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The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced the winners selected to represent the most captivating and inspiring stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2024. The winners were chosen by a unanimous vote of 27 jurors from over 1,000 entries from television, podcasts/radio and the web in entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, public service, and […]

For Shonté Hodnett, a Master of Fine Arts Narrative Media student, “Hidden Lines” is more than just a script she wrote for an assignment. It’s important cultural history that has a personal family connection. Hodnett was recently recognized as a quarterfinalist in the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay competition, an impressive showing for a first-time scriptwriter. […]

Cicero Independiente journalists have been named the recipients of the Rollin M. “Pete” McCommons Award for Distinguished Community Journalism. The award recognizes the group for their investigative series, “The Air We Breathe: Environmental concerns in the majority Latinix town of Cicero, Illinois,” that they reported on in collaboration with MuckRock, a non-profit collaborative new site. […]

A multidisciplinary team from the Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE) researching public health impacts through cutting-edge immersive media technologies is the recipient of the Presidents’ Award of Distinction from the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA). The award, presented at the Georgia CTSA’s annual conference in March, is given to a research […]

It was a day for celebration, with a touch of sentimentality, as alumni, faculty and friends of Grady College gathered for Grady Salutes on April 25, 2025. For the second year in a row, Grady Salutes took place over lunch on the Schnitzer Family Media Lawn in front of the College that means so much […]

Camden Flinn is a third year entertainment & media studies major from Decatur, Georgia. He is set to graduate in May 2026. Flinn now serves as the president of the Backlight Film Festival, after holding the role of programing coordinator. He is also an active member of the Entertainment Media Industries Club and contributes to […]

A recently published wine book from two Grady faculty members earned a silver award in the Nonfiction Book Awards sponsored by the Nonfiction Authors Association. “Wine Conversations: Exploring Meaning, Mystery and Myth” was produced by Keith Herndon, author and interviewer, along with Charlotte Varnum, editor. The book, featuring 16 interviews with prominent wine industry experts, […]

University of Georgia students participated in new research studies on digital misinformation and won prizes at the spring 2025 What the Hackathon. The event was sponsored by the What the Hack podcast, hosted by Adam Levin, and offered more than 40 students guidance on how people interpret and respond to misinformation online, drawing from current […]

The Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership presented its Medal of Achievement to 30 journalism students during the Institute’s 2025 Spring Recognition Dinner. Held March 27 at the University of Georgia’s Special Collections Library, the dinner honored the students’ completion of their work as Fink Fellows, Griffiths Innovators and Levin Leaders. The students wrote and […]

On April 14 at Grady College, Hedge Fund: Venture Between the Hedges, once again helped contribute to the graduate Crisis Communication and Strategic Conflict Management course at Grady College. In its second year, the new “Shark Tank” inspired competition,  funded by a group of industry leaders, had student teams develop theory-based strategies for problem solving […]