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Riley McLaughlin is a senior EMST and Interdisciplinary Art major from Marietta, GA. She is actively engaged on campus as a Student Assistant for the Peabody Awards, serves as the Alumni/Marketing/PR Coordinator for Camp Kesem, and is a member of The Industry Club, Printmaking Student Association, and Graphic Design Club. Read more about her below. […]

The University of Georgia Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television and Digital Media was recently named to the list of Top 50 Film Schools across the country by The Wrap, a leading publication in the media and entertainment industry.   This is the first time the UGA MFA Film program has been named to a […]

Wenqing Zhao is a doctoral student in the Department of Advertising & Public Relations at UGA. Her research focuses on health, crisis and conflict communication. She is a lab manager for the Brain, Body, and Media (BBAM) Lab and a research coordinator for CIA (Crisis Insights and Analytics) Lab & Crisis Communication Think Tank (CCTT). […]

Allison Damron, an advertising major in Grady College, has been named the Strategic Health & Risk Communication Fellow for 2024-25. Damron will work closely with Jeong-Yeob Han, associate professor and director of the SHRC certificate, to promote and expand the program. “Allison is exceptionally well-equipped to serve as the Strategic Health & Risk Communication Fellow,” […]

There is a synergy to Lauren Musgrove’s life that makes her busy schedule feel supported and aligned. Musgrove not only teaches, but she is also a co-founder of a woman-owned production studio called Purple Magnet Productions, and she directs films. She recently directed, co-wrote and produced her first feature film, “Ugly Sweater,” which has been […]

Kelsie Pearson is a senior Journalism major with a certificate in Entrepreneurship from McDonough, GA. She is deeply involved with campus life serving asthe President of Society of Entrepreneurs, represented UGA at the SEC Pitch Competition, took second in the UGA Venture Prize Pitch Competition and is the Founder and CEO of Sisterhood of the […]

When politicians commit a scandal, they try all sorts of different ways to fend it off.  Researchers from Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Communication at The University of Miami tried to crack the code on the most effective crisis communication for a politician who misbehaves.  They conducted experiments testing […]

Brown James is a third-year Ph.D. student and lecturer at Grady. Using primarily qualitative methods, his research focuses on the intersection of news media and the American political and legal systems. Brown also studies the interactions and relations between news media and the U.S. military. Before coming to UGA, Brown served as a court coordinator […]

Each semester, Grady College selects four students to be Yarbrough Fellows. Madden Callahan, Shannon Lorusso, Lila Maiolo and NaYoung Song have been named as the 2024 Yarbrough Fellows. The Yarbrough Fellows program offers Grady College students the opportunity to gain communications experience while serving the College. Callahan and Lorusso are Yarbrough-Grady Communications Fellows, working with […]

Vicki Freimuth, a pioneer in health communications and founding director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication at UGA, died Oct. 20, 2024, at her home outside Cincinnati. She was 80 years old. Freimuth served as director of communication for the Centers for Disease Control for nearly eight years, after which she joined the […]