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Several Crisis Communications Think Tank (CCTT) Insights & Analytics Lab scholars and faculty attended and presented research at the 2026 International Public Relations Research Conference (IPRRC)  in Orlando, Florida, March 5-7. Scholars attending included Lauren Flaker, River Gracey, Jingyuan (Jimmy) Kong, Anyi Morfaw, Rongting Niu, and Yi (Ansley) Zhao. Faculty attending included Timothy Coombs, CCTT […]

Shad McMillan is a second-year Journalism and Communication Studies double-major from Carrollton, Georgia. McMillan is a Griffith’s Innovator through the Cox Institute and serves as co-creator and social media manager for Grady Nightshift. Read his Q/A below. Why did you choose your major? I chose journalism because it was the career path that most encapsulates […]

Wilson Lowrey is a professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He earned a B.A. in English from Davidson College in 1985, an M.A. in Mass Communication from Grady College in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from Grady College in 2000. Prior to earning his Ph.D., Lowrey […]

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced today that multi-award winningactress and podcast host Amy Poehler will be honored with the Peabody Career Achievement Award; award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter Sterlin Harjo will be honored with the Peabody Trailblazer Award; and historic programmer PBS KIDS will be honored with the Peabody Institutional Award. Poehler, Harjo, […]

Matthew Evans, associate professor in the Department of Entertainment and Media Studies, has been named one of three recipients of the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the university’s highest early-career honor for outstanding and innovative instruction. The other two faculty recipients are Gaelen R. Burke, professor of entomology in the College of […]

Grady faculty Keith Herndon and Charlotte Varnum won two Taste Awards this year and were finalists in four other categories for work on their wine book and podcast. “Wine Conversations: Exploring Meaning, Mystery and Myth” was named a Special Achievement Winner in the 17th Annual Taste Awards for Best Interactive E-Book. One of Herndon’s original photos […]

Television programs have regularly presented the Black Lives Matter movement since 2015, said Laurena Bernabo, an assistant professor in the Department of Entertainment and Media Studies (EMST) at Grady College. She said the topic became unavoidable in the summer of 2020, following George Floyd’s murder and subsequent international protests.  Bernabo examines television’s portrayal of the BLM […]

Sarah Karges is the senior vice president of performance investment at Havas Media Group in New York City, an international media agency. As an advertising major at Grady College, Karges served on the PHD Scholars Program, a six-month externship and research project focused on Millennial purchasing trends. That project led her to her first job […]

Maureen Clayton (ABJ ’80, MA ’84), a public relations and financial entrepreneur and co-chair of the AdPR Executive Advisory Board, will be inducted into the Grady College Fellowship at Grady Salutes on March 27. Clayton is the president and founder of Insight Strategic Communications, a firm specializing in strategy, thought leadership and employment branding. She is […]

Kim Landrum, principal instructor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, has been named one of two faculty members to receive the University of Georgia Award for Excellence in Teaching, an honor recognizing sustained excellence in instruction. Melissa Scott Kozak, a principal lecturer in the department of human development and family science in the College […]