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Inside Dr. Carolina Acosta-Alzuru’s award-winning research and teaching methods

Listen to the full episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Carolina Acosta-Alzuru (MA ’96, PhD ’99) is a professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Grady College and the recent recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award.  In this episode of Grady Research Radio, Acosta-Alzuru takes us through her research path, which focuses on the […]

Annual Woodall Weekend Workshop spotlights Wilkes County

Capturing the essence and personality of a community is the assignment of the Woodall Weekend Workshop each spring. This year, students participating in the 17th annual workshop traveled to Washington, Georgia, in Wilkes County, to document the community. The workshop included 19 students from the Documentary Photojournalism course taught by Mark Johnson, principal lecturer, and […]

AdPR students explore Washington D.C.’s communications industry

The following recount was written by third-year public relations student Margot Murphy. She is involved in Grady College’s Public Affairs Professional Certificate as well as Terry College’s Institute for Leadership Advancement. The week of February 26, a group representing the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Grady College traveled to Washington, D.C., for a […]

Nicholas Eng studies human emotions in environmental and health message design

Nicholas Eng has long been interested in emotion science and prosocial environmental and health messaging. How people respond emotionally to different sequences of positive and negative environmental messages is the focus of his most recent research, “Awesome, Awful: Emotional Flow in Environmental Messaging,” which was published in the December 2023 issue of Media Psychology. “I […]

2024 Fellowship Profile: Mark Schlabach (ABJ ’96)

Mark Schlabach is a senior writer and reporter for ESPN, covering college football and golf. He has worked at the Worldwide Leader in Sports for nearly 18 years, after having previously written for The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Athens Banner-Herald. Schlabach is the author or co-author of more than two dozen books, including six New York Times bestsellers. […]

2024 Levin Leaders Recognized at Cox Institute Spring Leadership Dinner

The Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership presented the Institute’s Leadership Medal to its 2024 class of Levin Leaders. The Levin Leaders were selected for the program from faculty nominations based on their commitment to professional development through work in student media, internships and other student activities. The Leadership Medals were presented during the Institute’s Spring Leadership Dinner held […]

EMST faculty member and 8 students win 2024 BEA Awards

Works created by Matthew Nolte Evans, an assistant professor in Entertainment and Media Studies (EMST), and eight EMST students earned high recognition at the 2024 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts competition.  BEA Faculty Scriptwriting Competition:  BEA Student Scriptwriting Competition:  This year’s competition received a total of 1,885 submissions. There were 355 student […]