Student Showcase

Our students provide outstanding work through videos they produce, campaigns they create and news they report throughout the community.

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Profiles of Tenacity profiles current Grady College students and the determination, grit and leadership they demonstrate in the classroom and outside in the community.

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Internviews profiles Grady College students and their summer internship experiences. The series is managed by our Yarbrough Fellows.

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Grady Newsource is an on-air and digital publication by journalism students at Grady College. The content is produced by students in capstone courses at Grady.

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Talking Dog is a full-service, student-run agency providing research, strategic messaging, design, video, website development and more to clients and non-profit organizations.

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The Backlight Student Film Festival is an award-winning collaborative effort between the Entertainment Media Industries Club and University Union with a mission to foster innovation and creativity within the University of Georgia community by promoting and highlighting the work of aspiring filmmakers.

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The Oglethorpe Echo is the legal organ of Oglethorpe and is staffed by Grady College journalism students who report and photograph for the paper. The students are taught by professors through a capstone class. The paper is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.

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The Latest

Read the newest headlines, get updates and discover events happening at Grady.

October 22, 2026

Profiles of Tenacity: Samuel Tritto

Samuel Tritto is a fourth-year public relations major and religion minor from Gray, Georgia. Tritto serves as PRSSA’s director of internal affairs. Read his Q/A below. Why did you choose […]

Mark Johnson sits on a stool in front of a backdrop with newspapers. He has a few cameras on wooden boxes at his feet.

October 20, 2026

Photojournalism professor captures life through a lens

Mark E. Johnson started looking through the lens of a camera at a young age, but his calling as a photojournalism professor didn’t come into focus until later in life. […]

October 15, 2026

Profiles of Tenacity: Ashley Burnsed

Ashley Burnsed is a fourth-year Entertainment and Media Studies Major from Dallas, Georgia. Burnsed is the president of Backlight Student Film Festival, producer for UGA Student Films and Student Videographer […]

October 13, 2026

UGA journalism student named Planet Forward Correspondent

Editor’s Note: The piece was originally written by Mackenzie Blanco and published on The Red & Black website. Planet Forward, an environmental storytelling project hosted by the Georgia Washington University […]

October 12, 2026

Grady College website introduces HAL8122, a new AI assistant

Grady College has added a new voice to its website: HAL8122, an AI-powered assistant built by BizzTech that can hold a conversation in more than 100 languages. Anyone visiting the […]

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October 08, 2026

Profiles of Tenacity: Carter McGraw

Carter McGraw is a fourth-year advertising major from Atlanta, Georgia. McGraw is a co-director of the Talking Dog Agency, a fellow for the Institute for Leadership Advancement and an ambassador […]

Events

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GSPA Fall 2026 Conference

Tuesday, October 27

The next conference will be on October 27, 2026, at the University of Georgia’s Tate Student Center. For more information please visit: https://www.ugagspa.org/conference.

Intern Hours

Tuesday, November 03

Join us for Intern Hours, a peer networking event for Grady College students. Each session will feature a group of current Grady students who had or have internships in Summer or Fall 2026 or Spring 2027. Get tips on how they found their internships, how to prep for your own internship applications, what they did in the role and more. See details on this month’s featured interns on Instagram @UGAGradyCareers.

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Paws with the Dean

Thursday, November 05

Take a pause from studying and group projects on Thursday, November 5, and join us on the Schnitzer Family Media Lawn for Paws with the Dean from 11 – 1 p.m. Dean Davis will be welcoming dogs and handlers for some time to de-stress.

Open House for UGA Families Weekend

Friday, November 06

Students and families participating in UGA Families Weekend are invited to drop by for refreshments, meet faculty and staff and take self-guided tours of the building.

Yarbrough Distinguished Lecture: Gary Sheffer (GE)

Wednesday, November 11

On Nov. 11, the fourth annual Yarbrough Distinguished Lecture Series, featuring Gary Sheffer, will take place in the Peyton Anderson Forum. The lecture is titled “The Human Side of Crisis Leadership: Building on the LEAP Framework.” The lecture is open to all UGA and Grady College faculty, staff and students. To attend, please RSVP using the form: https://forms.gle/7RyCCGyuey5ey59d7

AJC Midtown Meetup

Tuesday, November 17

More information on this event coming soon.