McGill Program for Journalistic Courage

The McGill program honors Ralph McGill’s courage as editor of The Atlanta Constitution. McGill was regarded as the “conscience of the south” for his editorials challenging racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for “long, courageous, effective leadership.”

For four decades, the McGill Lecture has brought significant figures in journalism to the University of Georgia to help us honor Ralph McGill’s courage as an editor.

In 2007, we added the McGill Symposium, bringing together students, faculty and leading journalists to consider what journalistic courage means and how it is exemplified by reporters and editors.

In 2009, we awarded the first McGill Medal to a U.S. journalist whose career has exemplified journalistic courage.

All of this is for a single purpose: to advance journalistic courage.

Support McGill

Your gift to the McGill Lecture and Endowment Fund helps us sustain our effort to advance journalistic courage and carry it forward. Gifts support all McGill Programs, the McGill Lecture, McGill Symposium and McGill Medal.

Please make checks payable to The UGA Foundation McGill Lecture and Endowment Fund.

Mail your gift to:

DIANE MURRAY
McGill Program
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-3018

All UGA Foundation gifts are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Contact Us

For more information about the McGill Lecture, Symposium and Medal:

DIANE MURRAY
706.542.5038
murrayd@uga.edu