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.

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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.

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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.

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

Phone: 706-542-5798
Fax: 706-542-5036
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