McGill
Overview
The McGill program advances journalistic courage in the name of Ralph McGill, the late editor and publisher of the Atlanta ConstitutionThe McGill program includes:
- The McGill Lecture, highlighting a journalist or McGill Medal Award recipient, who has exhibited courage in their field
- The McGill Symposium, bringing together journalists, faculty and the McGill Fellows, to consider what journalistic courage means and how reporters and editors exemplify it
- The McGill Medal for Journalist Courage, awarded to a journalist each year who has demonstrated journalist courage
About McGill
About McGill
The McGill program honors Ralph McGill’s courage as editor of The Atlanta Constitution. McGill was regarded as the “conscience of the south” for his editorials challenging racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for “long, courageous, effective leadership.”
Support McGill
Your gift to the McGill Lecture and Endowment Fund helps us sustain our effort to advance journalistic courage and carry it forward. Gifts support all McGill Programs, the McGill Lecture, McGill Symposium and McGill Medal. Please make checks payable to The UGA Foundation McGill Lecture and Endowment Fund.
Contact Us/Mail Gifts
For more information about the McGill Lecture, Symposium and Medal:
Diane Murray
Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach