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Gracie Blount, a junior advertising major, was selected as one of three U.S. students to participate in the Roger Hatchuel Student Academy at the 2020 Cannes Lions Festival. Due to COVID-19, this year’s festival has been canceled, but participants are invited to be a part of the Academy next year. The Roger Hatchuel Student Academy […]

Grady College is proud to announce Austin Gibbons, a senior from Stone Mountain, Georgia, is the recipient of the 2020 George M. Abney Honors Award. Gibbons will graduate in May with majors in public relations and political science. The Abney award is presented by Grady College annually to the senior who has achieved the most […]

Grady EMST students  won four statewide awards at the Georgia Communication Association sponsored 2020 Student Film Festival.    To honor award recipients, an awards dinner and ceremony took place on Friday, Feb. 21, at the GCA 90th Annual Convention at Georgia Highlands College in Cartersville, Georgia.  Among the winners, Kiana Washington won first place for her documentary, “Breaking […]

Grady College asked news managers with experience in local and national media how outlets should cover the coronavirus pandemic. Bob Furnad is 50-year veteran in broadcast news production and management with ABC and CNN among others on his resume. He served as president of CNN Headline News before retiring He also was a visiting associate […]

What are you passionate about? I am passionate about the beauty of togetherness and vulnerability that comes from pursuing creativity. I am passionate about creative collaboration. I am passionate about the ability we have to bring a story into the life and imagination of cinema, poetry, writing, and the way that brings comfort, newness, and […]

This story first published in its entirety at news.uga.edu. As a Visitors Center tour guide and ISL world leader, Lillie Russell has welcomed hundreds of new students to UGA and showed them all the possibilities for growth and how to empower them in their next steps. Hometown: Woodstock, Georgia High school: Etowah High School Current […]

Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, director of Grady College’s Games and Virtual Environments Lab and an associate professor of advertising, has been named co-editor of the journal “Media Psychology” beginning fall 2020. Ahn joins Benjamin Johnson from the University of Florida, Marina Krcmar from Wake Forest University and Leonard Reinecke from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, […]

Editor’s note: this feature originally appeared on the UGA Today website. Vicki Michaelis, John Huland Carmical Chair in Sports Journalism & Society in Grady College, spent more than 20 years as a sports journalist, the last 12 as the lead Olympics reporter for USA Today. Since 2012 she has taught at the University of Georgia […]

  The Grady College’s Charlotte Norsworthy was recently awarded two industry scholarships in recognition of academic achievements related to media technology and innovation. PILOT, an innovation initiative of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), awarded Norsworthy a $5,000 scholarship and the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) presented her with one of its $3,000 Abe Voron scholarships, […]

Don Sylvester (ABJ ’75) recently won the Oscar for sound editing on “Ford v Ferrari.” He joined Dayne Young and Jay Hamilton, Grady’s entertainment and media studies department head, on “Grady College Conversations” to discuss the intricacies of film sound editing, the awards season for “Ford v Ferrari” and his time as a student at […]