McGill Lecture & Symposium

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.”

The McGill program is growing.

For nearly 40 years, 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.

Contribute to McGill

For 30 years, the McGill program has brought significant figures in journalism to the University of Georgia to help us honor Ralph McGill’s courage as an editor and to advance journalistic courage.

Your gift will help us sustain this effort and carry it forward.

Gifts to the McGill Lecture and Endowment Fund support all McGill programs: the McGill Lecture, the McGill Symposium, and the McGill Medal – all on behalf of advancing journalistic courage.

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