Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management & Leadership
Cox Institute for Journalism
Innovation, Management & Leadership
The James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership at the Grady College prepares students and professionals for leadership roles in the news media. By sponsoring intensive training programs and funding applied research, the Cox Institute is at the forefront of addressing the strategic challenges faced by contemporary news organizations.
Through Digital Natives and skills-based events in the Journalism Innovation Lab, the Cox Institute creates initiatives to develop products, practices and people of the industry’s future.
The Journalism Leadership Lab offers top journalism students the opportunity to study leadership development through programs such as Levin Leaders and The Lead podcast.
The Cox Institute’s Journalism Writing Lab provides opportunities to be published and produce compelling storytelling in the media industry through programs such as Covering Poverty.
Faculty and Staff
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Jonathan Peters
Department Head, Associate Professor
ABOUT Dr. Jonathan Peters is the head of the Department of Journalism and holds a faculty appointment in the School of Law. He teaches and researches media law and policy. […]
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Keith Herndon
William S. Morris Chair in News Strategy and Management; Executive Director, James M. Cox Jr. Institute and Professor of Practice in Journalism
About: Dr. Herndon teaches the introductory course Media, News and Consumers, Business of News, Financial Journalism and Food Journalism as a special topics course and as independent study. He holds […]
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Amanda Bright
Senior Academic Professional; Director, Cox Institute Journalism Innovation Lab
ABOUT Amanda Bright teaches capstone journalism and news literacy classes and digital design. She serves as the managing editor for Newsource’s digital products and is the instructor and assistant editor for The Oglethorpe […]
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Lori Johnston
Lecturer; Director, Cox Institute Journalism Writing Lab
About: Lori Johnston teaches a variety of journalism classes, including reporting and writing across platforms, religion reporting, home and garden reporting, critical writing, feature writing and investigative reporting. View Curriculum Vitae […]
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Charlotte Norsworthy Varnum
Part-time Instructor; program coordinator, News Literacy Certificate
Charlotte Norsworthy Varnum (ABJ ’19, MA ’20) is a part-time instructor at Grady College and serves as program coordinator for the Cox Institute’s News Literacy Certificate. Varnum is also executive […]
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Jacqueline GaNun
Graduate Assistant, Cox Institute
Jacqueline GaNun (ABJ ’23) is pursing her master’s degree in journalism as a Morris Master’s Fellow. She has served as the editor-in-chief of The Red & Black and the host […]
Board of Advisers
The Cox Institute is engaged with a variety of partners and collaborators. We appreciate the support we receive from everyone involved with our work. We also want to recognize the special contributions of the following industry and academic professionals who serve as advisers to our programs.
Bob Sullivan, chair
Bob Sullivan is a veteran journalist and author of five books, including The New York Times bestsellers,“Gotcha Capitalism” and “Stop Getting Ripped Off.” He has won the Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award, a Peabody award, a Webby award, a Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Cybersecurity Journalism Award and the Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness Consumer Media Service Award. He spent nearly two decades working at MSNBC.com and NBC News, and still appears on TODAY, NBC Nightly News and CNBC. He’s now a syndicated columnist and host of AARP’s “The Perfect Scam” podcast, co-host of the podcast / audio documentary “Breach,” which examines history’s biggest hacking stories, and co-host of the podcast “So, Bob,” which tackles stories about the unintended consequences of technology. His latest podcast is called “Debugger,” exploring issues at the intersection of technology and democracy, produced in cooperation with Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics.
