Blog Archive

What are you passionate about? I am most passionate about diversity and inclusion in institutions and creating both systemic and social change with regard to how different identities are perceived and treated. I feel this most prominently with regards to media because of its ability to reach and influence so many people and let them […]

Being reminded about the existence of misinformation disguised as legitimate news can boost news readers’ ability to identify articles that are “fake” or false, according to researchers at the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The research suggests that social media platforms could play a role in preventing readers from falling […]

How has Grady influenced your time at UGA? Grady has allowed me to learn invaluable information from top journalists and practitioners, as well as my peers. Establishing relationships with these people has been the most invaluable takeaway from pursuing my education at Grady. I’m always absorbing more about media and public relations strategy from simply […]

A podcast, “Caribbean Voices,” created by Leara Rhodes and sponsored by Grady College in partnership with the Latin American-Caribbean Studies Institute (LACSI) at the University of Georgia can be found online on the Caribbean Voices website.  The podcast aims to share the lifestyles and traditions of the Caribbean Basin and serve as an outreach for […]

What is your most memorable Grady experience? Grady Newsource. Period. There is nothing else like this experience. This experience helped me prepared for what the industry is really like. From quick day turns, to longer form pieces, social elements, and digital articles, this class really covered the gamut in different ways to get the news […]

What: NewsCraft 20 – Covering Culture    When: February 7, 2020 Where: Studio 100 (first floor of the Grady College) The theme of NewsCraft 20, a reporting and writing workshop, is “covering culture.” We selected this theme to highlight a type of journalism that reflects society’s insatiable interest in entertainment and lifestyle topics and to […]

Please subscribe to the Grady College Conversations podcast. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean. Learn more about the podcast here. This episode features Ernie Johnson Jr. (ABJ’78) of Turner Sports.

Nick Chiles, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best-selling author, will be the 2020 Industry Fellow with the Grady College’s James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership.  Chiles joined the Cox Institute in August 2019 as its first writing coach and helped establish the Grady Writing Lab as a service to […]

Peabody today announced that its annual ceremony, the Peabody Awards, will be held for the first time in Los Angeles at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Thursday, June 18, 2020. Peabody Awards honor the most intelligent, powerful and moving stories told in broadcasting and digital media. These stories—from entertainment to documentary to news programming—shape our […]

Grady College is pleased to announce that eight alumni representing six businesses are represented in this year’s Bulldog 100. The Bulldog 100 is a list coordinated by the University of Georgia Alumni Association of fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA alumni. Congratulations to the following Grady alumni who will be recognized for their leadership, […]