Cox International Center

Empowering Communications and Media Insights since 1985

The James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research (Cox International Center or “Cox Center”) is one of the fully established units in the United States dedicated to international outreach and research in mass communication, media, and journalism. Named after the late James M. Cox, Jr. – chairman of the board of Cox Enterprises – the Cox International Center began operations in 1985. Since 1990, the Center has been supported by annual contributions of the Jim Cox Jr. Foundation of Atlanta as a living memorial to James M. Cox, Jr.

The mission of the Center is to empower communication and media insights worldwide, including the promotion of free and independent press and the vital roles of communication in all aspects of business and society. To foster this mission, the Center has hosted numerous international groups of professionals, international journalism educators, and journalists from over 48 countries. Fulbright scholars, Muskie Fellows, Freedom Support Act and IREX Fellows, and Edward Murrow Fellows have been among the visiting scholars.

The Communication and Media (CAM) Fellows Program – operated in the Cox Center – has hosted more than 100 international fellows and visiting scholars since 2008 for their research and training in various fields related to media, journalism, media technology, media policy, and communication of businesses, public sectors, and governments.

Murrow Fellows discuss misinformation during visit with Cox International Center

Conversations about the effect of 24-hour news, social media and misinformation during elections around the world were a few of the topics discussed when 17 international journalists visited Grady College on Nov. 9, 2022.

The group was part of the Murrow Fellow program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and Poynter and hosted for the day by the Cox International Center. The Murrow Fellows program invited journalists to the United States from around the world including Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, just to name a few.

Cox International Center Develops One of The Three African Civic Engagement Academy Courses

Amid the 2020 coronavirus pandemic the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research began its work in creating one of the three courses for the African Civic Engagement Academy (ACEA). The project was sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) program. It began in early 2020 and went live in September of 2021.

Discussing Post-COVID Collaboration with Strategic Partner in Romania

“We have all learned from the pandemic period that online education is a valuable tool, but we also need to remember that some of our most successful joint projects have come from in-person visits and workshops,” Dr. Tudor Vlad, director of the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, told the professors and researchers of the College of Political, Administrative and Communication Studies (FSPAC) at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in August 2021.

Fulbright Scholar Visits Cox International Center

Delia Cristina Balas (Balaban), Ph.D. (European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, Germany) is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Georgia. Delia Cristina Balas is a visiting scholar from February 1 to May 31, 202, and her stay is sponsored by the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, the international outreach unit of the Grady College.

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From left to right: A group of Georgian journalists visit Grady College. (Photo: Jackson Schroeder) Kyser Lough and Ralitsa Vassileva took a small group of students to the Solutions Journalism Summit in Utah. (Photo: submitted) Myra Blackmon speaks to a class at Grady College. (Photo: Sarah Freeman)

2022 in Review: Service & Partnerships

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Murrow Fellows sit at tables and serve as panelists.

Murrow Fellows discuss misinformation during visit with Cox International Center

Jooyoung Kim in front of a screen teaching an advertising class.

Jooyoung Kim named director of Cox International Center

Jooyoung Kim, the Dan Magill Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Sports Communication, has been named director of the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research. […]
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Young journalists from the country Georgia attend a lunch with Grady undergraduate students in the PAF.

Cox International Center welcomes young Georgian journalists for digital media training

From March 28 to April 8, 21 early-to-mid-career journalists from the country Georgia are at Grady College taking classes in the area of digital media. Following a week at Poynter […]
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Ninth Consecutive Annual Workshop in Bucharest Organized by the Cox International Center

Grady College alumni and faculty led an international discussion on fake news at a workshop in Bucharest, Romania, in early October. Alina Bargaoanu, dean of the College of Communication and […]
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Contact the Cox Center

The Cox International Center
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Georgia
120 Hooper Street, Rm. 423
Athens, GA 30602
USA

Phone: 706-542-5798
Fax: 706-542-5036
Email: tvlad@uga.edu