Advisers
Brittany L. Adams-Pope, Ph.D. Public Service Faculty, UGA J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development | Pallavi Gogoi Chief Business Editor, NPR |
Nick Chiles Cox Institute Industry Fellow, 2020 Journalism Writing Lab | Richard T. Griffiths Cox Institute Industry Fellow, 2017 Georgia First Amendment Foundation CNN, retired |
Craig Douglas Senior Director of News, American City Business Journals | Joanna Ossinger Markets Editor, Bloomberg News |
Ken Foskett Cox Institute Industry Fellow, 2022 Georgia First Amendment Foundation The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, retired | Polina Marinova Pompliano Founder and Author, The Profile |
Marilyn Geewax Cox Institute Industry Fellow, 2018 NPR, retired | Kendall Trammell Senior Producer, CNN Digital |
Amy Glennon Cox Institute Industry Fellow, 2019 Formerly with Cox Media Group | Kamille Whittaker Cox Institute Industry Fellow, 2023 Co-Founder, Canopy Atlanta Assistant Professor, Clark Atlanta University |
The Institute’s Legacy
The Cox Institute was established in 1990 by the late Conrad Fink, a legendary journalism professor in the Grady College. It is named for the late James M. Cox Jr., who headed Cox Enterprises and Cox Broadcasting Corporation from 1957 until 1974.
A beloved professor for 30 years following a successful career as an international journalist and news executive, Fink taught generations of journalism students how to report the news and manage journalism businesses ethically, responsibly and profitably. A no-nonsense professor with formidable bushy eyebrows, Fink trained students to write for and manage news companies from Amarillo, Texas, to London and Beijing.
Fink, who held the William S. Morris Chair in Newspaper Strategy and Management at Grady College, created a unique newspaper management curriculum, developed a residence program for visiting professional journalists and recently spearheaded the creation of an endowed program in sports journalism.
“Grady College mourns the passing of Conrad Fink,” said E. Culpepper Clark, then dean of the UGA Grady College. “Conrad was a lion of journalism, respected and beloved by generations of students, alumni, colleagues and media leaders. He reported during the golden age of newspapers but also embraced the brave new world of digital journalism. He was a citizen of the world with intense devotion to every student who sat across a table from him.”
Fink was appointed professor at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1983. In 1990 he became the director of the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Newspaper Management Studies. He was named William S. Morris Professor of Newspaper Strategy and Management in 1995 and held the Morris Chair at his death.
Institute Happenings
Kyser Lough named director of UGA’s Certificate in News Literacy
Kyser Lough, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Georgia’s Grady College, is joining the faculty of the Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership and will […]
Richard T. Griffiths establishes support fund for Student Innovation in Journalism
Richard T. Griffiths, formerly a news executive with CNN, has established a support fund for Grady College journalism students engaged in innovation projects. Students receiving the support will be known […]
Students combat election misinformation at What the Hackathon
As the U.S. continues through another election cycle, University of Georgia students learned how to identify and combat election-related misinformation at the spring 2024 What the Hackathon. The event was […]
Journalism Innovation Lab team finishes third in national innovation competition
The Journalism Innovation Lab’s second student innovation team, from the University of Georgia’s Cox Institute of Innovation, Management and Leadership, finished in the top three teams in the nation in […]
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 […]
Students Learn to Fight Misinformation in Real Time at Hackathon, Featuring Adam Levin and Seana Davis
Listen to a special episode of The Lead, featuring coverage of the Hackathon and an interview with Adam Levin. University of Georgia students learned firsthand how to fight misinformation at […]
