Each year, members of the Grady College community gather for Grady Salutes, a celebration and awards ceremony honoring new members of the Grady Fellowship and recipients of Alumni Awards, among others.
Susan Goodenow, executive vice president of marketing & communications for the Chicago Bulls, was inducted into the 2022 Grady Fellowship class on April 29, 2022. (Photos: courtesy of Susan Goodenow)Susan Goodenow (ABJ ’90) is the executive vice president of marketing and communications for the Chicago Bulls, where she is responsible for developing and managing the team’s marketing efforts, directing and integrating all team content and communication and overseeing the team’s community engagement efforts.
Before joining the Bulls in 2012, Goodenow spent four years with the Boston Red Sox as the senior vice president of public affairs and marketing. She has also worked for Major League Baseball/Office of the Commissioner, the American Red Cross and public affairs firms in Washington, D.C.
Reggie Hicks (ABJ ’80) has been a public media professional for over 35 years, having raised millions of dollars as a development professional and having produced the first African American national talk/news and information program on public radio.
Currently, he is the president and executive producer of Straight Street Media, Inc., where he is devoted to producing meaningful documentaries, podcasts, and digital storytelling that affect change in the lives of the underserved.
Reggie Hicks, president of Straight Street Media, Inc., was inducted into the 2022 Grady Fellowship class on April 29, 2022. (Photos: courtesy of Reggie Hicks)
Bob Houghton, president of the Georgia Association Broadcasters, was inducted into the Grady Fellowship April 29, 2022. (Photo: courtesy of Bob Houghton)Bob Houghton is the president of the Georgia Association of Broadcasters. He previously served as the general manager of Georgia Public Broadcasting and the general manager of WGST Radio, the Georgia News Network and the Atlanta Braves Radio Network. Houghton is also a member of the Grady Advisory Board and the Grady Board of Trust.
Alan Massengale (ABJ ’80) was a well-known sports reporter best known for his award winning coverage of Southern California teams, including the Lakers, Angels, Dodgers and Clippers. In 1985, Massengale became an anchor for a new fledging network called ESPN. He was the first Sportscenter anchor to report live from the Masters, Indianapolis 500 and Boston Marathon.
In 1990, Massengale was lured to the nation’s first regional sports network, Prime Ticket. Among his duties, he hosted Press Box, a nightly 30-minute sports report and the first regional sports report of its kind.
In October 1996, Massengale joined Fox Sports Network as anchor for their new network.
Alan Massengale, award-winning sports broadcaster, was inducted into the Grady College Fellowship on April 29, 2022. He died March 12, 2022. (Photos: provided by the Massengale family)
John E. Drewry Young Alumni Award recipient Julia Carpenter is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal (Photo: submitted).Julia Carpenter (ABJ ’13) is currently a reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Carpenter previously worked at CNN and The Washington Post, and her byline has appeared in Glamour, Vogue, New York magazine and other publications.
Carpenter has received several awards for her reporting. In 2019, she was honored with the Excellence in Business Coverage Award from The Association of LGBTQ Journalists for her story “When Work Puts You Back in the Closet,” published in CNN Business. In 2020, she received a Front Page Award in the Personal Service category from the Newswomen’s Club of New York for her reporting in WSJ’s “The New Rules of Money” series.
Julie Wolfe (ABJ ’03) is news director at King 5 Media Group in Seattle. Stations where Wolfe has previously worked include WGRZ in Buffalo, New York, WXIA in Atlanta, and WHAS in Louisville, where she led the news team through award-winning coverage of the Breonna Taylor case and launched its Emmy-winning investigative unit, FOCUS.
Julie Wolfe is the current news director at KING 5 Media Group in Seattle. (Photo: submitted)
Carolina Acosta-Alzuru was honored on April 29 with the the 2022 John Holliman, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award. (Photo: Sarah Freeman)Carolina Acosta-Alzuru (MA ’96, PhD ’99) is a professor of public relations at Grady College, where she teaches courses in public relations campaigns and cultural studies, among others. She is an internationally recognized scholar on telenovelas and has written several books on the subject.
Pat Curtin (MA ’91, PhD ’96) is a professor and endowed chair of public relations at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Curtin has previously taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research encompasses cross-cultural public relations, public relations history and the development of critical/postmodern approaches to public relations theory.
Patricia Curtin was honored on April 29 with the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award. (Photo: courtesy of Pat Curtin)