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This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their internship experience.   Knox Gaines is a fourth-year double dawg public relations and advertising student working with See.Spark.Go as a Public Relations and Social Media Intern. Read on as he provides insight into what this internship looks like. Briefly describe your […]

Glen Nowak, professor and associate dean for research and graduate studies at Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee that will review the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Research and Communications . Over the course of […]

This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their internship experience.   Libby Hobbs is a fourth-year journalism major and reporter with Atlanta Civic Circle through the Atlanta Press Club internship program. Read on as she provides insight into what this internship looks like. Briefly describe your internship and its […]

Grady College journalism students working at The Oglethorpe Echo as part of their capstone coursework earned nine section and individual awards in the Georgia Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest for the second consecutive year. That gives The Echo a total of 18 GPA awards in two full years of its partnership with the Grady […]

The University of Georgia has been approved to offer a Graduate Certificate in Crisis, Risk, and Disaster Communication (CRDC), a program that will educate students in skills needed for proactive, readiness competencies to address complex communication issues. The new interdisciplinary certificate is a collaborative program bringing together three nationally recognized UGA programs to educate students: […]

A pitch focusing on reviving in-person student activism in a digital age won the  University of Georgia’s spring 2024 Beat Story Pitch Competition. The competition allows students in the Reporting I course, which has 160-180 students each semester, to practice the story pitch process, providing first-hand experience in the preliminary research, interviewing and planning that […]

Grady College is proud to announce the recipients of the Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy Award, the Darwin Davis Award, the Vera Penn Staff Award for Excellence and the Teacher of the Year awards. Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy Award Below are the recipients of this year’s Diversity and Inclusion Award. Both winners, at the graduate student […]

Editor’s Note: Grady College convocation can be viewed via this video on YouTube. A list of Spring 2024 graduates can be viewed on our Graduation webpage. Please view these photo albums for pictures of the Spring 2024 Convocation: Convocation Candids Graduate Students Advertising Graduates EMST Graduates Journalism Graduates Public Relations Graduates For a class of […]

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced the 34 winners elected to represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media during 2023. The winners were chosen by a unanimous vote of 32 jurors from over 1,100 entries from television, podcasts/radio, and the web/digital in entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children’s/youth, public […]

Paige Searles is a fourth-year advertising student with a certificate in new media. She encourages students to seek mentorship by joining the UGA Mentor Program and reaching out to professors. Why did you choose your major? I have always been creative and loved bringing my ideas to life, but I never considered pursuing it as […]