Justin Catanoso is a North Carolina-based journalist with 30 years of experience in covering climate change, health care, economic development and travel. He is a regular correspondent for MongaBay, a leading environmental news online site with an international following.
Catanoso is a professor of Journalism and Associate Professor of the Practice at Wake Forest University. He has served as the Director of Journalism since 2011. He teaches courses in reporting and editing, and serves as adviser to the student newspaper. Since 2014, he has lead a summer course in international reporting for Wake Forest students. He taught in Rome, Italy, for three years — 2014-2016. The course moved to the Peruvian Amazon in summer 2017. His were the first study abroad courses in journalism that Wake Forest had ever offered.
Education
M.A. in Liberal Studies
Wake Forest University
(1989-1993)
B.A. in Journalism
Penn State University
(1978-1982)