Outreach

Overview

As part of the public service mission of the University of Georgia, the Grady College works to brings its knowledge and resources to the people of Georgia and beyond to enhance their quality of life.

Avid and Davinci Resolve Training

The Avid Authorized Training Center offers certified instruction on Avid Media Composer and DaVinci Resolve. With a facility featuring the latest versions of each software, lead trainer Professor James Biddle provides basic and advanced level courses for professionals as well as UGA staff, students and professors seeking a new or advanced skill set on one or more of these NLE (Non-Linear Editing) systems. DaVinci Resolve training includes basic Resolve certification, Color Certification, Fusion Certification, Fairlight Certification and/or Resolve Editing Certification.

Covering Poverty: A toolkit for Journalists

Covering Poverty is a toolkit for journalists who want to know how to incorporate poverty coverage in their reporting in various beats — health, housing, financial services and more.

Crisis Communication Think Tank

The Crisis Communication Think Tank (CCTT) is a yearly event, sponsored by the C. Yarbrough Professorship in Crisis Communication Leadership, the Center for Health and Risk Communication, the Georgia Athletic Association Professorship in Grady College and the Hearst Visiting Professionals Fund at the University of Georgia. The CCTT attendees are invited members of a crisis communication coalition, selected as thought leaders in the field. The CCTT aims to build collaborations among researchers, practitioners, and educators, in and outside the U.S., in advancing crisis communication science and practice through dialogue on emerging topics and co-creation of evidence-based advice for next-generation crisis research and practice.

Griffiths Innovators

The Griffiths Innovators, funded by Richard T. Griffiths, is a program within the Journalism Innovation Lab of the Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management & Leadership. Its purpose is to engage UGA journalism majors in innovation projects with news organizations — providing a rich learning experience for both members of the partnership for the benefit of local news. Griffiths Innovators take on various innovation tasks each year. Teams take on one-time special projects, as needed, and those that compete within the Reynolds Journalism Institute Innovation Competition. Most Griffiths Innovators, though, are paired with newsrooms through one of two versions of the program.

Innovation Fellows: 2 hours per week remotely from October-April, minus breaks (40 hours total)

Digital Natives: one full week on-site during the first week of January (40 hours total)

Georgia Scholastic Press Association

Founded in 1928 by Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia, GSPA promotes the understanding and practice of journalism. Over the past 90 years, GSPA has evolved to encompass all forms of scholastic media, including broadcast, literary magazine, newsmagazine, newspaper and yearbook. GSPA’s goal is to help publications progress by providing networking and skill development opportunities.

High School Discovery

The Summer Media Academy at Grady College is a residential, weeklong program focused on experiential learning. This program is open to students ages 14-17 (13 if rising freshman) interested in the mass communication field.

Are you a school teacher in Georgia interested in taking your students on a field trip to learn more about journalism, video production, advertising or public relations? If so, you should come visit us at Grady College!

McGill Lecture, Symposium and Medal

For nearly 40 years, the McGill Lecture has brought significant figures in journalism to the University of Georgia to help us honor Ralph McGill’s courage as an editor. In 2007, we added the McGill Symposium, bringing together students, faculty and leading journalists to consider what journalistic courage means and how it is exemplified by reporters and editors. In 2009, we awarded the first McGill Medal to a U.S. journalist whose career has exemplified journalistic courage.

Service Learning

Service-learning at the University of Georgia is the application of academic skills and knowledge to address a community need, issue, or problem and to enhance student learning.

Solutions Journalism for the South

Grady College is proud to be one of a few Solutions Journalism Hubs located in journalism schools throughout the U.S. that support storytelling covering both the problems and the actions being taken to address them. Solutions journalism is rigorous and compelling reporting about responses, which includes how that response has worked, or why it hasn’t; insight (what can be learned from a response and why it matters); evidence (providing data or qualitative results that indicate effectiveness); and limitations (placing responses in context).