Cox-SABEW Fellows Attend Skills Workshop at Wall Street Journal
Three University of Georgia journalism students attended this year’s SkillUp workshop sponsored by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW). The students, Lilly Kersh, Allison Mawn and Dawn […]
Covering Poverty Writers Collaborate With Students in India for Inaugural Journalism Partnership at UGA
Six students in the Cox Institute’s Journalism Writing Lab will work this semester with students in India to produce multimedia stories published in both countries in the inaugural U.S./India Reporting […]
Herndon Named to UGA’s Inaugural Fellows for Transformative Teaching Program
Dr. Keith Herndon, the William S. Morris Chair in News Strategy and Management, was named to the University of Georgia’s inaugural Fellows for Transformative Teaching program. The program, operated by […]
Inaugural Cox Institute Showcase Celebrates Student Work
Students in the Cox Institute’s Journalism Innovation and Writing Labs were recognized on April 21 for their work during the 2022–23 school year. They received a medal, certificate and a […]
Past News
- Students Learn to Fight Misinformation in Real Time at Hackathon, Featuring Adam Levin and Seana Davis
- Cox-SABEW Fellows Attend Skills Workshop at Wall Street Journal
- Covering Poverty Writers Collaborate With Students in India for Inaugural Journalism Partnership at UGA
- The Lead Podcast Publishes 100th Episode
- Herndon Named to UGA’s Inaugural Fellows for Transformative Teaching Program
- Inaugural Cox Institute Showcase Celebrates Student Work
- Students Combat Disinformation in Cox Institute’s First What the Hackathon
- Kentucky Kernel wins Betty Gage Holland Award for 2022
- 2023 Levin Leaders Recognized at Cox Institute Spring Leadership Dinner
- Cox Institute’s Digital Natives program completes 3rd year
- Kamille Whittaker Named 2023 Industry Fellow
- Cox-SABEW Fellows Attend NYC Workshop
- The Lead Podcast Launches 13th Season
- Work by Cox Institute Graduate Assistants Presented at Leadership Conference
- Herndon Serves as Judge in the 2022 James Beard Awards
- Teams and Fellow Innovate with News Organizations in Spring 2022
- The Lead Podcast Names its New Host for Fall 2022
- The 2022 Levin Leaders Receive their Cox Institute Leadership Medals
- Journalism Innovation Lab Team Finishes in Top 6 in Nationwide Competition
- Indiana Daily Student Wins Betty Gage Holland Award for 2021
- Ken Foskett Named Cox Institute’s Industry Fellow for 2022
- Kyra Posey Wins Award from Georgia Association of Broadcasters
- Cox Institute Announces New University Certificate in News Literacy Starting Fall 2022
- Cox Institute Launches 2nd Year of Digital Natives Program
- Cox Institute Names 2021 SABEW Fellows
- UGA Student Earns Poynter ACES Certificate in Editing
- The Lead Podcast Welcomes New Graduate Assistant as Host for Fall 2021
- Cox Institute Adds New Directors, Initiatives to Benefit Students, Industry
- Cox Institute’s Podcast Work Featured on Leadership Podcast
- Collaboration Led by Cox Institute Wins Distinguished Paper Award at ALE Conference
- Cox Institute Director Completes CTL Writing Fellowship
- UGA Journalism Student Awarded Internship Funded by Scripps Howard Foundation
- Cox Institute Graduate Assistant Earns Poynter ACES Certificate in Editing
- Cox Institute Journalism Innovation Lab Relaunches Online Poverty Reporting Toolkit
- 2021 Levin Leaders Receive Cox Institute Leadership Medals
- Cox Institute Director Featured as Strategy Podcast Guest
- Grad Students Publish White Papers with Cox Institute
- Cox Institute Announces 2020 Cox-SABEW Fellows
- The Red & Black Wins 2020 Betty Gage Holland Award
- Cox Institute Grad Assistants Present Papers at Leadership Conference
- Scripps Howard Foundation Awards Grant to Fund Cox Institute’s Reporting Project
- Cox Institute’s eBook from The Lead Podcast Wins Gold Medals
- The Lead Podcast Welcomes New Student Host for Fall 2020
- Norsworthy Awarded 2 Industry Scholarships
- The Lead Podcast Wins 1st Place in SPJ Regional Awards
- Cox Institute Recognizes 2020 Levin Leaders, Awards Scholarships at Spring Leadership Dinner
- Paul Pagnato Advises UGA Students to Prepare for Unprecedented Change
- Cox Institute Hosts NewsCraft20
- NewsCraft20: Schedule Announced for Covering Culture
