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‘Another Angle’ accentuates the positive
Preparing students for the real world of journalism often includes assignments of breaking news, or stories of conflict and strife. Seldom is there time to cover the positive side of news, but for a group of Grady College students, they are making the time by volunteering to cover another angle. “Another Angle” is a broadcast […]
Spring 2019 graduates encouraged to write own narrative at Grady College Convocation
Pictures from the Spring 2019 Grady Convocation can be viewed on the UGAGrady Flickr galleries: Spring 2019 convocation candids Spring 2019 convocation graduates: Graduate degrees Advertising Public Relations Journalism EMST Spring 2019 convocation ceremony Nearly 500 undergraduate and graduate students were eligible for graduation from Grady College this semester, many of whom were recognized at the […]
Seven Winners of Peabody Futures of Media Awards announced
The Peabody Media Center has named seven winners of this year’s Peabody Futures of Media Awards for outstanding digital storytelling released in 2018. This year’s winners include: digital journalism exploring ethical questions about society’s treatment of sex offenders, immersive experiences into the Dutch drug trade and artifacts in British museums; virtual reality experiences about complex […]
UGA hosts Second Annual Crisis Communication Think Tank
The University of Georgia’s Department of Advertising and Public Relations at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication held its second annual Crisis Communication Think Tank event on April 18, 2019. This year’s CCTT theme was “sticky crisis,” with a focus on how to advance crisis communication effectiveness in managing challenging and complex crisis […]
Morris Chair Establishes Morris Media Fellows Program in 2019
Five Grady journalism students have the distinction of serving as the inaugural group of Morris Media Fellows, an experiential learning program established through the William S. Morris Chair in News Strategy and Management. Miranda Daniel was the first student selected and worked during spring semester as a visual journalist at the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, part of […]
Cox Innovation Fellowship Features Largest Summer Group
Seven students from the Journalism Department at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will gain experiential learning experience during Summer 2019 through Cox Innovation Fellowships. Sponsored by the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism, Management and Leadership, the students are assigned to a variety of media outlets. The students and their assignments […]
Wegman, Diaz headline Grady Convocation
Grady College is proud to announce that Jonathan Wegman (ABJ ’04) will deliver the Charge to Candidates and Lauren Diaz will be the distinguished senior speaker at the Grady College Convocation for spring and summer graduates on May 8, 2019. The ceremony starts at 3 p.m. at the Classic Center. In addition, a Grady College […]
NMI students make an impact in Grady County
It may be a coincidence that Grady College and Grady County share the same namesake in Henry W. Grady, but they also share something else in common: a group of dedicated students making an impact with their skills and talent. Grady County has been the semester-long focus of a group of students from the New […]
Grady PHD Creative Collective 8.0 explores media lives and attitudes of Gen Z
Seven senior advertising majors had the opportunity to join together as Grady’s 8th Creative Collective team, sponsored by PHD, the worldwide media agency. This year, the team spent six months looking into the media lives of 18- to 25-year-olds, part of the elusive Generation Z. They conducted secondary research and more than 110 in-depth interviews […]