Blog Archive

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Briefly describe your internship and responsibilities. A typical day will always start with coffee! I drive to the Capitol, where I compile news clips to send out to the office. We have a morning meeting and discuss […]

The Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Grady College joins the Museum of Public Relations in announcing a major effort to document the PR industry’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the banner “History Responds: Communications in the Time of COVID,” the PR Museum and its partners are putting out a call for objects […]

New EMST lecturer Keith Wilson has been selected as a 2021 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow. “This is a singular honor for documentary producers,” said Jay Hamilton, head of EMST. “Sundance is the premiere venue for independent filmmakers, and for Keith to have a project chosen for these programs places it at the forefront of […]

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Briefly describe your internship and responsibilities. As a Copywriter intern at FCB (Foote, Cone & Belding) Chicago, I am responsible for bringing campaign ideas to life with strong, quick and concise messaging. I am on the Walmart […]

The Olympics in Tokyo will be the first Summer Games Vicki Michaelis has not covered in nearly three decades. Between Summer and Winter Games, Michaelis has reported from nine Olympics. Her Olympics coverage for the Denver Post, USA TODAY and TeamUSA.org has taken her to Sydney, London and Athens, Greece, among other global hubs. She […]

Eighteen students make up the first cohort for our new low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Narrative Media Writing. Faculty members Valerie Boyd and Nate Kohn welcomed the group to campus for their first intensive 10-day residency on July 31. The residency will be followed by a four-month online writing period, during which each student works closely with […]

In the fall of 2015, Grady College welcomed its first cohort of MFA students embarking on one of two learning tracts: narrative nonfiction or screenwriting. This low-residency program, the first of its kind originating in a journalism school, attracts professionals who don’t want to put their careers on hold and move to a college town […]

It’s all about good timing for André Gallant (ABJ ‘10, MFA 17). Gallant had been waiting for several years for the MFA program in narrative writing to start, so it was a mere coincidence—and good timing—when he received a contract to write his first book within a few weeks of the first class. Three years […]

One of Henry “Hadjii” Hand’s personal missions is always trying to get better…and he is trying to encourage his students to do the same. For Hand (ABJ ’98), returning to Grady College to mentor graduate students is a significant change compared with the undergraduate students he taught in his introductory telecommunications classes in the early-2000s. […]

Studying in a graduate program while working a demanding job is no small undertaking. Add the demands of becoming a first-time father, and for many students, that would be a recipe for disaster. But, not for Matt Pearl. “That’s one of the advantages of this program, because it’s so individually tailored, you really get the […]