- Nick Chiles Named Cox Institute’s Industry Fellow for 2020
- Cox Institute Releases eBook Compilation of Interviews from The Lead Podcast
- Grady Students Complete 2019 Cox-SABEW Fellowships
- 2019 Mobile News Lab Finishes with Project Showcase
- Cox Institute’s Norsworthy Inducted into Sphinx Society, UGA’s Highest Student Honor
- Grady’s SPJ Wins Outstanding Chapter for Region 3
- Cox Institute Hosts 2019 Entrepreneurial Journalism Symposium
- Cox Institute Launches Grady Writing Lab with Nick Chiles
- University of North Alabama’s Flor-Ala Newspaper Honored with Betty Gage Holland Award
- Cox Institute Presents Innovative Practice Paper at ALE Conference
- Cox Institute and Newsy Expand Student Training Relationship
- Cox Institute Director Receives Grady’s Darwin-Davis Award
- Cox Innovation Fellowship Features Largest Summer Group
- Morris Chair Establishes Morris Media Fellows Program in 2019
- Cox Institute’s Norsworthy Recognized for Academics and Work Performance
- Grady Journalism Students Participate in Collegiate Leadership Competition
- Cox Institute Director Receives UGA Creative Teaching Award
- Cox Institute Recognizes Inaugural Class of Levin Leaders at Spring Leadership Dinner
- NEWSCRAFT 19: A Workshop on Reporting, Writing, Pitching and Selling News
2018
- 6 Grady Students Held Cox Innovation Fellowships in Summer and Fall Terms
- Glennon to Serve as Cox Institute’s 2019 Industry Fellow
- Grady Students Complete 2018 Cox-SABEW Fellowships
- Journalism Students Complete 2018 Cox Institute Mobile News Lab
- Cox Institute Will Unveil Levin Leaders Initiative in January
- Cox Institute Director Named Morris Chair
- Fanning Institute and Grady Faculty Explain Collaboration in Innovative Practice Paper
- 5 Grady Journalists Training This Summer as Newsy Fellows
2017
- Grady Students Recognized as 2017 Cox-SABEW Fellows
- NPR’s Marilyn Geewax to be Industry Fellow at Grady’s Cox Institute
- PILOT Sponsors UGA’s Grady Mobile News Lab for Fall 2017
- Investigative Report on Sexual Misconduct on College Campuses Wins 2017 Holland Award
- Cox Institute and NPPA Spearhead Resource Effort for Independent Journalists
- Cox Institute Leader Selected for Pulliam Fellowship
- Funke Named Google News Lab Fellow
- Grady Journalism Students Complete 2017 Cox Institute Leaders Program
2016
- Cox Institute Joins the Google News Lab University Network
- Cox Institute Celebrates Dedication of Office and Journalism Innovation Lab
2015
- College Editors Convene at Grady for 20th Annual MSCNE
- Herndon Receives Business Journalism Grant from Reynolds National Center
- Cox Leader, SABEW Fellow selected for the Pulliam Fellowship
2014
Institute Projects
Certificate in News Literacy
The News Literacy Certificate program enhances students’ ability to discern between credible information and information disorder through critical examination of how we access, analyze, verify, create and share media messages with an emphasis on news.
JOURNALISM INNOVATION LAB
The Journalism Innovation Lab creates innovation initiatives to develop the products, practices and people of the industry’s future. Contact Dr. Amanda Bright, director of the Journalism Innovation Lab, with questions.
Digital Natives
Digital Natives pairs UGA journalism students with newsrooms to help local news organizations accomplish specific digital goals. Students do robust research and planning for a weeklong stay at the news organization to help train and help the newsroom.
The program, funded by Richard and Debbie Griffiths, pays a stipend and reimburses all travel and stay costs for the week, and the program is free to newsrooms.
Apply as a student or news organization for the one-week program in early January through the link below.
Innovation Fellows
Journalism Innovation Fellows partner with professional organizations to dive deep into product creation, strategy or emerging practice.
Right now, our Journalism Innovation Fellows are funded through Georgia Association of Broadcasters, working with Georgia radio and TV stations.
We also have teams that compete within the Reynolds Journalism Institute Innovation Competition.
Students should apply through Handshake, and interested news organizations can email amanda.bright@uga.edu.
What The Hackathon
The Journalism Innovation Lab hosts What the Hackathon, sponsored by the What the Hack podcast, each semester.
This 90-minute, interactive event invites students to team up and “hack the code” behind information disorder at the capstone event of the Certificate in News Literacy.
Skills in Sixty
Skills in Sixty are periodic, hourlong events meant to jumpstart journalism knowledge on emerging journalism trends and concepts.
Join us in these events, on everything from AI to visual storytelling to diversity in newsrooms, by following the UGA chapter of ONA/SPJ (Online News Association and the Society of Professional Journalists).
JOURNALISM LEADERSHIP LAB
The Journalism Leadership Lab prepares students for leadership roles in the news media, addressing strategic challenges faced by contemporary news organizations. Contact Dr. Keith Herndon, executive director of the Cox Institute and director of the Journalism Leadership Lab, with questions.
The Lead Podcast
How to get ahead in the news industry, told by the people who did. Hosted by Alexis Derickson and executive produced by Charlotte Varnum for the Cox Institute.
LEVIN LEADERS Program
Levin Leaders are top Grady journalism students selected to study leadership development principles during each spring semester.
They are immersed in a hybrid training experience that combines the best of online education with facilitated leadership development workshops. The program is designed to prepare students for leadership roles in a digital-first era influenced by social media and an explosion in mobile platforms.
The program began in 2013 in partnership with the Poynter Institute. In 2017, the experience was revised to deploy the “Your Leadership Edge” program, which encourages participants to develop the skills to “lead anytime, anywhere.” In 2019, the program became the Levin Leaders Initiative after a new gift pledge from Adam Levin and the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation. The Levin family’s gifts and pledges to the program to date exceed a quarter million dollars.
Keith Herndon, professor of practice in the journalism department and director of the Cox Institute, leads the leadership workshops and coordinates the program.
2024 Levin Leaders
The 2024 Levin Leaders are Carmen Corley, Alexis Derickson, Taft Gantt, Jayden Henson, Libby Hobbs, Lilly Kersh, Joe Kopsho, Allison Mawn, Tori Newman, Sophie Ralph, Nava Rawls, Anna Ruth Riggins, Liz Rymarev, Lee Short, Torin Smith, Avni Trivedi and Owen Warden.
The 2023 Levin Leaders are Ashley Balsavias, Grace Mains, Ryan Kerley, Sidney Chansamone, Jacqueline GaNun, Stuart Steele, Dawn Sawyer, Eric Tiongson, Eve Hernandez, DonA Traylor-Askew, Dania Kalaji, Erin Kenney, Katie Tucker and Olivia Wakim.
The 2022 Levin Leaders are Janelle Ward, Kyle Soto, Kathryn Skeean, Katherine Lewis, Brieanna Smith, Spencer Donovan, Julia Walkup, Nimra Ahmad, Emily Garcia, Madison Franklin, Caroline Kurzawa, Palmer Thombs, Thomas Ehlers, Deaundria Turner and Sydney Fordice.
The students received their medals during a private, socially-distanced dinner on March 15 at the Center for Continuing Education. Grady College Dean Charles Davis attended to recognize the accomplishments of these top journalism students.
The Levin Leaders were recognized at their annual recognition dinner. The keynote speaker was Nick Chiles, the Cox Institute Industry Fellow.
The Levin Leaders were recognized at their annual dinner. The keynote speaker was Amy Glennon (ABJ ’90), the Cox Institute Industry Fellow. They were the first cohort to assume the title of “Levin Leader.”
James M. Cox Jr. Leadership Medals were presented to the sixth cohort of Cox Leaders.
The 2017 Cox Leaders are Katelyn Umholtz, Taylor Cromwell, Lauren Sloan, Zachary Hansen, Denver Ellison, Anna Logan, Cory Cole, Reann Huber, Daniel Funke, Mollie Simon, Lauren Herbert, McKenzie Lewis, Miles Moraitis and Jaylon Thompson. Richard Griffiths is the 2017 Cox Institute Industry Fellow.
