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This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Briefly describe your internship and your responsibilities:  Chemistry is an independent, full-service creative agency. As an account management intern, I assist in day-to-day client communications across four accounts. Some of my primary responsibilities include helping with the […]

Sharing answers, and not just reporting on challenges, is the foundation of solutions journalism. For four Grady College students, discussing applications and the impact of these concepts in a small setting was an inspiring way to cap their college careers. The group from the Department of Journalism attended the 2022 Solutions Journalism Summit presented by […]

This summer, a total of 52 campers from eight U.S. states and Puerto Rico traveled to Grady College to attend Summer Media Academies in Advertising and Public Relations (AdPR), Journalism and Entertainment and Media Studies (EMST).  The weeklong camps were run in partnership with the University of Georgia Summer Academy program and introduced students between […]

The following is a profile written this semester by Lauren Minnick as a class assignment for JOUR 3190, Reporting and Writing Across Platforms. Minnick is a third year journalism student from Marietta, Georgia. She is also pursuing a minor in history and law, jurisprudence, and the state, and a Certificate in Sports Media. Minnick is […]

The opportunity to network and learn directly from the experiences of alumni and industry professionals is one of the key advantages of study away programs. Entertainment & Media Studies students have spent nearly two months in Los Angeles as part of the Grady LA Field Study program, and the following recap follows along one week […]

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Darby is participating in the Grady LA field study and internship program. She has two internships, one as a development intern for Temple Hill Entertainment, and another as an intern for the Producer’s Guild of America. Briefly […]

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Briefly describe your internship and your responsibilities: As a project manager, my role consists conducting market research, owning product vision, communicating with customers about their pain points when navigating our platforms, drafting project lifecycle plans, and working […]

Did the pandemic and social turmoil drive improved performance?   Leaders in public relations improved their performance during the volatile and challenging world of 2020-2022. For the first time since the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations launched its biennial Leadership Report Card in 2015, the grade for overall leadership performance rose to B-. […]

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Briefly describe your internship and your responsibilities: W. P. Carey is a publicly funded real estate investment trust located in NYC. I am the corporate communications intern, so I work for the integrated communications department. I usually […]

Briefly describe your internship and your responsibilities: I do freelance work with The Current and contribute to articles as they need them in Glynn and McIntosh County, which covers coastal Georgia. What is the most valuable lesson you’ve learned so far? The most valuable lesson I’ve learned thus far has been that listening to your […]