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Kayla West is a fourth year Entertainment and Media Studies major with a minor in sociology and certificates in New Media and Personal and Organizational Leadership. She is from Suwanee, Georgia. West serves as an ambassador for Grady College, a manager for Women in Media, a co-chair for the National Council of Negro Women and […]

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Alumni Awards, recognizing alumni who have established a tradition of service and achievement in their careers. Recipients this year include: The John E. Drewry Young Alumni Award will be presented to Sarah Karges (ABJ ’15), senior vice president, Performance […]

Ivan Mendoza is a second year advertising major with minors in criminal justice and film studies from Powder Springs, Georgia set to graduate in May 2028. Mendoza is the president of Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity as well as the founder of the La Unidad Latina Book Club and Leer es una Libertad. Mendoza is also […]

January is National Mentoring Month, a prime time for UGA students to commit to further their professional career by connecting with a mentor. The traditional one-on-one UGA Mentor Program may not work for everyone, which is one of the reasons UGA Circles of Success were created. Circles of Success invite students to join a small […]

Grady College journalism students and faculty were represented on the international stage in November when the JournalismAI Innovation Challenge project they worked on was featured in a documentary. The program was supported by the Google News Initiative. The short film premiered at the JournalismAI Festival in London and featured Amanda Bright, clinical associate professor and […]

The MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program wrapped up a weeklong residency Jan. 4-9 at Grady College. Students in the sessions heard from both MFA faculty as well as a lineup of stellar journalists and authors. Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Kevin Sack, author of “Mother Emanuel,” spoke of how he was able to gain the trust […]

“Signing Tony Raymond,” a film written, directed and produced by Glen Owen (ABJ ’90), a UGA alumnus and current MFA Narrative Media student, will have its national premiere on Jan. 16, 2026. Set with a script he originally drafted nearly 15 years ago, Owen is proud of this independent film that was funded, filmed and […]

Tamlin Hall, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, director, producer, educator and non-profit founder, has been named the new director of the University of Georgia Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television and Digital Media. Hall has written, directed and produced numerous films; serves as a mentor in the UGA Low-residency MFA Narrative Nonfiction program in the […]

This past summer, public relations student, Brigette Ramirez, interned for Grady alumnus, Jeremy Friedman (ABJ ’96), at Outlyr in Dallas, Texas. Following is an interview with Ramirez and Friedman about the internship. Friedman is the the vice president of public relations and communications at Outlyr, a global sports marketing agency that manages multiple professional sporting […]

The Cox Institute’s leadership program, which is 14 years old this year, has added a new immersive exercise to its training. Each of the 10 Levin Leaders are responsible for interviewing a news industry leader and turning the conversation into an episode of the Cox Institute’s award-winning podcast series, The Lead. The new episodes will […]