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Trusting News, a project intended to empower journalists to earn consumers’ trust, is adding research and training support from a partnership with Grady College. The Trusting News project, which was founded at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, has worked with more than 50 news outlets since […]

Tyler Wilkins, a fourth-year journalism and political science double major, is the first recipient of the Krensavage-Knight scholarship. The annual scholarship goes to a senior journalism student and is provided by Michael Krensavage (ABJ ’89, MBA ’90) and his wife, Mary Krensavage. The scholarship is named for David Knight who was Michael Krensavage’s beloved journalism […]

What motivates you? I am extremely motivated when I see a tangible change has been made that positively affects a mass quantity of people, especially at the university level. When I see students take chances that implement this positive change, it in turn motivates me to do the same. I believe indecisiveness is extremely inefficient […]

Gracie Blount, a junior advertising major, was selected as one of three U.S. students to participate in the Roger Hatchuel Student Academy at the 2020 Cannes Lions Festival. Due to COVID-19, this year’s festival has been canceled, but participants are invited to be a part of the Academy next year. The Roger Hatchuel Student Academy […]

Grady College is proud to announce Austin Gibbons, a senior from Stone Mountain, Georgia, is the recipient of the 2020 George M. Abney Honors Award. Gibbons will graduate in May with majors in public relations and political science. The Abney award is presented by Grady College annually to the senior who has achieved the most […]

Grady EMST students  won four statewide awards at the Georgia Communication Association sponsored 2020 Student Film Festival.    To honor award recipients, an awards dinner and ceremony took place on Friday, Feb. 21, at the GCA 90th Annual Convention at Georgia Highlands College in Cartersville, Georgia.  Among the winners, Kiana Washington won first place for her documentary, “Breaking […]

Grady College asked news managers with experience in local and national media how outlets should cover the coronavirus pandemic. Bob Furnad is 50-year veteran in broadcast news production and management with ABC and CNN among others on his resume. He served as president of CNN Headline News before retiring He also was a visiting associate […]

What are you passionate about? I am passionate about the beauty of togetherness and vulnerability that comes from pursuing creativity. I am passionate about creative collaboration. I am passionate about the ability we have to bring a story into the life and imagination of cinema, poetry, writing, and the way that brings comfort, newness, and […]

This story first published in its entirety at news.uga.edu. As a Visitors Center tour guide and ISL world leader, Lillie Russell has welcomed hundreds of new students to UGA and showed them all the possibilities for growth and how to empower them in their next steps. Hometown: Woodstock, Georgia High school: Etowah High School Current […]

Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, director of Grady College’s Games and Virtual Environments Lab and an associate professor of advertising, has been named co-editor of the journal “Media Psychology” beginning fall 2020. Ahn joins Benjamin Johnson from the University of Florida, Marina Krcmar from Wake Forest University and Leonard Reinecke from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, […]