Blog Archive
Sarah Geary selected as summer Tieger Fellow in Public Affairs Communications
The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication announced the selection of a new Tieger Fellow for the summer of 2020 — Sarah Geary. The Tieger Fellowship supports the mission of the College’s first-in-the-nation Public Affairs Communications (PAC) Program by promoting PAC’s unique existence. The PAC program provides students with practical training […]
Grady College Conversations podcast: Heather Adams (ABJ ’98)
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. You can also hear it on Spotify. Learn more about Grady College podcasts here. Heather Adams (ABJ ’98) is the founder and CEO of Choice Media and Communications in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a member of the Grady Society Alumni Board and is a regular attendee of AdPR […]
Peabody Awards announces 60 nominees
Honor celebrates best storytelling across broadcasting and digital media Athens, Ga. – The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has selected 60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019. The nominees were chosen by unanimous vote of 19 jurors from nearly 1,300 entries from television, radio/podcasts […]
Grady alumni offer tips tor reporting on COVID-19 from home
Editor’s Note: this feature originally appeared on the Medicaljournalism.grady.uga.edu website. Quarantine started early for Erica Hensley, an investigative reporter with Mississippi Today. In early March, she attended a conference focused on computer-assisted reporting in New Orleans, hosted by the Investigative Reporters and Editors. A few days later, IRE announced that a conference guest had tested positive […]
King Distinguished Professorship in Advertising established
The Karen W. and Daniel J. King Distinguished Professorship in Advertising has been created in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, announced Charles N. Davis, dean of Grady College. Karen King, a Jim Kennedy Professor of New Media and professor of advertising, has taught at Grady College for 35 years. She is retiring this […]
Grady students excel in graphic design specific internships
This semester three Grady students secured design internships with a variety of companies including See Spark Go, Jackson Spalding, and Hinge Creative. These graphic students, Nico Mejia with See.Spark.Go, Eliza Meng with Hinge Creative and Damalas Moreland with Jackson Spalding have been working throughout the semester, and some have even carried their work to an online […]
2019 alumna creates scholarship for Grady Sports Media
Not long after the University of Georgia paused instruction to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Grady Sports Media undergraduate certificate program got an unexpected bit of good news. Alumna Taylor Maggiore, who had just graduated in December, wanted to create a scholarship to further the advancement of women in the tumultuous professional world of […]
The Lead Podcast Welcomes New Student Host for Fall 2020
The Cox Institute’s podcast, The Lead, will feature a new student host when season nine begins in fall 2020. Caroline Odom, a rising third-year student majoring in journalism and risk management and insurance, was named the new host following an application and faculty search process. “The Lead is such an interesting podcast because it […]
#GradyGrit: Meet Mason Cantrell
What is the hardest part about being a Grady student? The deadlines. It’s not like other courses where things roll and have a gradual flow. You can go a couple weeks without having anything due and then one week you’ll have three projects worth 85 percent of your grade due within two hours of each […]
Grady Sports Media students mentor high school students in sports broadcast program
The allure of a Friday night for teens and young adults is palpable. It’s a time to celebrate the end of a long week, hang out with friends and anticipate the weekend ahead. Fridays in the fall also include the social experience that is high school football. For a group of Cedar Shoals High School […]