duke’s 2016 graduating class earned the Policy Journalism & Media Studies certificate. Congratulations grads- We will miss you in the fall, and look forward to learning where … Continued
“He was here during Terry Sanford’s first years, and he really did guide that strategy for getting all kinds of press coverage at Duke. The difference between Duke before Sanford and Duke after Sanford is just astonishing in terms of the degree to which Duke was in the news.” Joel Fleishman
Laura C. Gentile, the Duke alumna who founded espnW, ESPN’s first business dedicated to women, is this year’s recipient of the Futrell Award for Outstanding Achievement in Communications and Journalism.
“I love the fact that espnW [is] really filling a void, and one not everybody saw. That for future generations of athletes and young girls, they now have a place to look to see women doing amazing things. Not only as athletes, but leading from a business perspective and supporting one another and setting a different tone about the role that women can play in sports.”
The 2015 grad’s article for Towerview dissected the university’s decision-making in an episode that sparked protests and headlines.
I really love Duke, and because I love it I’m open to holding its leaders accountable.
A recent article in Nieman Reports cites Duke Reporters’ Lab research and projects, including fact-checking data, the Lab’s Share the Facts widget, and a new Lab partnership with the digital … Continued
Senior Shannon Beckham knows the path from Duke to the White House. In three years, she’s gone from being a student in a DeWitt Wallace course to working in the office of presidential speechwriting. Here’s how she did it.
For a story on the phenomenon of juice cleanses, Shaker consumed 18 bottles of juice over three days — and lived to tell about it. For a magazine article on the Duke baseball team, Shaker tried out for the team even though he had never played the game before.