The 2016 Cox Poynter Leaders are Emily Selby, Erin Cavalli, Lauren McDonald, Evelyn Andrews, Jennifer Goldberger, Jamie Han, Sam Lack, Grace Donnelly, Haylee Silverthorne, Mariya Lewter, Kalyn Wilson, Macey Kessler, Alison Menhart, Gabriel Cavallaro and Katie Kraft.
The 2015 Cox Poynter Leaders are Melanie Watson, Deegan Mundy, Kathryn Roberts, Elizabeth Grimsley, Jamari Jordan, Kendall Trammell, Taylor West, Eli Watkins, Stephen Mayes, Laura James, Jordan James, Allie Blinder and Brenna Beech.
The 2014 Cox Poynter Leaders are Aashka Dave, Hilary Butschek, Jeanette Kazmierczak, Nicholas Watson, Brittini Ray, Nicholas Fouriezos, Meredith Thornhill, Kathleen LaPorte, Whitney Wyszynski, Hayden Field, Chris Conley and Cailin O’Brien.
The 2013 Cox Poynter Leaders are Mac Little, Megan Ingalls, Lauren Blais, Polina Marinova, Maura Friedman, Sofia Jesani, Christopher DeSantis, Keith Llado, Darcy Lenz, Kelsey Kent, Lindsey Cook, Amanda Dixon, Katherine Wolpert and Cody Schmelter.
Cox-SABEW Fellowship
The Cox-SABEW Fellowship program started in 2013 and honors students who have embraced business journalism and qualified for the recognition through professional experience and student media.
Journalism Writing Lab
The Journalism Writing Lab’s mission is to guide students as they report, write and produce meaningful stories, deepening their reporting abilities. The Journalism Writing Lab partners with professional news organizations for the benefit of students and the industry. Contact professor Lori Johnston, director of the Journalism Writing Lab, with questions.
Covering Poverty
Covering Poverty is a resource for journalists, devoted to helping community, regional and national journalists cover poverty within their beats and to provide guidelines on how to appropriately write about people and poverty-related matters. Students involved in Covering Poverty have been published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Oglethorpe Echo, The Athens Banner-Herald and The Current. The Writing Lab partners with other publications in the Southeast to produce Everyday Heroes, a special AJC section. Covering Poverty also is part of The Carter Center’s Mental Health Parity Collaborative.
“My experience with the Cox Institute’s Covering Poverty project was very formative. In my first two semesters at Grady, I was able to take on stories that dealt with heavy topics, and the lessons I learned from those stories and the people I interviewed has helped me find ways to connect with my community and learn about the struggles they face here at UGA and in the Athens-Clarke area. I even had my stories published in The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, which was exciting to know that it had a larger audience and people saw the sensitive work we did throughout the year.”
—Liz Ryamrev, journalism student and editor-in-chief of The Red & Black, in a “Profiles of Tenacity” piece
Here are some examples of our work:
- How Athens hip-hop artists address mental health struggles (AJC)
- Everyday Heroes: #Bakewithme Project passes ‘bread hug’ onto others (AJC)
- Everyday Heroes: Aliyah Williams (AJC)
- Everyday Heroes: Riya Patel (AJC)
- Nonprofits, individuals come together to help year-round (The Oglethorpe Echo)
- Here to Help: Lexington Baptist Church’s monthly food pantry has been a community fixture for over 20 years (The Oglethorpe Echo)
U.S.-INDIA PROJECT
In this first-time opportunity through the Cox Institute, students at the University of Georgia and students in India teamed up on multimedia projects linking the two nations. The teams worked on significant enterprise stories that were published professionally in both countries, which are the world’s two biggest democracies.
Associated Press journalist Laura Ungar and India Blooms News Service founder-editor and former Reuters correspondent Sujoy Dhar mentored the students from opposite sides of the world and edited their work. Read more about the inaugural journalism partnership here.
