Blog Archive
The Oglethorpe Echo earns long list of awards and recognition
What a spring it has been for The Oglethorpe Echo and the Grady College students and faculty members who staff and support it. Over the past several months, The Echo, a 149-year-old newspaper in nearby Oglethorpe County saved in 2021 through a partnership with Grady College, has been profiled in several national and local news […]
Grady College remembers Spencer Tinkham
Dr. Spencer F. Tinkham, admired for his affable nature, prolific research and dedication to students, died June 29, 2023. He was 79 years old. Tinkham served as a professor of advertising at Grady College for 37 years before retiring in 2018. “Spencer Tinkham was a consummate gentleman and a tireless, diligent scholar,” said Charles N. […]
Grady InternViews: Julianna Russ
This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Julianna Russ is a fourth-year journalism student working with the CNN Documentary Unit as part of the Warner Bros Discovery Internship Program. Read on as she provides insight into what this internship looks like. Briefly describe your […]
Grady InternViews: Tee Dickinson
This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Tee Dickinson is a fourth-year Entertainment and Media Studies student working with NewsNation Network as part of Grady’s inaugural Chicago Field Study and Internship Program. Read on as he provides insight into what this internship looks like. […]
Grady InternViews: Isabella Martinez
This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Isabella Martinez is a fourth-year public relations student working with Visit Athens as a marketing and communications intern. Read on as she provides insight into what this internship looks like. Briefly describe your internship and responsibilities. Visit […]
Grady InternViews: Audrie Uphues
This is part of a series where we ask Grady College students to describe their summer internship experience. Audrie Uphues is a fourth-year journalism student working with Georgia Football Creative as a creative videography intern. Read on as she provides insight into what this internship looks like. Briefly describe your internship and responsibilities. Georgia Football […]
Sports Media students prepare for Women’s World Cup
Covering the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia would be a dream opportunity for most college journalists. For a group of University of Georgia sports media and visual journalism students, it’s reality. Seventeen students, accompanied by three faculty members, will cover World Cup group-play matches in July and early August for The Associated Press. AP […]
Students to work on WWII documentary production crew in France
Grady College students will work side by side with documentarians in the field under an exciting new experiential learning partnership with the World War II Foundation. Five Grady College students and Sanghoon Lee of the MFA Film, Television and Digital Media faculty will travel to France this summer to serve as production assistants for a […]
Lynsey Addario named recipient of the 2023 McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage
Lynsey Addario has been named the recipient of the 2023 McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage, awarded by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Addario is an American photojournalist who has been covering conflict, humanitarian crises and women’s issues around the Middle East and Africa on assignment for The New York […]
Spring 2023 Grady College Graduates celebrate at Convocation
Spring 2023 Grady College graduates were celebrated by family, friends, faculty and staff at a Convocation ceremony May 10, 2023, at the Athens Classic Center. More than 450 graduate and undergraduate students are graduating from the College this semester including more than 50 Ph.D. and Master’s students, nearly 100 advertising students, nearly 90 from the […]