Here are some examples of their work:
- When less is more: Capsule wardrobes drive sustainable fashion in the US and India (AJC version)
- When less is more: Capsule wardrobes drive sustainable fashion in the US and India (India Blooms News Service)
- Pay with your phone: Georgia, US play catch up as India surges ahead in payment methods (The Oglethorpe Echo)
Reporting & Writing Resources
Watch tutorial videos on using style guides, quotation/attribution, interviewing and more: Skills for Storytelling and Reporting YouTube Channel.
Additional Resources:
- Reporting I Textbook
- Book Recommendations
- Reporting and Writing Checklist
- AP Style: Most Common Rules
- How to Use the Online AP Stylebook
- Five Ways to Get In Touch with Sources
- Interviewing 101
- How to Write an Email to a Source
- Using Quotations
- How to Correctly Use Quotations and Attribution
- Guide to Person on the Street Interviews
- Your Guide to Covering a Speech, Event or Meeting
- The Art of Lead Writing
- Tutorial Graphics on Various Journalism Writing Styles
- Using Social Media to Report and Promote Your Work
- 10 Major Writing Takeaways
- The Polishing Process
Freelancing Resources
Professor Lori Johnston moderated a discussion between photojournalist Steffenie Burns (ABJ ’17) (photojournalist) and writer Sonam Vashi about freelancing during an Entrepreneurial Journalism Symposium hosted by the Cox Institute.
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THE LATEST
Read the newest headlines from the Cox Institute, get updates and discover events happening at Grady.
Kyser Lough named director of UGA’s Certificate in News Literacy
Kyser Lough, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Georgia’s Grady College, is joining the faculty of the Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership and will […]
Richard T. Griffiths establishes support fund for Student Innovation in Journalism
Richard T. Griffiths, formerly a news executive with CNN, has established a support fund for Grady College journalism students engaged in innovation projects. Students receiving the support will be known […]
Profiles of Tenacity: Liz Rymarev
Fourth-year journalism student Liz Rymarev serves as the editor-in-chief of the Red and Black. She values the impact her professors have had on her love for journalism. Why did you […]
Kamille Whittaker Named Cox Institute’s Industry Fellow for 2023
Kamille Whittaker (MFA ’21), the managing editor of Atlanta Magazine and co-founder of the award-winning, community-led journalism project Canopy Atlanta, is the 2023 Industry Fellow with the James M. Cox […]
Cox Institute’s Digital Natives program completes 3rd year
Before classes began this semester, 14 journalism students spent the first week of January innovating with newsrooms across Georgia. Some students created newsletters, some developed existing social media accounts, and […]
Podcast: Students embrace community journalism through The Oglethorpe Echo, with Dr. Amanda Bright.
Listen to Grady Research Radio Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Stitcher In 2021, after hearing that The Oglethorpe Echo, the community paper of Clarke County’s neighbor, Oglethorpe County, was shutting its doors, Grady College […]
Cox Institute Announces New University Certificate in News Literacy Starting Fall 2022
The Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership at the University of Georgia will launch a new academic Certificate in News Literacy during the Fall 2022 semester. The certificate, […]
Podcast: Exploring Grady’s new Certificate in News Literacy
Listen to Grady Research Radio Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Stitcher The current media landscape is full of unreliable and deceptive information, through deep fakes, click bait, conspiracies and more. With advancements in technology […]
Podcast: How Grady College will approach being one of nation’s first solutions journalism hubs
Listen to Grady Research Radio Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Stitcher At the beginning of August, the Solutions Journalism Network named Grady College one of the nation’s first solutions journalism hubs, a designation given […]
Grady College named one of nation’s first 4 solutions journalism hubs
The Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) has named Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia one of the nation’s four inaugural solutions journalism hubs. In this […]
Journalism Innovation Lab Team finishes in top six in Nationwide Competition
The first-ever Journalism Innovation Lab Team from the Cox Institute of Innovation, Management and Leadership finished in the top six teams in the nation, out of more than 50, in […]